- What are some ideas on how to assign household chores in a family? Should parents give money to their children as a reward?
- Listen to the conversation and answer the
questions. Press the "Final Score" button to check your quiz.
- Listen to the conversation again as you read the Quiz Script.
As we saw in class, we have different ways to describe functions in English:
- ROM holds intructions which are needed to start up the computer.
- ROM is used to hold /is used for holding instructions which are needed to start up the computer.
- The function of ROM is to hold instructions which are needed to start up the computer.
Here you have some examples:
- A scanner is used for inputting text and graphics.
- A printer is used to print out data from a computer.
- An ATM (automated teller machine) provides cash and account information to bank customers on account of a swipe card.
- A PDA is used to store information such as appointments.
- The function of a hard disk drive is to store programs and data.
- A supercomputer is used to process quickly very large amounts of information, for example in a government department or a university.
- A mainframe computer is used for processing large amounts of data such as a major company's accounts and client database.
- Barcodes provide computer-readable information on a product so that it can be identified and priced automatically.
- Swipe cards are used to provide a secure means of identifying authorised users of many different facilities such as banks, libraries and computer labs.
- The function of memory is to hold the instructions and data used by the processor.
- If you need some information about prepositions of place read THIS.
- And you can do an online EXERCISE, too.
- Finally, you have an easy activity on Places HERE.
- Listen to PART 1 of a discussion about digital and conventional cameras and find the similarities and differences between them.
- Now listen to PART 2 and list the disadvantages of digital cameras.
(source: Oxford English for Information Technology Second Edition, Eric H. Glendinning & John McEwan)
