A) Open your vocabularies and write down the new words. Use your dictionaries.

A) Open your vocabularies and write down the new words. Use your dictionaries.

(Презентація 1, слайди 1-16)

1. input unit
2. CPU (central processing unit)
3. output unit
4. keyboard
5. mouse
6. floppy disk
7. computer disk
8. ROM (read-only memory)
9. RAM (random-access memory)
10. VDU (visual display unit)
11. Printer
12. Modem
13. The Internet
14. World Wide Web
15. Hypertext

B) Grammar

Choose the correct words to complete the text, a, b, c, or d.

THE MICROCHIP

If we (1) _ have microchips, we (2) _ have calculators, computers or laptops. These tiny chips are also called ‘integral circuit’ and they store huge amount of (3) _.

The American Jack Kilby is considered the (4) _ of the microchip. He won the Nobel Prize for (5) _ in the year 2000 but actually created the first microchip as early as 1958.

The structures on microchips have become smaller and smaller.

They are now the size of atoms. There are almost a billion transistors on each square centimeter. If this technology didn’t (6) __, we would be (7) __ to use everyday objects like mobile phones and microwave ovens.

1. a) wouldn’t b) hasn’t c) don’t I didn’t

2. a) don’t b) wouldn’t c) won’t I would

3. a) informations b) inform c) information d) informs

4. a) inventor b) inventive c) invention d) inventing

5. a) Physicist b) Physical c) Physics d)Physically

6. a) exists b) existing c) existed d)exist

7. a) can b) able c) could d)would

Keys: 1d, 2b, 3c, 4a, 5c, 6d, 7b.