Unit 5: e-commerce. Lesson 1

Appendix 7. Hometask
S peak about LAN and topology using the chart.


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TOPIC: Unit 6: Networking. The Internet. The World Wide Web. Components of the Internet.

LESSON MATERIALS

A PPENDIX 1. LEAD IN ACTIVITY.
Look at the picture and discuss with your partner these questions.
1. What comes to your mind when you come across with the acronym www?
2. What do you understand under the statement “file transfer protocol”?
3. What is the difference between WWW and the Internet?

APPENDIX 2. GLOSSARY.
R ead new words and write paraphrases of the new words’ definitions by your own.

APPENDIX 3. VIDEO. HISTORY OF THE WWW
Watch the video and discuss these questions.
1. Why it is hard to explain what the web would be like?
2. Who was the creator of the WWW?
3. In what sphere the WWW first conducted?
4. When it was full-fledged used?
5. When the author of the WWW wrote first proposal and second proposal?
6. When CERN management decided the web should act as an open standard for all to use?
7. When and where the first international conference on the WWW was held?
APPENDIX 4. READING.
Read the text and do given exercises.
A What the Web is
The World Wide Web, Web or WWW is a network of documents that works in a hypertext environment, i.e. using text that contains links, hyperlinks to other documents.
The files, web pages, are stored in computers, which acts as servers. Your computer, the client, uses a web browser, a special program to access and download them. The web pages are organized in websites, groups of pages located on the Web, maintained by a webmaster, the manager of a website.
The Web enables you to post and access all sorts of interactive multimedia information and has become a real information highway.