1. What are the main functions of personal computers?
2. What is an output device?
3. What is the difference between inputs and outputs?
4. What is a monitor?
5. What is displayed on the monitor?
6. What is soft copy?
7. What is a printer?
8. What is the primary source of the audio output devices?
9. What is a hard copy?
10. Is a CD-RW drive an input device or output device?
11. Can you give an example of output devices?
Exercise 2. Match the words from the box with the pictures.
| Speakers, headphones, plotter, monitor, printer, project |
1 _______________ 2. ______________ 3 _________________
4 _______________ 5 ________________ 6 _______________
Exercise 3. Which of the devices shown above are output and which of them are input? Fill in the table.
Here is a list of common peripherals you should be familiar with as an IT professional.
- monitors or displays
- scanners
- printers
- external modems
- dongles
- speakers
- webcams
- external microphones
- external storage devices such as USB-based flash drives and portable hard disk drives
- input devices such as keyboards, mice, etc. are normally considered peripherals as well
| Input devices | Output devices |
| keyboard | |
Exercise 4. Mark the sentences: True/False/ No information
1. There are three different types of peripherals: input, output, and storage.
2. Input hardware serves to send data into the computer's CPU, while output devices send data outwards to the user.
3. The monitor visually relays an image, which is created by the computer's operating system.
4. One peripheral device can be connected to many systems.
5. Projectors display images over a much less area.
6. Printer is an output device, which gives a hard copy of something you're working on.
7. Computer speakers allow to receive sounds that include music and the voices of other users.
8. Input/Output device devices are connected to a device controller, which is connected to the electronics in the computer system.
9. A CD-RW device is an output device only.
Exercise 5. Fill in the gaps with the words given below.
an input device, input, input and output, information, input-only, computer, output (2)
Any information or data that’s entered or sent to the computer to be processed is considered __________ and anything that is displayed from the computer is _______. Therefore, ________ such as a computer keyboard is capable of having information sent to the computer, but does not display (output) any __________. An _____________ device such as a computer printer can print information from the computer but does not send any information (input) to the __________.
Devices such as keyboards and mice are ________ devices while devices such as printers are output only. A writable CD-ROM is both an ___________ device.
Exercise 6. Here are the definitions for input and output devices. Decide whether the definition refers to input device(s) or to output device(s). Fill in the spaces with phrases input device(s) or output device(s).
1. _______ is a peripheral device, as a keyboard or stylus, used to enter data into a computer for processing.
2. _______ are devices used to input data or information into a computer.
3. _______ are controlled by the computers.
4. _______ are controlled by the users.
5. In computing term, an _______ is a piece of hardware that obeys a computer command to do something in the real world.
6. An _______ is any hardware that sends data to the computer.
7. _______ include webcams, scanners, keyboards, microphones, joysticks, gamepads and others.
8. An _______ is any electronic equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images.
9. _______ are used to convey information to the computer from an outside source.
10. Devices such as keyboards and mice are _______-only _______ while devices such as printers are _______-only devices.
