The Internet.Living in a Wired World

Dangerous weapon properties are above our reason

( J.R.R.Tolkien “Lord of Rings”

Our objectives today:• checking the knowledge of new words • reading new facts about the Internet• learning the idioms related to technology• practicing word formation • speaking about your favorite websites and search engines.

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keyboard

website

download

broadband

World Wide Web

connection

laptop

memory

network

desktop

technology

programmes

applications

document

files

monitor

mouse

scanner

screen

Quiz

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What else would you like to know about the Internet?

1. Probable ----------------- 2. Research -------------------3. Popular -----------4. Use -----------------------------5. Shop ---------------------------6. Deliver ---------------------7. Populate --------------------------8. Institute ----------------------

adverb

nounnoun

noun

noun

noun

noun

noun

probably

popularity

users

shopping

delivery

population

institutions

researchers

What do these numbers refer to?

• 1970• 38• 13• 5

• 17%• 80%

Use: the year when…., the number of years…., the amount of…., the percentage of….

Idioms related to technology

Be on the same wavelength

(think the same way)

Get one’s wires crossed

(misunderstand one’s another)

Be light years ahead of

(is a lot more advanced than)

Not be rocket science(is not complicated or

difficult to understand)

Which of the activities do you and other members of your family use

the Internet for?

• HomeEnglish.ru• Wikipedia • detsky-mir.net• rusolymp.ru• 5plys.ru• exponenta.ru• allsoch.ru• develop.kinder.com• odnoklassniki.ru• vkontakte.ru

Research Engines

Yahoo!

Hot Bot

Euro SeekExcite

Infoseek

Google

Altavista

Lycos

Homework

WorkbookEx.1-4, p.37