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b Fill in the sentences with the words and expressions mentioned in the
activity above.
1 More recent products of the _____ technology make it possible for a person
using the Internet to dial any telephone in the world.
2 _____ was announced in 1998 and is being developed by Ericsson, IBM, Intel,
Nokia, and Toshiba.
3 _____ allows people who are geographically far apart to type messages to each
other which are sent and received instantly.
4 ______ is now used to refer to large database, electronic mail, and conferencing
systems accessed via a dial-up modem.
5 The invention of the word _______ is generally credited to US science-fiction
writer William Gibson (1948- ) and his first novel Neuromancer 1984.
6 To increase their attractiveness, _______ expanded rapidly in the late 1990s to
offer a wide variety of services such as personalized start-up pages, free e- mail,
directories, customized news and weather reports, online calendars, games, and
free Web space.
16 a Fill in the blanks with the appropriate preposition or adverbs from
the list below.
into, together, over, by, out of, on, down to, through, back to, with
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Welcome to "Introduction to Computers and the Internet." This course is
designed to help inexperienced computer users get 1)_______ their fear of
technology and get 2)_______it "technically." We are going to teach you how to
get 3)_______ with computers and get 4)_____ the Internet. I am your instructor,
Mr. Pfeffer, and these are my two assistants, Mrs. Frank and Miss DePaul.
Together, we are going to help you get 5)_______these lessons. By the time you
get 6)_______this class you will have mastered the concepts you need to
successfully navigate the web.
First, I would like everyone to get 7)_______groups and choose a computer.
Once you have gotten 8)_______and chosen a place to sit, we will get
9)_______work. We will be learning about different browsers and how they
function. We will teach you how to interpret the layout of a web page and how to
know where to click to move to other parts of the web site. At that point, we are
going to take a short fifteen-minute break.
After you all get 10)_______class, we are going to discuss web-based content.
We are going to teach you how to find the content you want using sources such
as Yahoo or Alta Vista. So, let's get started.