Date: Lesson Meeting people Lesson materials appendix lead in activity

APPENDIX 6. HOME TASK
APPENDIX 5. LISTENING.

Task 1: Sue wants to buy a new drive. Listen to her conversation with the sales assistant. Does she buy anything?

Listen again and answer the following question in written form:

1. 
   What is the storage capacity of the lomega eGo portable hard drive? -160 GB
   
2. 
   How much information can be stored on the Edge DiskGo model? -12 GB
   
3. 
   Which hard drive is good for mobile professionals? - lomega eGo
   
4. 
   How much does the lomega eGo drive cost? -68pounds
   
5. 
   How much does the Edge DiskGo cost? -55 pounds
   

Task 2: Do the exercises based on the text of the lesson: Disks and drives.

2.1. Look at the text of the lesson and find:

1 the CD and DVD formats that can be rewritten many times. –CD, DVD+RW

2 the CD and DVD formats that can be written to by the user only once

-CD-R, DVD-R

3 the CD and DVD formats that can be read by a computer but not written to -CD-ROM, DVD-ROM.

4 the type of cards used in digital cameras -memory card

5 a type of drive that plugs into a USB port and lets you share photos and music with

friends -Portable hard disk

6 the memory without moving parts; it is erasable, non-volatile and in small devices

–Computer chips

7 the expression that means to ‘initialize a disk and prepare it to receive data’

-format the drive