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1.1 Read and memorize the words

- significant

- amazing

- achievement

- to count

- to create

- to design

- to construct

- inventor

- capability

- to penetrate

- society

- to increase

1.2 Read and translate the text

The educated man of 200 years ago did not need to know anything about science. The educated man of 25 — 30 years ago did not need to know anything about computers. But the educated man of today needs to have some significant knowledge of science and a little significant knowledge about computers.

The computer is no doubt the most amazing achieve­ment of mankind. It is a date storage system created by man. A human tells the machine what to do, when to do it and how it should be done.

The word computer comes from a Latin word which means to count.

In 1833 an English inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage, professor of Cambridge University designed the first computer. The mathematical programme for his ma­chine had been composed by Lord Byron's daughter.

The first programmer computer which operated success­fully was built in 1939 by H. H. Aiken, professor of Harward University.

In our country the first electronic digital computer MACM was constructed by the Ukrainian Academician S. O. Lebedev in 1950.

Such computers as BESM, Minsk, Ural, Razdan-3, M-20, M-220, Nairi-3, Strela, Dniepr were created in our country.

Nowadays computers greatly increase man's thinking capabilities of planning, analyzing, computing and con trolling. Hundreds of computers are already in daily use. They penetrate almost into all spheres of our modern so­ciety.

1.3 Answer the questions

- What does the educated man of today needs to know?

- Is computer the most amazing achievements of mankind?

- What does the word “computer” mean?

- Who designed the first computer?

- When was the first electronic digital computer constructed in Ukraine?

1.4 Read and translate the international words

System, machine, computer, mathematician, professor, programme, electronic, academician, planning, analyzing, controlling, sphere.

1.5 Agree or disagree with the statements

- Our life is impossible without modern inventions

- Computers have changed the way of our life

- Computer makes our life easier and more comfortable

- We can get all the information we need only through the computers

- Computers can do many things we do, but slower and worse. Everything should be in measure

1.6 Conversation

- Do you have a computer at home?(or Does your friend have)

- What company is you computer produced by?

- Who taught you to use a computer?

- Do you use computer when you do your homework?

- Have you ever studied English using your computer?

1.7 Fill in the gasps using the necessary words:

Early computers were very big and (1)________ to use and only a few people understood them. It weighed about 3 (2)______ and it was nearly 2 meters tall and 3 meters wide. Those (3)______ costed millions of dollars and only few big companies had them. It is still in the Seience Museum today.

The rapidly advancing field of (4)_______ led to construction of the first general - purpose electronic computer in 1946 at the (5)_______ of Pennsylvania. It was ENIAC, computers contained 18000 vacuum (6)______ and had a speed of several hundred multiplications per (7)______.

Later (8)_______ appeared. The (9)______ of the transistor in computers began In the late 1950s. It marked the (10)______ of smaller, faster elements than it was possible to (11)_______ with the use of vacuum - tube machines.

1.8 Dramatize the dialogue. And say what have you learned from it.

- Today I’ve learned very intresting information.

+ What is it?

- It is the science of museum.

+ Really? Where is it? I have never heard about it?

- It is in Great Britain. I saw it on TV.

+ And what is it famous for?

- The first computer invented by Charles Babbage in 1833 is still in the museum. It is Very big. It occupies the whole room. It was necessary to use a ladder in order to operate it. Do you know the size of the first computer?

+ I do not remember exactly but I know that it was hyge.

- Surely. It was 2 metres tall and 3 metres wide.

+ Oh, it is really intresting. Nothing in common with modern computer.

Exercise 11. Arrange the following words in alphabetic order.

Calculations, human being, count, abacus, divide, multiply, vacuum tube, slide rule, digital computer, transistor, moving stones, numbers, industrial age, washing machine.

Exercise 12. Divide the following words into two groups: nouns and verbs. Translate them.

Communicate, communication, calculate, calculation, travel, invent, invention, number, count, imagine, imagination, machine, device, generation, mathematician, produce, production.

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