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Task 12. Answer the questions
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1. What is e-mail for you? How often do you use it?
2. Do you imagine you life without the e-mail?
3. What major problems are there with the e-mail?
4. Are they opinions or facts?
5. Would it be a problem for you?
6. What do you think is the reason for the various bits of netiquette which are mentioned?
7. What is a flame? Have you ever been the target of the flame?
8. Is e-mail secure? How to make it so?
Task 13. For which of the following types of writing is it necessary to be brief?
Instructions, love letters, news reports, business proposals, faxes, adverts, insurance claims, curriculum vitae, short stories, scientific reports, e-mail, poems.
Task 14. Complete these common phrases:
| AAMOF | as a m… of f… |
| AFAIK | as f… as I k… |
| FYI | for your i… |
| FYA | f… y… am… |
| IMO | in my o… |
| IOW | in o… words |
| NRN | not r… necessary |
| TTYL | talk to y… l… |
| FAQ | f… a… question(s) |
| BTW | by t… w… |
| LOL KHYF | la… o… loud k… ho… y… fe… |
| IMHO | in my h… o… |
| WYSIWYG | what y… see is w… y… g… |
| RTFM | read the f… m… |
Task 15. Study the following information and dictate the e-mail address to your partner.
E-mail messages usually have the following format:
To: (Name and e-mail address of recipient)
From: (Name and e-mail address of sender)
Subject: (Identification of main point of message)
Here is an example of an e-mail address:
Note that the symbol @ in e-mail address is read at that the full stops are read as dot. Thus the example address would be read as Smith at C – U – P dot A – C dot U – K.
The ac.uk in the example address tells you that the address is based at a university in the United Kingdom.
Do you know anyone with an e-mail address? If so, dictate it to other students in the class. If not, then your teacher will give you some addresses for dictation.
Task 16. E-mailers make use of symbols called smileys (or emoticons) which can be written using standard letters and signs.
:-) Your basic smiley. This is used to mean I’m happy.
;-) Winking smiley. I’m flirting or being ironic.
;-(Frowning smiley. I did not like something.
:-| I’m indifferent.
8-) I wear glasses.
:-{) I have a moustache.
:-˜) I have a cold.
C=:ˆ) Head cook, chef-de-cuisine.
Q:ˆ) Soldier, man with beret, boy scout.
*:O) Clown face; I’m feeling like a buffoon.
:ˆ9 Licking the lips; very tasty or delicious.
ËËËËËË O: >˜ Snake (or to rake someone over the coals)
Match these smileys to their meanings listed below:
%-) (-: |-|:-Q:-@:-D <:-| (:) [:-)
1. I’m a dunce.
2. I’m an egghead.
3. I’m asleep.
4. I’m laughing.
5. I’m left-handed.
6. I’m screaming.
7. I’m wearing a Walkman.
8. I’m sticking my tongue out at you.
9. I’ve been staring at this screen for too long.
Task 17. Discuss the following questions:
1. Do faxes, electronic mail and papers offer an escape from human interaction?
2. Could all these topography symbols such as e-smiles supplant the more emotive ingredients of two-way communication?
3. How can we balance the use of technology and real-life conversation?
GRAMMAR REVIEW
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