Give Ukrainian equivalents of the following.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 398.

Word Study

Answer following questions.

1) What does "a computer-literate person" mean? 2. Why should we be aware of the potential of computers? 3) What do the people mean by "the basics"? 4) What is the role of computers in our society? 5) What changes do computers bring? 6) What is ''computing''? 7) What does system analyst use? And what may he oversee? 8) What does software engineer do? 9) In what do systems support people specialize? And what may they involve solving prob­lems? 10) What does computer system analyst programmercreate? And what may he support? 11) In what does hardware engineer involve? 12) Why are there an increasing number of careers involving computers? 13) What has spawned the need for many standards or­ganizations, clubs and societies of both a formal and informal nature?

5. Find as quickly as possible and read out the sentences containing the following important information:

• about a person who is computer-literate;
• system analyst;
• software designer;
• computer systems support person;
• computer system analyst programmer;
• hardware engineer.

*6. Try to tell the gist of the text.

An information-dependent society; a computer-literate cit­izen; an everyday problem-solving device; to in­fluence the quality of life; to learn the basics; the most significant technical achievements; to be on the way of becoming computer-literate; to have much in common; to bring both economic and social changes; the employer's requirements; work patterns; to prepare a report on different options; to oversee the implementation and testing of the system; to act as a link; to control the internal operations of computers; to convert the system analyst's specification to a logical series of steps; to handle the basic opera­tion of the computers; the use of machine codes; to pro­vide user manuals.