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D.Translate these terms and expressions into your own language. Use a dictionary or the Internet to help you




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Solve the clues and complete the puzzle. Look at Units 10-12 to help you.

Vocabulary revision

E. You have received a text from a friend at a computer show. Write a short reply.

C. Listen again and answer these questions.

B. Listen again and tick () which features the salesperson mentions for each device.

Describing flash drives

B. Choose the correct word in brackets to complete this description of a digital voice recorder. Use a dictionary to help you.

A. Look at the Help box and then, using affixation, conversation and compounding try to make as many words as you can from blog, mail and print. Use a dictionary and the Internet to help you.

C. Find words or phrases in the text with the following meanings.

B. Read the whole text and answer these questions.

1. What is flash memory?

2. What are the differences between RAM memory and flash memory?

3. What can devices which use multi-level cell technology do?

4. What are the differences between flash drives and external hard drives?

5. What is the advantage of using U3 technology in flash drives?

6. How much data memory card hold?

7. What is the name of the flash card created by Sony for its digital cameras?

 

 

1. permanent; able to hold data without power (lines 1-5) ____

2. able to be rewritten many times (lines 10-15) ____

3. different sections of a disk drive or storage area (lines 40-45) ____

4. to make a copy of a file so that the original is not lost (lines 45-50) ____

5. transferred to another device (lines 60-65) ____

6. a peripheral device that reads and writes flash memory cards (lines 60-65) ____

7. a product that integrates two different technologies (lines 65-70) ____

3 Language work: word building

blog mail print
Blogger (is a person who writes a blog) To mail (the verb form) Printout (the pages produced by the printer)

 

 

A. Listen to a salesperson at his stand at a consumer electronics show describing two flash products to a potential customer. Which product (a or b) is the visitor most interested in?

a. The Dragon flash drive

b. The Dragon MP4 player

 

 

1. What is the storage capacity of the Dragon flash drive?

2. How do you connect it to the computer?

3. According to the salesperson, what are the advantages of a USB flash drive over a DVD or an external hard drive?

4. Some portable media players are also known as MP4 players. Why?

5. What is the screen size of the Dragon MP4 player?

6. How long does the battery last?

 

 

An MP4 player

 

USB drives are typically designed

to attach to a key ring,

such as the Cruzer Freedom

USB flash drive

 

D. In pairs, choose a flash-based device that you own and describe it. Use the Useful language box and the features and questions from the listening text to help you.

 

4 Thousandth of a second, abbreviated to ms, used to measure the access time of hard drives.

6 Floating gate transistors are called ____ in flash memory technology.

7 Prefix meaning very large or one thousand million.

11 Acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.

12 Capable of being deleted.

1 Concentric ring on the surface of a disc when the disc is formatted.

2 ____ memory retains its data when the power is switched off.

3 CD-RW means Compact Disc ____.

5 Abbreviation of digital versatile disc.

8 To write information on a disc or storage area.

9 Type of external bus or connector that plugs into the computer.

10 The physical mechanism that accepts reads and writes data on a disk.

 

UNIT12 THE OPERATING SYSTEM (OS)

 

1. user interface (line 1) ____

2. procedures (line 2) ____

3. commands (line 6) ____

4. tools (line 16) ____

5. desktop (line 21) ____

6. nested folders (line 25) ____

7. launch a program (line 26) ____

8. source code (line 45) ____

E. Label the interface features (a-j) on the screenshot of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system with words in bold from this list.

· desktop: the background screen that displays icons and folders

· window: a scrollable viewing area on screen; it can contain files or folders

· icon: a picture representing an object; for example, a document, folder or hard drive icon

· folder: a directory that holds data, programs and other folders

· menu bar: a row of words that open up menus when selected

· drop-down (pull-down) menu: a list of options that appears below a menu item when selected

· scroll bar: a horizontal or vertical bar that is clicked and dragged in the desired direction

· dock: set of icons at the bottom of the screen that give you access to the things you use most

 

 




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