Until the next semester

Until the next semester. In the Second Module.

Vocabulary

Storehouse: Armazém
World Wide Web (www): Rede Mundial de Computadores
Browser: Navegador
Forward: Encaminhar, para frente
Means: Significa
Thousands: Milhares
Research: Pesquisa
Track: Faixa
Appealing: Atraente
Schedules: Horários
Weather Forecast: Previsão do Tempo
Bidding: Licitação
Purchasing: Comprar

What can you do with computers?

In the workplace:

• Keep records, analyze data, do research, and manage projects.

At home:

• To find information, store pictures and music, track finances, play games, and communicate with others – and those are just a few of the possibilities.

The Web

The web is the most popular part of the internet, partly because it displays most information in a visually appealing format.

Headlines, text, and pictures can be combined on a single webpage. A website is a collection of interconnected webpages. The web contains millions of websites and billions of webpages.

Surfing the web means exploring it. You can find information on the web about almost any topic imaginable. For example:

• read news stories and movie reviews;
• check airline schedules;
• see street maps;
• get the weather forecast for your city or research a health condition.

You can browse and purchase products: books, music, toys, clothing, electronics, and much more. And you can also buy and sell used items through websites that use auction-style bidding.

E-mail

E-mail (short for electronic mail) is a convenient way to communicate with others. When you send an email message, it arrives almost instantly in the recipient’s email inbox.

You can:

•  send email to many people simultaneously;
• save, print, and forward email to others;
• send almost any type of file in an email message, including documents, pictures, and music files.

Instant messaging

Instant messaging is like having a real-time conversation with another person or a group of people. Communicating by means of instant messaging is called chatting.

Pictures, music and movies

If you have a digital camera, you can move your pictures from the camera to your computer. Then you can print them, create slide shows, or share them with others by email or by posting them on a website. You can also listen to music on your computer, either by importing (transferring to your computer) music from audio CDs or by purchasing songs from a music website. Or, tune in to one of the thousands of radio stations that broadcast over the Internet. If your computer comes with a DVD player, you can watch movies.

Gaming

Do you like to play games?

Thousands of computer games in every conceivable category are available to entertain you.  Many games allow you to compete with other players around the world through the Internet. Windows includes a variety of card games, puzzle games, and strategy games.

WHAT IS A COMPUTER ?

Note: This text was drawn from our handout.

"Nowadays, in most modern societies, almost everybody has an idea about what a computer is. We depend on computers in every aspect of our lives whether we know how to use oneor not. But does everyone really know how a computer inside?

A computer is an electronic machine which processes data and provides the results of the processing as information. There are three basics steps in the computing process. The first one is input, wich consists of feeding data into the computer's memory. Then comes the processing the programis run and the computer process the data by performing a set of instructions. The third and final step is the output furnished by the computer, which allows the user to see the results either in printed form or on the screen.

The world of computers has created a specific language of its own. English words such as software and hardware are usedworldwide and have been borrewed by many different languages. Software is information in the form of data and programs, and hardware refers to the eletronic and mechanical parts that make up a computer system.

Despite the constant presence of computers in most modern societies, it is a great mistake to believe that everybody in the world is computer-literate, i.e., is familiar with computers and knows how to use them properly. In some contemporary societies, many people still have no idea about the existence of computers, and even in the so-called about  what a computer is."

INTRODUCTION

We are students of ETEC. We are doing work of English language.

Our goal - Expound on the subject we studied. And create a work together with other disciplines.

Study:

• BD - Database
• OSA - Software operations and applications.
• TPI1 - Techniques of Internet programming.
• IMC - Installation and Maintenance of Computers.
• GSO - Operating System Management.
• II - Instrumental English
• LP - Programming Logic.
• LTT - Language, Work and Technology.
• AS - Analysis and Systems Development