Exercise 1 2. Topics for discussion.
Speak on the part of a seller manager offering new types of devices.
1) laser printer
2) LCD monitor
3) plasma TV
4) new loudspeakers
5) plotter
UNIT 9 PROCESSING
Exercise 1. Read after your teacher. When alone, read aloud the following words and expressions, using the speech-recognition system.
word processing software, estimates, suite, other word processing applications, open source applications, create, edit, and print documents, modify, characters, keyboard, advantage, typewriter, retyping, entire document, a typing mistake, cursor, delete, paragraph, remove, equally easy, vary considerably, support, basic features, erase characters, duplicate, page size and margins, readjust, search, word wrap, additional features, manipulate and format documents, sophisticated ways, advanced word processors, full-featured word processors, file management capabilities, font specifications, italics, illustrations and graphs, specify customized headers and footers, automatically, appears, layout, merges, generating mailing labels, utility,highlight, recognize, special codes, thesaurus, synonyms, WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), dividing, full-colour documents, in general
Exercise 2. Find these words and word expressions in the following text. Translate them into Russian. You can use them while retelling the text.
Microsoft Word, word processing software, word processing applications, WordPerfect, OpenOffice.org Writer, AbiWord, KWord, LyX, Web-based word processors, Office Web Apps, Google Docs, create, edit, and print documents, word processor, printer, store, display, modify, commands and characters, keyboard, typewriter, cursor, delete, insert, file, hard copy, basic features, insert text, delete text, erase, characters, words, lines, or pages, cut andpaste, copy,page size and margins, search and replace, word wrap, print, text editors, manipulate and format documents, full-featured word processors, file management, create, delete, move, and search for files, font specifications, bold, italics, and underlining, font size and the typeface, footnotes and cross-references, cross-reference, graphics, embedding illustrations and graphs, keeps track of page numbers, headers, footers, and page numbering, the top and bottom of every page, layout, indenting paragraphs, keystrokes, merge, generating mailing labels, spell checker, spelling of words, highlight, tables of contents and indexes, thesaurus, table of contents and index based on special codes, synonyms, large project, WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), line dividing word processors, desktop publishingsystems, shifting, desktop publishing applications, support finer control over layout, support for full-colour documents
Exercise 3. What do you know about these notions?
Exercise 4. Read the text and answer the questions following it.
Text WORD PROCESSING
Microsoft Word is the most widely used word processing software. Microsoft estimates that over 500,000,000 people use the Microsoft Office suite, which includes Word. Many other word processing applications exist, including WordPerfect and open source applications OpenOffice.org Writer, AbiWord, KWord, and LyX. Web-based word processors, such as Office Web Apps or Google Docs, are a relatively new category.
Word processing is using a computer to create, edit, and print documents. Of all computer applications, word processing is the most common. To perform word processing, you need a computer, a special program called a word processor, and a printer. A word processor enables you to create a document, store it electronically on a disk, display it on a screen, modify it by entering commands and characters from the keyboard, and print it on a printer.
