Unit 5 - Reading

Vocabulary• miraculous /mɪ’rækjʊləs/ adj : very effective or surprising or /mɪ’rækjʊləs/ adj : very effective or surprising or difficult to believe difficult to believe phi thường, kỳ l

A Reading

1 Work in groups

L ook at the illustrations of different parts of a computer system Match each numbered item with one of the words or phrases

I Warm up

Visual display unit

(VDU)

mouse

Printer

keyboard

Central processing unit (CPU)

Floppy disks CD ROMs

speakers

2 Vocabulary

• miraculous /mɪ’rækjʊləs/ (adj) : very effective or surprising or /mɪ’rækjʊləs/ (adj) : very effective or surprising or difficult to believe

difficult to believe ( (phi thường, kỳ lạ, tuyệt vời)

• scenic /’sɪnɪk/ (adj) : : thuộc về phong cảnh đẹp

•lightning speed /’lɑɪtnɪŋ ‘spi:d/ (adj) : moving at the speed oflɑɪtnɪŋ ‘spi:d/ (adj) : moving at the speed of light, very fast

light, very fast (tốc độ ánh sáng) (tốc độ ánh sáng)

chính xác)

• Storage device (n): a thing used to keep or store a thing used to keep or store i information

(thiết bị lưu trữ thông tin)

•data /’deɪtə/ (n) : information, especially facts or numbers /’deɪtə/ (n) : information, especially facts or numbers (dữ (dữ liệu)

liệu)

• memo /’meməʊ/ (n) : thư báo

II While you read

Task 1:

The words in A appear in the

reading passage Match them with their definitions in B.

A B

1 magical a link or act on each other

2 places of

scenic beauty

b programmes performed

by the computer.

3 interact c In a strange or mysterious way

4 software d the physical part of the computer system.

5 hardware e places where the scenes

are interesting & beautiful.

Task 2:

Decide which of the three options below is the best title for the passage.

A The computer - A new Invention

B The computer Has Become Part of Our Life

C What Can the Computer Do?

Task 2:

Decide which of the three options below is the best title for the passage.

A The computer - A new Invention

B The computer Has Become Part of Our Life

C What Can the Computer Do?

Dialogue 1

While you read – Task 3 Complete the following

dialogues by filling in the blanks with suitable words in the reading passage

A: In your opinion, what can a computer do to help us in our

daily life

?

B: Oh, I think the computer can do a lot It can help us

…………

faraway places indirectly We ……… prepared

by computers Besides, computers produce

……….and magazines for us to read And we can

save a lot of time to……… and ………….e-mails to our friends all over the world Moreover we can ………on

computers

B: Yes, the computer is very helpful

.

newspapers

learn foreign languages

While you read – Task 3 Dialogue 2

device Do you think so?

B: Yes, I totally agree with that idea The computer can

be a perfect ………machine It can do calculations very quickly The computer can also be an……… which manages a lot of information

too We can type any kind of document we want

B: In addition, after a day of studying hard, you can…….by playing computer games or listening to computer-played music

calculating electronic store

relax

III After you read

One answers and one reports , using the cues below.

Dialogue 1

A: In your opinion, what can a computer do to help us in our daily life

?

time to send and receive e-mails to our friends all over

B: Yes, the computer is very helpful

*

us visit faraway places indirectly

A: Some people say that the computer is a miraculous device

Do you think so?

B: Yes, I totally agree with that idea The computer can be a perfect calculating machine It can do calculations very quickly

lot of information.

A: Yes, the computer can be a magical typewriter , too We can type any kind of document we want.

B: In addition , computers can help us relax a lot After a day of studying hard, we can turn on the computer to play some games or listen to some songs on it

A: Oh, the computer is definitely a magical device

*C:Computer is a micraculous device.It can be a perfect

calculating machine………

Dialogue 2