DEAR SOPHOMORES

You have to do the following given below!

KEY PHRASAL VERBS TO TALK ABOUT COMPUTERS

 Now you are ready to have a conversation about your computer. So what do you love the most about your computer?

A phrasal verb is a phrase that is made up of a verb and a preposition, for example “wake up”, “sit down” and “run into”. Today, we are going to look at some phrasal verbs that are specifically used when you are talking about computers.

1. ‘Pop up’ – these are adverts or boxes of information that appear on your screen to tell you about something, or try and sell you a product or service. They usually sit on top of the page you are looking at, and you often have to click to close them.

2. ‘Scroll up / down’ – this phrasal verb is used when you move the webpage from top to bottom using your up or down arrow keys. It is how you read the whole Internet page. So, when someone tells you to “scroll up” they are telling you to move closer to the top of the page.

3. ‘Log in’ – this is a common activity that we all perform on computers. Whenever you type a username and password (as you start your computer or open your email for example) you are “logging in”.

4. ‘Set up’ – this phrasal verb is more commonly used when you buy a new computer. You have to make the computer “yours” by downloading all of your programs, and perhaps transferring information from your old computer onto your new one. All of these processes are known as “setting up” the computer.

5. ‘Plug in’ – lots of us have laptop computers that we can carry and use anywhere. These are battery-powered, but when our batteries run out we have to “plug in” the computer to an electric power point.

pop up – appear suddenly

Every time I open this site, a new window pops up saying that I won a free prize.

scroll down – move (a page) down

There was a long list of names on the webpage and I had to scroll down to view all of them.

dial up – dial a number that connects a computer with an Internet service provider

Sometimes it takes my computer for ever to dial up to my Internet service provider.

plug in – insert a plug into an electric outlet

She forgot to plug in her printer and was wondering why it didn’t work.

log in – enter a computer by providing username and password

I log in to my bank account every week to check my balance.

set up – establish

I asked my friend help me set up my email account.

Practice computer-related phrasal verbs in this exercise.

Please pay attention that the same expressions can be used as nouns as well. In these cases they’ll usually be hyphenated: a pop-up (window), a scroll-down (bar), a dial-up (connection), a plug-in (device), log-in or login information, a set-up (procedure).

Dear sophomores,
click on the video to get to know essential Internet vocabulary.
Write them out, look up in a dictionary to learn.

Best regards.

What’s the difference between signing in and signing up? How do we use Google, Facebook, and email as verbs? What’s streaming? What does it mean to look something up?

                                          

Test your understanding of the English lesson by answering these questions.

 You will get the answers and your score at the end of the quiz.

1. Hold on, I just need to _______ _______ to Gmail to check my email.

sign upsign inlog out/sign out

2. If you don't know when The Land Before Time was released, just _______________ on Wikipedia.

buffer itdownload itlook it upusername it

3. Before I think of a password, I need to create a ____________ for my account.

message boardusernamenetstream

4. Mark never leaves his room. He just browses _____________ all day.

the netlog outsclickssign ups

5. If you want to open up a document in Windows, you need to double ________ it.

hitpunchstreamclick

6. As soon as we get home, we're going to __________ this short film to YouTube.

downloaduploadstreamclick

7. __________ me later.

GoogleDownloadFacebookWikipedia

8. I ___________ my own name yesterday, and my Facebook page appeared first.

googledemaileduploadedstreamed

9. I don't have American sports stations on my TV, so I usually just ____________ games on my laptop.

uploadstreamdownloadlog out

10. My computer's taking forever to load this video. It has been _______ for over a minute.

clickingusernaminglooking upbuffering

DEAR SOPHOMORES

YOU are going to study some idioms today!

                                    BODY IDIOMS about the HEAD                        

                                                                 

I.                  History in brief

 

1.    To bite someone’s head off (досл. откусить чью-либо голову) – накинуться на кого-либо, говорить с кем-то резко, нелицеприятно, злобно отчитывать, не имея на то веской причины.

Происхождение:

В Англии 16 века, если вы кого-то разозлили, вам грозило бы буквально поплатиться за это своим носом – первым вариантом этой идиомы был ‘bite someone’s nose off’. К нашему дню идиома прибавила в кровожадности, но смысла своего не утратила.

Our team was ready to bite my head off just because I was ten minutes late. – Наша команда была готова накинуться на меня за то, что я опоздал на 10 минут.

 

2.    Give smb a cold shoulder (букв. дать холодное плечо) – холодно / безразлично отнестись, быть неприветливым с кем-то, вести себя грубо по отношению к человеку.

 

История происхождения:

         Для того, чтобы понять происхождение этой идиомы, нам придется немного разобраться в тонкостях кулинарии. В английском языке, слово shoulder кроме привычного нам значения – «плечо», имеет так же и другой перевод – «лопаточная часть мясной туши». Теперь представьте, что в Англии желанным гостям было принято подавать горячее, свежеприготовленное блюдо. Как же тогда приветствовали непрошеных гостей? В средневековой Англии существовал весьма интересный способ намекнуть гостю, что он, как бы, слегка задержался, и пора бы ему уже отправиться домой. Так, докучливым гостям подавали холодную баранью лопатку – cold mutton shoulder. При этом, такой намек считался вполне себе вежливым способом сказать: «Не пора ли вам домой?», тем более, гостей не оставляли совсем голодными. Интересное было время, и традиции у них были интересные.

I really needed his advice, but he has given me the cold shoulder. – Мне очень был нужен его совет, но он проявил полное равнодушие ко мне.