Ex.5. Discuss the following in small groups

1. How much is a packet of cigarettes in your country?
2. What sort of health warnings are there?
3. Do tobacco companies sponsor any sports events?
4. Why is it that drugs such as nicotine and alcohol are legal in many countries, while other drugs are illegal?
5. Do you think smoking should be banned in all public places? Or, should smokers be allowed to smoke when and where they want?
6. Have attitudes to smoking changed in your country over the past few years? How? Do as many people smoke?

Ex.6. Give a short summary of the text.

Learning recommendations:

Class activity: In this unit of the course book students are supposed to get introduced with the new material: read the text, translate into their native language, summarize in English, complete post-reading tasks and grammar exercises, discuss new speech topics, compose monologues and dialogues in the class.

Home task: Students are assigned to find out additional short information about specific topic of the unit, complete grammar exercises, prepare reports given by the teacher.

Literature:

1. Учебно-методический комплекс для студентов 1 курса неязыковых специальностей, М.Ж. Тусупбекова, А.М. Мухтарханова, 2008, Астана, _____стр.

UNIT 8.

INTERNET AND ITS GREAT POSSIBILITIES

Text: The Introduction to the WWW and the Internet.

Grammar: Revision.

Практические цели: ознакомление с новыми технологиями всемирной сети Интернет и его значение. Формирование устной речи с извлечением основной информации. Закрепление грамматического материала.

The Introduction to the WWW and the Internet.

Millions of people round the world use the Internet to search for and retrieve information on all sorts of topics in a wide variety of areas including the arts, business, government, humanities, news, politics and recreation. People communicate through electronic mail (e-mail), discussion groups, chat channels and other means of information exchange. They share information and make commercial and business transactions. All this activity is possible because tens of thousands of networks are connected to the Internet and exchange information in the same basic ways.

The World Wide Web is a part of the Internet. But it is not a collection of networks. Rather, it is information that is connected or linked together like a web. You access this information through one interface or tool called a Web browser. The number of resource and services that are part of the World Wide Web is growing extremely fast. In 1996 there were more than 20 million users of the WWW. By using a computer terminal (hardware) connected to a network that is a part of the Internet, and by using a program (software) to browse or retrieve information that is a part of the WWW, the people connected to the Internet and WWW through the local providers access to a variety of information. Each browser provides graphical interface. You move from place to place, from site to site on the WWW, by using a mouse to click on a portion of text icon or region of a map. This item are called hyperlinks or links. Each link you select represents a document, an image, a video clip or audio file somewhere on the Internet. The user doesn't need to know where it is, the browser follows the link.

All sort of things are available on the WWW. One can use Internet for recreational purposes. Many TV and radio stations broadcast live on the WWW. Essentially, if something can be put into digital format and stored in computer, then its available on the WWW. You can even visit museums, gardens, cities through out the World, learn foreign language and meet new friends. And, of course, you can play computer games through WWW, competing with partners from other countries continents.

Just a little bit of exploring the WWW will show you what a lot of use and fun it is.