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Task 3 Which of these ideas about the Internet are good J or bad L?

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The Internet

Pre-reading task: Decide whether the sentences are true (T J) of false (F L): 1) The Internet first started in the USA. 2) The Internet and WWW are different. 3) Berners-Lee invented the Internet. 4) One file on the WWW can have two or more addresses. 5) There were 40 million Internet users at the beginning of the 21 century. Now read the text and check your ideas.    

THE INTERNET originated in the early 1970s when the United States wanted to make sure that people could communicate after a nuclear war. This needed a free and independent communication network without a centre and it led to a network of computers that could send each other e-mails through cyberspace.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) when he discovered a way to jump to different files on his computer using the random, or unplanned, links between them. He then wrote a simple coding system, called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), to create linksto files on any computer connected to the network. That was possible because each file fad an individual address, or URL (Uniform Resource Locator). He then used a set of transfer rules, called HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), to link Web files together across the Internet. Berners-Lee also invented the world’s first browser. This lets you locate and view Web pages and also navigate from one link to another.

The WWW became available to everyone in 1991 and the number of Internet users grew from 600,000 to 40,000,000 in five years. Today that number is much larger and there are now many browsers that provide Web pages, information and other services. You can also do research, download music files, play interactive games, shop, talk in chat rooms, send and receive e-mal etc. on the WWW.


Task 1 Find the correct word or abbreviation in the text:

1) An address for Web pages - _______________

2) A coding system that creates links - ______________________

3) This finds and shows Web pages - ___________________

4) Rules for transferring files - __________________

5) A group of computers linked together - ___________________

 

Task 2 Complete the sentences with thehighlighted words from the text:

1) Some people spend too much time playing ________________ games on the Internet.

2) You can sometimes have a computer ________________ that is not connected to the Internet.

3) It is easy to ___________ around a screen with a mouse.

4) Berners-Lee discovered how to ____________ links between computers in new ways.

5) Some people surf the Internet at ___________________, just to see what they can find.

6) People use the Internet to _______________ information from one place to another.

7) When you surf the Internet, you are travelling in ___________________.

 

Task 3 Which of these ideas about the Internet are good J or bad L?

- Independent

- World wide

- Cheap to use

- Expensive to buy computers



- The information may not be true or correct

- Spend too much time playing games

- Talking in chat rooms

- Make new friends

- Visit many interesting websites

- Wait for a long time to download Web pages


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