DEAR SOPHOMORES,

Here are some topics for your exam:
1. Computer
2. Phrasal verbs with TURN
3. Desktop
4. Idioms about TRANSPORT 
5. Internet
6. Emails, phones, and the post.

DEAR FRESHMEN,

Here are some topics for your exam:

1. My family (you can find out the similar text in my MOODLE, "Extra units for freshmen", My family / My extended family)
2. My working day and everyday duties (make up your own text on the bases of the text on page 63, "Step by Step")
3. The house I live in / My favourite room (Use your presentation on the topic or the text on page 77, "Step by Step")
4. Day off (look at the text given below)
5. Higher Education in Great Britain (page 108, "Step by Step" )
6.  I'm an undergraduate at Dagestan State University (page 127, from "Step by Step")

MY DAY OFF

Hi, I'm ...

I'm an undergraduate at Dagestan State University.

I'm doing a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology.

I've got a lot of studies at the University that's why my schedule is very busy on weekdays.

I've only got one day-off on Sunday which I try to enjoy as much as I could.

As usual I meet up with my friends.

When we have time for leisure we go out somewhere. 

I live in Makhachkala and there are many places to have a snack, rest and chat. 

They are cinemas, cafes, restaurants and clubs.

On Sundays my friends and I prefer going out for a meal in a cafe like "Pascucci", "Z & M" or "7th Continent". 

Here we can meet every kind of people: a doctor, a studentm a worker or a stateman.

Our favourite cafe is ................

We like because it serves different types of lovely food.

We generally prefer ordering pizza or Dagestan chudu, some salad, juice or cola.

For dessert we usually have coffee or tea with cakes.

While eating we like talking about different events and things, exchanging the latest news, discussing the plans for the next weekend and of course we tease and play tricks on each other.

I love such get-togethers with my friends.

And I'm always looking forward to our new hangouts.

Dear sophomores,
after watching the video about 12 internet vocabulary   in the previous message
do the quiz.
Luck.

                           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. I googled some recipes to impress my friends at dinner.
Which of the following could replace the word 'googled' above?

looked forsearched onlinelooked atO      searched

2. (Internet) cookies are stored ___________.

in the kitchenin a jaron your computeronline

3. Email SPAM is also called:

mystery meata virusa cookiejunk mail

4. What is phishing?

a trick to try to get your personal informationIt's plain fishing without a wormsoftware to protect emailO     a misspelling

5. If you are lucky, your video will _______ and be seen all over the world.

be popularbe sexygo viralO      be a virusO     stink up

6. Where does the word 'blog' come from?

blue + frognews + siteweb + logIt is just a made-up word.

7. What is a meme?

an idea, image (photo, video), or action that is copied and used in different situationsa person who acts without speaking, using only gesturesa short form of the word memorya printer that can print many copies quickly

8. What is an internet post?

a tall log on which electrical wires are hunga position within an organizationsomething that you enter or upload onlinea little yellow piece of paper that you can stick in textbooksa blog

9. What is a post view?

a record of someone looking at something onlinesceneryan opinionwhat can be seen from the top of a post

10. Talia: "What was the URL for that website you told me about, where I can improve my English?"
Bruce: "Oh, uh... it's _______________________."

engVidwww.engvid.com'engvid' on googlemyspace

Dear students,
watch more vidoes "12 internet vocabulary"
Learn the underlined words in a bold type from the text below.
Get ready to explain them in English.

Wish you luck.

Hi again. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. Today's lesson is hopefully very

useful to all of you. We're going to look at Internet vocabulary, how to survive in cyberspace. Just in case you don't know, "cyberspace" is the Internet, the Internet world where everything happens. These are some very common words you'll see today. Where'll you see them? 

Everywhere. You'll see them in news reports, articles about entertainment, sports, finance,

business -- everywhere. Because the Internet is everywhere, okay? Cyberspace -- huge.

So 

let's start. "Viral", okay? This is an adjective. When

something "goes viral" -- "to go viral". When something "goes viral", it means it spreads very quickly. So for example, I think all of you probably by now have seen Miley Cyrus shake her thing, as it were. That video of her shaking herself went viral. It became 

a huge hit. Thousands, millions of people saw it all over the world. I think another

example is PSY. You know the "Gangnam Style" thing? I'm not going to do it for you; don't worry. But he went viral as soon as his video came up. Keep in mind it goes with this verb.

"It went viral." "It will go viral." Many books about how to create a viral video, for

example. So it's usually images, videos, sometimes articles, depends on what topic it is.

I know that you know what "Google" is. Everybody knows Google. "Google" as a noun is the name

of a company. It comes from a big number. I'm not going to try to say it because it's too big for me to say, but basically, they got this name from mathematics, I guess. But do you know that it's also a verb? "To google", and in the past tense it's "I googled it."

And what am I doing right now? "I am googling." Now, some people will write with the "e";

most people will write without the "e". I don't really think it matters all that much. People will understand what you're saying. "To google" basically means "to search". This brand name, the brand name of the company, has become so popular that it is used for any search thing you do on the Internet. If you're using Yahoo!, you're not "yahooing".

You're still "googling". If you're using Bing or whatever other search engine, you're probably

still "googling" because that's the word that's become common. 

Completely unrelated: In Canada if you want a tissue to blow your nose, most likely you will ask for a Kleenex. A "Kleenex" is a brand name; it's a company name. Same idea. Google is that huge.

"To post" or "a post", again noun or verb. A "post" is something that you put on the

Internet, something you put on your Facebook page, something you put on your blog page, on your website. "To post" means "to put up", to put up for the Internet to spread, hopefully go viral, get you a lot of views, which we will talk about in a second. Now, if you keep a blog, then you want to have good posts, and hopefully they will go viral or will come high on the Google search, okay?

 "Blog" is short for "web log". So "web log"; "blog". Now, what is a "log"? A "log" is like a journal or a diary. So a "blog" is usually a personal website where people put whatever they want: comments or ideas or pictures or

whatever or videos, in which case it's a vlog -- a "video log". And what you want... you're 

going to post your articles or your ideas, and you want people to come and see them. You're sharing this with the world. 

A "tweet" comes from the company Twitter. A "tweet" is a short message, 140 characters or less, so letters, spaces, dashes, etc. It's something that you share with whoever you want, whoever follows you on Twitter.

You tweet this. Sometimes people will "retweet": They will take your tweet, your message, and

send it out to more people. So hopefully, if many people see your tweet, maybe it will go viral and the whole world will see it. Maybe.

"Phishing"." Phishing" is a very interesting phenomenon, okay? What people do is they send

you an email, and they hope that you will respond and give them information: bank accounts, passwords, usernames, etc. So they send you a letter saying, "Oh, hi, you know. I'm your bank. There's a bit of a problem with your credit card. Can you send me your credit card number and expiry date and the code on the back just so I can make sure that it's actually not a problem?" Well, that's the problem. Be very careful of phishing. It sounds like "fish" because they're sending you a bait, they're sending you a little worm and hope you swallow it. Don't, okay?

 "Bits and bytes". Now, when I was a kid, "Bits

and Bites" were a snack that you buy in a bag -- all kinds of little pretzels and, like, 

corn chips, and all kinds of things. Not this "bits and bytes". "Bit": One "bit" is a very small piece of information that is used in computer programming. "Bytes" are a collection of eight bits, eight bits. Now, then you have "kilobytes", which is basically a thousand bytes -- 1024 to be exact, but around a thousand. Kilo -- thousand. "Megabytes" are a thousand kilobytes. "Gigabytes" -- "gigabytes" are a thousand megabytes. Then, of course, you have "terabytes", which are a thousand gigabytes -- lots of bytes. Lots of bits. Lots of information.

A "meme": This in an interesting word. It's become very popular these days on the Internet.

When someday sees a picture or a video or any sort of image and it becomes very, very popular, people start to take that image and put it in a different context, okay? For example, maybe a few months ago there was a picture of a guy who was called "the most photogenic guy in the world". A guy, you know, handsome guy, smiling, everybody thought, "Oh, what a great picture." Suddenly you see his picture in every situation. You see big sumo wrestlers with the guy's face. He's one of the sumo wrestlers. You see somebody biking or running -- the guy's face. You see a wedding picture with the guy standing right there. So that is a "meme". Basically, it's a copied image or an idea that spreads and is used in different

contexts. 

"Domain": "Domain" is basically a website. 

The "URL" is the address. So for example: www.name.com. So this whole line that you put in the top bar of your Internet Explorer -- whatever, Mozilla Firefox -- this is the "URL". That's the address, and this is the domain: engvid.com. "Views": "Views" means how many times your site or your video or your picture or your post has been looked at. So now, you have to think about "see", "watch", "look", and "view". You've got another word in the mix now. If you go to YouTube, most videos will have underneath: number of times -- number of views: how many people have seen this.

Next, we have "SPAM". "SPAM" is junk email, garbage email. People send you advertisements,

or sometimes the SPAM is used for the phishing. It's just garbage email that you don't really want to look at -- you want to avoid. Sometimes it has a virus. A "virus" is bad information that will destroy your computer. "SPAM" comes from the meat, the brand name "SPAM", which is meat in a can. Now, the problem is nobody actually knows what's in this meat, what is

in the can. It's mystery meat. Just like this email is mystery email; you don't really want

to touch it; you don't really want to ingest it in any way, shape, or form. 

And, of course, we have "cookies". Not like "Mmm, cookies!" Not that kind of cookie. "Cookies" are pieces of information that a website that you go to... You go to a website. The server

-- the company that has the website -- sends information to your computer. That information 

stays on your computer. Every time you go back and forth to this website, they see what you are doing, and they can customize the delivery of their website to you. So they know what you like, what other websites you've been to, so they know which advertisements to give you, they know how to set up their website so that you like it. You can erase cookies, and every once in a while you should erase cookies and clean your computer. Okay. Hopefully this is all very helpful to you in protecting yourself and using the Internet and understanding things you're reading about in the Internet. You can also make sure, if you want to make sure how to use these words, go to www.engvid.com. There is a quiz there that you can practice these words. And, of course, go to YouTube. See how many views this lesson has gotten on YouTube, and come see us again.

 Bye.

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