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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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devices. .


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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