Exercise 1. Answer the following questions.
1) What is the main advantage/feature of the new iPod?
2) What possibilities does the iPod touch give to the users?
3) What should you do to start the music?
4) Where can you buy movies and TV shows for the iPod touch?
5) Is it possible to download new applications to iPod? How should you do this?
6) In what way can you control the music playback?
7) Can you see web on iPod touch the same way you see it on a computer? How is it possible?
8) Is writing an e-mail fast and easy? Why?
9) Can you find points of interest with the help of iPod touch? With the help of what feature is it possible?
10) Does iPod touch have useful applications and interesting features? What are they?
Exercise 2. Say True or False.
1) It is impossible to pair Bluetooth stereo headphones with iPod touch.
2) To start the music you should only tap the track from the list.
3) Tap once to switch between widescreen and fullscreen.
4) New applications can’t be downloaded wirelessly.
5) Before buying a song you may play a preview of it.
6) Voice Control gives you ability to control music playback in 15 languages.
7) For quick access to games and applications you may create up to 11 Home screens.
8) Built-in wireless access to the web allows you to search with Yahoo! and Google.
9) You should tap twice to switch keyboard between portrait to landscape.
10) Voice Memos will record even when you are surfing the web.
Exercise 3. Give the Russian equivalents.
1) to tap the display
2) available update
3) high-quality video
4) built-in Wi-Fi capability
5) music playback
6) to scroll though thumbnails
7) «shuffle» and «pause»
8) advanced web browser
9) intelligent keyboard
10) to switch from smth. to smth.
11) to find smth. by keywords
12) to communicate wirelessly
13) accessibility
14) useful applications
15) to adjust the volume
16) to arrange the icons
Exercise 4. Give the English equivalents.
1) карманный компьютер
2) просматривать сеть
3) загружать подкасты
4) давать доступ
5) возможность контролировать
6) воспроизведение музыки
7) прокручивать
8) расположить иконки
9) быстрый доступ
10) портативное устройство
11) ключевое слово
12) встроенный беспроводной доступ
13) проверять почту
14) записывать информацию
15) вырезать, копировать и вставить
16) совместимость
Exercise 5. Match each word with its meaning.
| 1) to scroll
| a) permit small alterations or movements so as to allow a desired fit, appearance, or result to be achieved
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| 2) to arrange
| b) read or survey (data files), typically via a network
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| 3) to adjust
| c) transfer (a program or data) into memory
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| 4) to browse
| d) to put into a proper, systematic, or decorative order
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| 5) to search
| e) modify (something) to suit a particular individual or task
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| 6) to customize
| f) try to find something by looking or otherwise seeking carefully and thoroughly
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| 7) to zoom in
| g) move displayed text or graphics in a particular direction on a computer screen in order to view different parts of them
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| 8) to rotate
| h) to increase rapidly the magnification of the image of a distant object by means of a zoom lens
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| 9) to load
| i) move in a circle around an axis or center
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Exercise 6. Compare the technical details of the 1st Generation iPod and the 2nd Generation iPod. What are the advantages of the second iPod.