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INTRODUCTION TO ICT SYSTEMS 3.1 Vocabulary stress within words • prefixes
A Discuss these questions. 1 When do you use ICT or see ICT being used around you in your everyday life?
2 What are the benefits of ICT to your life? 3 Are there any disadvantages?
B Study the pictures on the opposite page.
1 What aspects of life do they show? Talk about each picture using words from box a. (You will not need all the words.)
2 How does each item work?
C Look at the words in box a. 1 Underline the stressed syllable in each word.
2 Which of these words has the same stress pattern as global? 3 Sort the other words into groups according to their stress patterns.
D Complete each sentence with a word from box a. Change the form if necessary. 1 The
2 You need a personal identification number (PIN) to take money out of the teller machine.
3 The microchip in a biometric such as their fingerprints or a face scan. 4 Internet fraud. 5 Global systems use signals from satellites to triangulate their position. This
information can then be displayed in map form to help drivers travel from one place to another. 6 Use the remote 7 Body function
to select the channel you want to watch. devices give information which doctors can use to treat a patient’s condition. 8 WAP phones use wireless
automated automation automaton
binary
bidirectional biannual
embed encode enable
protocol.
E Study the words in box b. Find the prefix and try to work out the meaning in each case. b
output
outsource outline
F Complete each sentence with a word from box b. Change the form if necessary. 1 Manufacturing processes which are controlled by computers are said to be
2 A system uses only two numbers, ‘1’ and ‘0’.
3 Laser printers and VDU screens are examples of 4 The latest computers are much faster than their 5 Most of today’s washing machines have
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ICT systems.
predecessor preformat preprogram
. shopping is a convenient way to buy things, but many people worry about contains information about an individual, system went off when someone tried to break into the house. a
alarm application automated biometric control device global
machine monitoring online passport positioning protocol receiver remote system teller wireless
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