XIV. Check all the unknown words from paragraph 3 in your dictionary and translate it into Russian. Unit 5 Main Memory

Section A Advantages and disadvantages. Job definition

A. Advantages and disadvantages

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of your job? Give your job a score from 0 (very bad) to 5 (very good) on the chart below.

	score (0-5)
interesting work
length of holidays
flexibility of working hours
salary or wages
fringe benefits
job security
level of stress
level of job satisfaction
level of control over the work organization
pleasant working environment
relationships with colleagues

2. Which of the factors above are most important for you?

3. What qualities do you need to do your job successfully?

4. What information would you include in an advert for your job?

• One good thing about my job is …

• Another is …

• The bad thing about it is …

• I like …

• I don’t like …

• I’d like …

• I wouldn’t like …

B. Job definition

Outline your job definition. Make rough notes first. Explain:

• what you are responsible for

• how your performance is measured

• where you have the authority to change things

C. Self study: Easily confused words

Make a list of the words you used to outline your job definition, e.g. check, control, organize, supervise, maintain, repair. Make sure you know the difference between words with similar meanings. A good dictionary will help you.

These words are often confused. Do you know how to use them?

check / control	financial / economic	raise / rise
deliver / despatch	say / tell	advertise / announce
enquire / query	maintain / repair	safety / security
training / education	lend / borrow	notice / note
miss / lose	remember / remind

Section B Language Focus. Simple Tenses

Present Simple

I. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form of Present Simple:

1. Computers (to process) the data and (to give) the results of the processing in a specified format as information.

2. A standard computer system (to consist) of three main sections: the Central Processing unit, the main memory and the peripherals.

3. The control unit (to examine) the instructions in the user’s program.

4. The peripherals (to include) storage devices and input/output devices.

5. Input devices (to enable) data to go into the computer’s memory.

6. The Central Processing Unit (to execute) programs and (to coordinate) the activities of all the other units.