Task VI. Define the odd words

to connect, to communicate, to socialize, to chat, to exert

to search, to transmit, to retrieve, to seek

equipment, tools, devices, backbone, facilities

to transfer, to transmit, to operate, to send, to post

compact, fast, inexpensive, wealthy, cost effective

Task VII. Answer the questions on the text:

1. What are telecommunication services?
2. What is the key and engine of the progress?
3. Why are all types of telecommunications under the permanent developing?
4. What does the revolution in manufacture, accumulation, treatment begin with?
5. What is the backbone of modern communications?
6. Are the telephones a part of infrastructure?
7. What will the losses from lower prices be countered by?
8. Is it easy to predict steps in telecommunication development?

Task VIII. Read and translate the following sentences, paying attention to the use of Complex Subject.

1. Electronics is known to be a very young science. 2. The application of electronics in everyday life and industry has proved to increase enormously in the last few years. 3.Electronics is believed to begin when the valve was invented. 4. Electronic equipment is known to have already been applied at the beginning of the century. 5. Electronics is sure to find an ever growing application.