Protecting Information on a Floppy Disk

Labeling and Caring for a Floppy Disk

UNIT V

1. Translate the following words with the dictionary. Learn the words:

safe place write-protect tab

dust to protect

moisture to change

magnetic fields to slide

to label to reveal

to identify the write-protect hole

to stick to remove

exposed area to replace

soft permanently

to damage to prevent

write protect notch accidentally

2. Read and translate texts:

Store floppy disks in a safe place, away from dust, moisture, magnetic fields (such as televisions, speakers, and computer monitors), and extreme temperatures. Label each floppy disk so that you can identify the information stored on it. Place the label on the front of the disk, at the top, so that the label does not stick to any exposed areas on the disk.

A 3.5-inch disk can be write-protected by sliding a built in tab over to reveal the write-protect hole.

To store information on a write-protected disk, you must slide the tab back over the write-protect hole on 3.5-inch disks. When you are finished working with a write-protected disk, it is recommended that you replace the write-protect tab. Disks that contain important information can be write-protected. This means you can read from but not write to the disk, making it impossible to write accidentally over information. Your disks can be write-protected –instructions are included in each box of disks.

If a floppy disk does not have a write-protect notch or hole it is permanently write-protected. Many software manufacturers put their products on such disks to prevent the information on the disks from being changed or deleted accidentally.

3. Find sentences with the Imperative Mood in the texts. Make them in Indicative Mood.

4. Translate the following word-combinations with unions and prepositions using the words from the right columns:

а) в файле, системе, команде in 1. keyboard

б) для системы, файла, команды on 2.printer

в) на дисководе, принтере, клавиатуре from 3.memory

г) вне памяти, системы out of 4. program

д) из памяти, с принтера, с клавиатуры with 5.command

е) с клавиатурой, принтером before 6. system

ж) до предупреждения, программы during 7. warning

з) во время предупреждения, программы or 8. directory

и) принтер или клавиатура and 9. file

к) файл или директория for 10. drive

л) дисковод и память to

м) команда и программа

н) для команды, системы

о) к принтеру, клавиатуре, команде

UNIT VI

1. Read and learn the new words:

to prepare – готовить

to find (found, found) – находить

care – забота, мера предосторожности

careful – осторожный, тщательный

to check – контролировать, проверять

recoverable – восстановимый

2. Read and translate texts:

Inserting and Removing a Floppy Disk

The following illustration shows you how to insert a 5.25-inch floppy disk into a horizontal disk drive. Some floppy disk drives that use 5.25-inch floppy disks have a lever that you need to push down or to the side after inserting the floppy disk. When you are finished working with the disk, lift up the drive lever and take out the disk.

To insert a 3.5-inch floppy disk, slide it into the disk drive until you hear a click. When you are finished using the disk, press the button on the front of the drive. The disk pops out so that you can remove it easily.

Inserting a 5.25-inch disk into a drive

Preparing Disk to Hold Information

Blank disks can be used to store your own information and programs, but these disks must be formatted before they can be used.

If you have a new disk that has never been used, you must prepare it for storing information. You do this by running a program that formats the disk so that MS-DOS can find information on it. When you format a disk, MS-DOS also checks the disk for defects.

Be very careful when formatting disks. Formatting a disk deletes any information that was stored on the disk, and this information may not be recoverable.

3. Translate the following words into English (learn 3 forms of irregular verbs):

показывать форматировать

вставлять диск проверять

дисковод хранение информации

рычажок вытаскивать

повернуть вниз или в сторону дефект

толкать удалять информацию

щелчок быть осторожным

невосстановимый легко

4. Explain grammar forms:

The illustration shows you ….

Some floppy disk drives have a lever ….

When you are finished working ….

To insert 3.5 inch floppy disk ….

You have a new disk ….

You have to prepare it ….

Any information was stored on a disk …

5. Say:

- how to insert 5.25 inch floppy disk into disk drive;

- how to insert 3.5 inch floppy disk into disk drive;

- how you must prepare a new floppy disk for storing information;

- why one must be very careful when format a disk.

6. Give definitions to the following using the vocabulary:

1) Floppy disk;

2) Hard disk;

3) RAM.

7. Speak about disk and disk and disk drives using texts in units IV, V, VI.

UNIT VII

1. Read and learn the new words:

decision — решение

device — устройство

instruction — команда

intelligence — разум

manner — манера, способ

microwave — микроволновая

purpose — цель

raw [ro:] — необработанный; сырой

to come to life — оживать

to convert — превращать; преобразовывать

to create – создавать

to evaluate — оценивать

to refine — очищать

to respond — отвечать

transmission — передача

various – различные

2. Look at the picture. Name the parts of the hardware. Fill in the table with the missing terms:

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