Find the Ukrainian equivalents for the following English words and word

combinations:

a) a USB port, video file, tiny digital camera, built into your computer, a security surveillance system, electronic image sensor, suitable for, compactness, simplicity

b) густість, компактність, щільність; мініатюрна цифрова камера; відео файл; вбудований в комп’ютер; простота, надійна система нагляду; електронний датчик зображення; придатний; ЮСБ порт

3. Which of these words from the list are similar in your language? Do they mean the same? Say what words in the Ukrainian language help you to guess their meaning:

USB port, conference, program, file, real, record, station, application, system, compact, Wi-Fi, videophone, message, popular, military

4. Read the text and translate it: Webcam and Digital camera

A webcam is a video capture device connected to a computer or computer network, often using a USB port or, if connected to a network or Wi-Fi. The most popular use is for videotelephony, permitting a computer to act as a videophone or video conferencing station. This can be used in messenger programs such as Windows Live Messenger, Skype and Yahoo! messenger services. Other popular uses, which include the recording of video files or even still-images, are accessible via numerous software programs, applications and devices. Webcams are tiny digital cameras that are attached or built into your computer. Webcams are a fun, addictive web tool that let you connect with other people and places in real time.

The technology behind using a webcam is very simple. You basically need three things in order for it to work; a webcam, software to record and capture video and a medium to broadcast the recorded images and video.

It is a misconception that using a webcam is just to record yourself doing something beneficial or entertaining. A webcam can also be used a security surveillance system. For instance, if you want to see what your children or employees are doing while you are away, just hook up a webcam and watch it from a remote location. Webcams are also a form of face to face communication between people from different parts of the world. The military is even using the technology to allow troops to communicate with their families after they have been deployed to other countries. Many college kids like to use webcams to communicate with their friends who are away at schools in different states. It is a faster communication than writing letters and more enjoyable than emails.

A digital camera (or digicam) is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. Many compact digital still cameras can record sound and moving video as well as still photographs. Digital cameras can do things film cameras cannot: displaying images on a screen immediately after they are recorded, storing thousands of images on a single small memory device, recording video with sound, and deleting images to free storage space. Compact cameras are designed to be small and portable and are particularly suitable for casual and "snapshot" use, thus are also called point-and-shoot camera. The smallest, generally less than 20 mm thick, are described as subcompacts or "ultra-compacts". Compact cameras are usually designed to be easy to use, sacrificing advanced features and picture quality for compactness and simplicity; images can usually only be stored using lossy compression (JPEG). Most have a built-in flash usually of low power, sufficient for nearby subjects. Live preview is almost always used to frame the photo. They may have limited motion picture capability. Compacts often have macro capability, but if they have zoom capability the range is usually less than for bridge and DSLR cameras. They have a greater depth of field, allowing objects within a large range of distances from the camera to be in sharp focus.

A line-scan camera is a camera device containing a line-scan image sensor chip, and a focusing mechanism. These cameras are almost solely used in industrial settings to capture an image of a constant stream of moving material. Unlike video cameras, line-scan cameras use a single array of pixel sensors, instead of a matrix of them.

Post-text exercises:

1. Put the words in the right order to make a sentence:

1. A, a, a, webcam, is, to, video, device, capture, connected, computer. 2. A, a, surveillance, webcam, be, can, also, used, security, system. 3. A, a a, line-scan camera, camera, is, device, line-scan image sensor, containing, chip. 4. Many, can, compact, still, cameras, record, digital, sound. 5. Webcams, tiny, cameras, are, digital.6. Macro, compacts, have, often, capability. 7. Line-scan, pixel, single, array, use, of, a, sensors.

8. Cameras, usually, are, to, to, be, designed, compact, easy, use. 9. Tape, linear, storing, is, method, of, a, information.10. Quadruplex, th e, of, replacing, first, practical, capable, kinescopes, were, the, videotape, professional, machines, machines.

2. Fill in the blanks with the following words:

Image, tool, cassette, memory, film, kinescopes. communication, to communicate, cameras x2, device x 2,

1. A webcam is a video capture …connected to a computer.2. Many compact digital still …can record sound and moving video. 3. Webcams are …that let you connect with other people and places in real time. 4. A line-scan camera is a camera …containing a line-scan … sensor chip. 5. Digital …can do things … cameras cannot. 6. Webcams are also a form of face to face… between people from different parts of the world. 7. Digital cameras stores thousands of images on a single small... device. 8. Many college kids like to use webcams …with their friends.9. The first practical professional videotape machines capable of replacing … were the Quadruplex machines.10. Sony introduced a prototype for the first widespread video … in 1969.

3. Complete the following sentences using active vocabulary:

1. A webcam is a video capture device connected … 2. Many compact digital still cameras can … 3. Compact cameras are designed to be … 4. Digital cameras can do things … 5. A line-scan camera is a camera device containing… 5. The military is even using the technology to allow troops to … 6. Webcams are also a form of face to face communication between … 7. Compacts often have macro capability, but if they have zoom capability the range is... 8. If you want to see what your children or employees are doing while you are away, just hook up … 9. Compact cameras have a built-in flash usually of low power, sufficient for nearby subjects.

4. Say if the following statements are true or false:

1. A digital camera is a video capture device connected to a computer or computer network 2. A line-scan camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs. 3. A webcam can also be used as a security surveillance system. 4. A webcam is a camera device containing a line-scan image sensor chip. 5. Digital cameras can do things that film cameras can. 6. The technology behind using a webcam is very simple.7. Compacts often have micro capability. 8. Compact cameras are designed to be very big. 9. DSLR cameras have a smaller depth of field. 10. The recording unit couldn’t be detached from the camera and carried to a shooting location.

5. Answer the following questions:

1. What is a line-scan camera? 2. What is a webcam? 3. What is a digital camera?

4. What is the capability of compact? 5. Where is a line-scan camera used? 6. What let you connect with other people and places in real time? 7. Where is a webcam used?

8. Can compact cameras record sound and moving video as well as still photographs?

9. Could the recording unit be detached from the camera and carried to a shooting location.

6. Put the questions to the following sentences:

1. A webcam is a video camera which feeds its images in real time to a computer or computer network, often via USB, Internet or Wi-Fi. 2. Compact cameras are designed to be small and portable and are particularly suitable for casual and "snapshot" use.

3. Computer hardware manufacturers began building webcams directly into laptop and desktop screens. 4. A camcorder is an electronic device that combines a video camera and a video recorder into one unit. 5. The earliest camcorders employed analog recording onto videotape. 6. Camcorders that do not use magnetic tape are often called tapeless camcorders. 7. A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length can be varied, as opposed to a fixed focal length lens. 8. In 1969, Sony introduced a prototype for the first widespread video cassette. 9. The first practical professional videotape machines were introduced by Ampex on April 14, 1956.

7. Match the first part (1-8) of the sentence with the second part (a-h):

1. The magnetic amplifier is …

2. An audio amplifier is …

3. Distributed amplifiers are …

4. A fully differential amplifier is …

5. An operational amplifier is …

6. Sound is a mechanical wave that is …

7. A transducer is …

8. A microphone is …

a) … an electronic amplifier that amplifies low-power audio signals to a level suitable for driving loudspeakers and is the final stage in a typical audio playback chain.

b) … circuit designs that incorporate transmission line theory into traditional amplifier design to obtain a larger gain-bandwidth product than is realizable by conventional circuits.

c) … an amplifier circuit with very high open loop gain and differential inputs which employs external feedback for control of its transfer function or gain.

d) … an electromagnetic device for amplifying electrical signals.

e) … a solid state integrated circuit amplifier which employs external feedback for control of its transfer function or gain.

f) … an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal.

g) … a device that converts one type of energy to another.

h)… an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas.

8. Read the supplementary text, translate and entitle it:

The Minoru 3D Webcam is a stereoscopic webcam by Promotion and Display Technology of Salford, Greater Manchester. Released in January 2009, it won the "Fans Favorite" award at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. According to the company, it is the "world's first consumer 3D webcam." It was designed by David Holder.

The webcam, which hooks to a computer via a USB port, consists of two cameras "roughly the same distance apart as human eyes" are held together in a device that resemble Wall-E in appearance. It is capable of 3D, 2D, and Picture-in-picture. Its image can be output from 320x240 pixels to 800x600 pixels and it has a frame rate of 30 frames per second. The 3D imagery can be produced in anaglyph and side by side format.The camera has 2 x VGA 640x480 CMOS sensors, 2 x High quality wide angle lens, and a built in USB microphone.