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Study the following words and word combinations. Consult a specialized ICT dictionary or one of the following websites, if necessary.

Поиск

• Free Online Dictionary of Computing: http://foldoc.org

• Tech Dictionary: www.techdictionary.com

• Tech Encyclopedia: www.techweb.com/encyclopedia

• Tech Terms Dictionary: www.techterms.com

• Free Online Dictionary of Computing: http://www.instantweb.com

 

access (n) • entering a computer system; getting information from a storage device; means of access: to have ~ to more than 150,000 e-books;
computer(n) • an electronic machine that can store, organize and find information, do calculations and control other machines: ~s perform many tasks; ~-generated unemployment;~ industry; to set up a ~; to restart a ~; to reboota ~;
data (n) • a collection of factual knowledge about something; a body of facts; information: e-vote ~;
digital(adj) • about an electronic system that has only two states, off and on: exchange ~ data; ~ citizens; ~ media extender; play ~ content onto TVs;Ant. analogue;
emoticon(n) • an abbreviation or icon used on a network to indicate amusement: use ~s;
e-voting(n) • a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means of casting a vote and electronic means of counting votes: ~ ballots; ~ voting machines;
Information Technology(n) • (also Information Technologies) development, implementation, and maintenance of computer hardware and software systems to organize and communicate information electronically;
information society(n) • a society characterised by a high level of information intensity: machine tools of the ~; a global ~;
Information Resources Management • techniques of managing information as a shared organizational resource;
program(n) • a series of instructions which can be put into a computer in order to make it perform an operation;
programme (n) • a broadcast on television or radio: the government information ~ of the Republic of Belarus “e-Belarus”;
store (v) • to save information in electronic form, for example in a computer’s memory: ~ gigabytes of music on a PMP;
transmit(v) • to send out an electronic signal such as a radio, television or computer signal; to pass information to other people: ~ vote data.
   

Make sure you know what abbreviations, acronyms and blendings mean.

abbreviation(n) • a shortened form of a written word or phrase used in place of the whole, such as ICT [ ai-si-ti ];
acronym(n) • a word formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term, such as GNU [ gə`nu:];
blending(n) • a word made up by mixing usually two parts of words, such as emoticon [ emotion+icon ].

Study the following abbreviations, acronyms and blendings.

IT(or Info-Tech) • Information Technology or Technologies
ICT • Information and Communication Technology or Technologies
IRM • Information Resources Management
PMP • portable music player
the Web, wwwor 3w • World Wide Web
Emoticon • emotion and icon
CIM • Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
GPS • Global Positioning Service
DVD • Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc

Read the information about the use of British and American English in this textbook. Then learn the British and American spellings and variants of the words below.

NB! This practice-oriented textbook for students of ICT contains original texts on a variety of topics from different indigenous sources. Due to this fact the reader may come across both British and American variants of English. The teaching instructions are given in British English, the original texts, though abridged and adapted, have preserved their authentic spellings and variants for the students of English not to be taken aback with the two Englishes when surfing the Internet or reading in the original.

British Spelling / Variant American Spelling / Variant
analogue analog
analyse analyze
behaviour behavior
characterised characterized
catalogue catalog
centre center
cheque check
colour color
disc disk
encyclopaedia encyclopedia
endeavour endeavor
favourable / unfavourable favorable / unfavorable
fibre fiber
fulfill, fulfillment fulfil, fulfilment
informatisation informatization
licence license
marvellous marvelous
mneumonics mnemonics
mobile phone cellular phone
modelling modeling
organisation organization
standardised standardized
telelabour telelabor
utilise utilize

Match the words with their definitions.

1.information technology 2.digital citizens 3.electronic voting 4.information society 5.store 6.computer 7.emoticon 8.data 9.digital a)a society characterised by a high level of information intensity; b)a sideways image of a face formed by keyboard symbols, which is used in emails to express a particular emotion; c)information in an electronic form that can be stored and processed by a computer; d)people who have the means to partake in information society; e)a description of data which is stored or transmitted as a sequence of discrete symbols from a finite set; f)to keep or put things in a special place for use in the future; g)the science and activity of using computers and other electronic equipment to manage information; h)a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means of casting a vote and electronic means of counting votes; i) an electronic machine that can store, organize and find information, do calculations and control other machines.


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