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“What is a browser?” “What is a browser?” was the question the interviewers asked over 50 passers-by of different ages and backgrounds in the Times Square in New York. Watch the many responses people came up with. 1. Reproduce the right response. Count up how many correct responses were among them! 2. Fix the main misconceptions of a browser and try to explain why people have them. 3. Count up the percentage of right answers among 50 respondents in the video. 4. Ask 8-10 people out of your class to answer the same question on the spot. Summarize the results in your group. Count up the percentage of right answers among your respondents. 5. Are people around you more aware of these Internet technologies? Read and Talk Picking an Internet Service Provider
Practice the conversation. − I need to have an Internet connection set up in my new home. Which is a good ISP to sign up with? Activity: Compare ISPs These are short characteristics of ISPs chosen by compuTalk forum members to compare.
ISP: AT@TSPEED: 1.5 Mbps COMMENTS: I know I don’t have the fastest connection, but it suits my needs. Downloading an ISO CD file doesn’t take long (about half an hour to an hour).
ISP: Tista onlineSPEED: 21kbps COMMENTS: Very slow and very cheap. It is dial up…I pay only $7 for that
ISP: DC.lvSPEED: 60kb/s COMMENTS: Very cheap, but not very fast and not so reliable at all…
ISP: Rogers CableSPEED: 128kbps COMMENTS: Very slow, and my parent’s are too cheap to get the faster plans. www.computalk.com Make a top-list of the ISPs, ordering the best first and the worst last. If you need additional info – go Google! Practice Translation
Going online with an ISP There are many ways to use a computer to access the Internet. On-line organizations such as America On-line or Compuserve offer connection as well as many other services like magazines, chat areas and information retrieval and storage. Some Internet Service Providers only offer dial-up or cable connections to the Internet. Usually, their services may cost more if charged by the minute or by the amounts of traffic but on the other hand ISPs can offer annual fees and those services are cheaper. Well, if you don't have a computer and a modem (or a motherboard netcard), get one. Your computer can act as a terminal, and you can use an ordinary telephone line to connect to an Internet-linked machine. If you're on a campus, your university may have direct "dedicated access" to high-speed Internet TCP/IP lines. Apply for an Internet account on a dedicated campus machine, and you may be able to get those long-distance computing and file-transfer functions. Some cities, such as Cleveland, supply "freenet" community access. Businesses increasingly have Internet access, and are willing to sell it to subscribers. The standard fee is about $40 a month -- about the same as TV cable service. Questions: 1) How does one get connected to the Internet? 2) What services do ISP offer their customers? 3) How can one get access on a campus? Provide a written translation of the text into Russian. Activity: Exploring your local ISP market Find most popular ISP in your area on the Internet and answer the questions: · How many ISPs are there in your area? · Which of them provide the cheapest/most expensive/most reliable connection? · What services do they offer? · How much does the access to the Internet cost on average throughout your area? · Is it the same in the capital/province? Provide a short printable report for your research results in document format. Read and Talk ISP and TCP/IP
2. Practice the conversation.
3. Read the text and prepare a summary. Internet Software The language used for data transfer on the Internet is known as TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol). This is like the Internet operating system. The first program you need is a PPP (point to point protocol) driver. This piece of software allows the TCP/IP system to work with your modem; it dials up your Internet service provider (ISP), transmits your password and log-in name and allows Internet programs to operate.
Web browsers The Web is a hypertext-based system where you can find news, pics, games, online shopping, virtual museums, e-magazines - any topic you can imagine. We navigate through the Web using an application called a browser, which allows you to search and print Web pages. You can click on keywords, buttons or links that take you to other destinations on the net and allow to retrieve other documents - texts, images, video and other content. This is possible because browsers understand hypertext markup language (HTML), a set of tags, that allow the browser to format and display the content of a page. Browsers get documents via HTTP, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which is different from FTP: it is used for retrieving inter-linked resources in the World Wide Web. FTP is another kind of transferring information over the net. It means "file transfer protocol" and is the technical side of how the files are transferred. With FTP you can copy programs, games, images and video from the hard disk of a remote computer to your own hard disk. This utility is built into most Web browsers, but for more advanced needs (uploading sites, for example) you might use special applications - file managers.
What is TCP/IP and how does it work? Have fun Date: 2015-12-24; view: 921
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−I signed up with an ISP, and they sent me the dial-up service guide. How do I get on-line?