Exercise 2. Maybe we can find it on the Internet.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 592.
UNIT 16 FACES OF THE INTERNET
Exercise 1.Try to answer these questions.
1. What is the Internet?
2. What can you do on the Internet?
Make a list of possible applications.
3. How has the Internet changed the way people study/work/live?
4. Do you think the Internet will have an important influence on your daily life in future?
A program like Microsoft Internet Explorer allows you to search view and manage information over the Web.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/
| Words | Meanings |
| online | using an Internet service |
| browse | go from place to place and look around |
| web browser | a service that helps you travel on the Internet |
| search engine | a service that helps you look for something specific on the Internet |
| World Wide Web | a part of the Internet where you find most of what you are looking for |
| web site | a location or destination on the Internet |
| web page | one screen, or “page”, of information on a web site |
| URL | an Internet address for finding a web site; for example, the URL for the Dominie Press web site is www.dominie.com |
| www. | an abbreviation for World Wide Web; appears at the beginning of most Internet addresses |
| .com | an abbreviation at the end of an Internet address, indicates that the web site is a commercial site; that is, it was put on the Internet by a company |
| password | a word or string of letters that only you know |
| log on | begin using an Internet service (type your password and so on) |
| go to | select an item on the screen; for example, “Go to Search on the toolbar.” |
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| Basic features of database programs | | | Web browsers |