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Lekcja 009 THE INTERNET
In the past computers were as big as a room. Today you can put them in your lap, if you have a laptop, that is.
A PC - your personal computer, and your personal friend.
For some children working on a PC is like using a pen and paper. They have grown up with the computer. They can now study and do their homework with the help of a PC and the Internet. There's no need for books - just log on to the Internet and access the libraries of the world!
But some people can spend hours and hours a day surfing the net. It's a new leisure activity, but also a new addiction. A special website has been set up to help children and adults who can't stop surfing the net. So - beware of the WWW!
lap podołek, tu: kolana
laptop komputer przenośny
PC - Personal Computer komputer osobisty
to log on wlogować się
to access wejść do, mieć dostęp do
surfing the net serfować po internecie
leisure activity sposób spędzania wolnego czasu
addiction nałóg
website strona internetowa
WWW - World Wide Web komputerowa sieć internetu
Lekcja 010 THE LONELY SURFER
There's a report on the psychological effects of surfing the Internet. These effects are: depression and loneliness. The report suggests that an interactive medium, like the computer, is no more healthy than the more passive medium - the idiot box. At least people watch television with somebody. But if you're surfing the net, you spend less time with your friends and family.
It was perhaps the ultimate experiment in modern living. Could four very different people meet all their needs for food, clothing and entertainment just by shopping on the Internet? Their only contact with the outside world was via the Internet. They all emerged from their one hundred hours of solitude fit and well, clutching the items they had successfully purchased electronically.
lonely surfer samotny internauta
psychological effects skutki psychologiczne
surfing the net serfowanie po internecie
depression depresja
loneliness samotność
interactive interaktywny, podlegający wspólnemu oddziaływaniu
passive bierny, pasywny
the idiot box (pogardliwie) telewizor
ultimate szczytowy, krańcowy
modern living współczesny styl życia
to meet the needs zaspokajać potrzeby
clothing ubranie, odzież
entertainment rozrywka
to emerge wyłonić się
solitude samotność
fit and well cali i zdrowi, w dobrej kondycji
to clutch trzymać kurczowo
to purchase zakupić
Lekcja 011 THE INTERNET (THE WORLD WIDE WEB)
The Internet is the world's largest computer network. It uses the telephone system to link together hundreds of millions of computers all over the world.
If you've been asleep for the past five years, one of the things that may be puzzling you today is all this talk about the Internet, e-mail and the world wide web. Suddenly, all important companies have web sites and use e-mail for much of their daily communication. These technologies are revolutionizing the way businesses work, just as telephones and computers have in the past.
You can shop around on the Internet. Soon you'll be able to compare many more prices than ever before and discover the best price for every product much more easily.
You can shop around on the Internet, that's great. But, who do you complain to, if you're cheated by a company on the other side of the world? And how can you be sure that the products you find on the net are legal in your own country?
computer network sieć komputerowa
to link łączyć
to puzzle dziwić, intrygować
e-mail poczta elektroniczna
to revolutionize rewolucjonizować
to shop around szukać okazji, najniższej ceny
to compare prices porównywać ceny
to complain składać skargę, reklamację, narzekać
to be cheated być oszukanym
Lekcja 012 ROBOTS
Robots are already replacing us.
They take over mundane human jobs in car factories... assembling parts... and in Hollywood, too!
Yes, some of the most advanced robots in the world today are employed in Hollywood to provide special effects in movies such as the Star Wars.
When we think about future employment we often imagine that machines will take over human jobs in factories and other places where the work seems to be mainly physical. But, in fact, it may be doctors, lawyers and accountants who should be most worried.
Apparently, it's more difficult for machines to deal with the physical world of space and colour than with systematic knowledge - the type of knowledge that earns doctors and lawyers big salaries today. Robots can't think for themselves yet, but computers are increasingly good at reproducing the knowledge of experts....
What about lawyers - are they human beings? Well, anyway, it's more likely that your doctor or lawyer will be a computer programme in future than that a robot will turn up to fix the leaking tap in your bathroom. Remember - robots can't deal with the physical world of space and colour, bathrooms and leaking taps....
robots roboty
mundane przyziemny, prozaiczny
to assemble składać, montować
advanced zaawansowany, nowoczesny
to employ zatrudniać
employment zatrudnienie
to take over przejąć
lawyer prawnik
accountant dyplomowany księgowy
to deal with uporać się z
space przestrzeń
to earn zarabiać
salary pensja, uposażenie
to turn up pojawić się
to fix zreperować
leaking tap cieknący kurek
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