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Informatic corner: some interesting facts about computers
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INFORMATIC CORNER: some interesting facts about computers
1) The first electronic computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.
2) Only about 10% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers.
3) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters only in one row of the keyboard of your computer.
4) Doug Engelbart invented the first computer mouse in around 1964 which was made of wood.
5) There are more than 500 new computer viruses are released every month.
6) HP, Microsoft and Apple have one very interesting thing in common – they were all started in garage.
7) An average person normally blinks 20 times a minute, but when using a computer, he/she blinks only 7 times a minute.
8) The first even hard disc drive was made in 1979, and could hold only 5 MB of data.
9) The house where Bill Gates lives, was designed us-ing a Machintosh computer.
10) The original name of windows was Interface Manager.
UNIT 6. CHRISTMAS
1. Read and translate the text
MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS
For me, Christmas always began in the middle of the cold, windy month of November. My sister, Alison, and I sat down in front of the fire and wrote a letter to Father Christmas telling him about all the presents we wanted. We solemnly addressed our letters to Father Christmas, the North Pole, before sending them up the chimney.
With December our excitement grew each day – as we opened the advent calendar, Christmas cards arrived in the post, the nativity play at our school, Christmas lights in the streets, the town carol service. And of course snow everywhere. Enough snow to make a snowmen, build igloos and to have glorious snowball fights in the school playground.
On Christmas Eve, the whole family helped to decorate the house, put up the Christmas tree and the decorations and blow up the balloons. Then, when Auntie Kathleen and my two cousins arrived, everything was ready. Before we went to bed, we left some brandy and mince pies for Father Christmas and then put our stockings at the end of our beds. We tried to stay awake as long as possible to see Father Christmas but the next thing we knew it was morning. Christmas morning!
At the bottom of our bed was the stocking, now full of all kinds of small presents and sweets, and at the bottom a chocolate sixpence and a tangerine. Christmas morning was bright and sunny and, after church, my cousin David and I went out into the garden to play with our new presents. Lunch was always late, but what a lunch! Roast turkey with all the vegetables followed by Christmas pudding and brandy butter. When we pulled the crackers, the dog barked: we took out the plastic toys, laughed at the jokes, put on silly paper hats and laughed again.
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After lunch, the adults slept on the sofas on front of the Queen’s speech on television while we all played cards. Then we had tea, with a huge Christmas cake covered with snowmen and polar bears. It didn’t seem possible, but we carried on eating. By bedtime all of the children were exhausted. As soon as we turned off the light, we all fell into a deep, contented sleep.
2. In what order did the children do these things?
a) act in the school nativity play
b) put their stockings at the end of the bed
c) pull the crackers
d) write a letter to Father Christmas
e) put up the Christmas tree
f) go to church
g) have Christmas cake
3. Now answer the multiple-choice questions
1) Who do you think reads the children’s letters?
a) Father Christmas b) their parents c) nobody
2) What do you think people do in a carol service?
a) sing songs b) give presents c) watch a play
3) What happened on Christmas Eve?
a) The writer stayed awake all night.
b) Someone put presents in his stocking.
c) The writer saw Father Christmas.
4) Why did they laugh?
a) The dog barked at the crackers.
b) The toy and hats were funny.
c) The jokes and hats were funny.
5) After lunch:
a) the adults watched the Queen’s speech.
b) the children made a snowman.
c) everybody has more to eat.
4. Complete the sentences with these verbs in the correct form. Blow up, pull, go to, put up, have (2), make, put on
On Christmas Eve, my grandparents arrived. We _______a
snow man in the garden and later we _____________the decorations.
I __________lots of balloons. On Christmas morning, I
__________some warm clothes and ___________a snowball fight
with my cousins and then we _________church. After that, we
______________lunch and _________the crackers.
5. Read and translate
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