Some Kbytes from Peter Norton`s life

1. When was Peter Norton born?

2. When did Peter Norton start programming?

3. What was his aim?

4. Where did he work before founding a company?

5. How did he call the company?

6. What was the stock of it?

7. What was the 1^st product of the company?

8. What university did he graduate from?

9. How does Peter Norton save people?

10. What is his BMW number?

 

Nobody knew an ordinary programmer Peter Norton in 1981. After being involved in programming since 1969, he bought one of PCs that were just appearing on the market. Just for fun. In 1982 at the age of thirty nine he left his job in the aerospace industry and founded his own firm “PETER NORTON COMPUTING”, which was supplying utilities for IBM-compatible PCs at that time.

The stock of the company was $ 30000. The only man who was working in the company was Peter Norton himself. The main product at that time was THE NORTON UTILITIES BATCH which allowed the users to recreate lost data. Gradually Norton`s name was getting famous to millions and his products became a “brand-name”.

Peter Norton is a bachelor of mathematics from the famous Berkeley University. At that time he became and still is the presiding genius in the PC industry. For more than 20 years Norton has been saving people from catastrophes with computers. He enables them to manipulate data easily, protects from viruses and provides data security. His BMW number – “Mr. IBM PC” – proves that.

Словообразование:

1. Образуйте существительные с помощью данных суффиксов и переведите их:

-ity: equal, active, productive;

-ance: important, assistant, distant;

-ence: different, dependent, present, exist;

-ency: efficient, dependent;

-ness: great, black, rough;

-age: use, pass, break, leak.

 

 

2. Выделите суффиксы существительных и переведите слова на русский язык:

utility, the usage of a computer, the productivity of a worker, storage, removability, reference, package, occurrence, insufficiency, consistency, correctness, flexibility, correspondence, compatibility.

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Чтение

1. Правила чтения гласной u.

2. Правила чтения буквосочетания th.

Грамматика

1. Степени сравнения прилагательных.

2. Времена группы Perfect Active и Perfect Continuous Active.

3. Причастие II (Participle II).

Диалог

A talk between Tom and his mother.

Словообразование

Суффиксы прилагательных -ful, -less, -ic, -al, -able, -ant, -ent, -ive.

Суффиксы наречий –ly.

Словарный минимум

1. reply	[rı́ plaı]	ответ
2. amount	[ǝ́ maunt]	количество
3. producer	[prǝ́ dju:sǝ]	производитель
4. range	[reındʒ]	ряд, спектр
5. to break (broke, broken)	[breık]	ломать
6. to begin (began, begun)	[bı́ gın]	начинать
7. to drive (drove, driven)	[draıv]	запускать, управлять
8. to perform	[pǝ́ fɔ:m]	выполнять
9. to become (became, become)	[bı́ kʌm]	становиться
10. to design	[dı́ zaın]	разрабатывать
11. to develop	[dı́ velǝp]	развивать
12. to accomplish	[ǝ́ kʌmplıʃ]	выполнять, достигать
13. to accumulate	[ǝ́ kju:mjǝleıt]	накапливать
14. to change	[tʃeındʒ]	изменять
15. to accept	[ǝḱ sept]	принимать
16. to undergo (underwent, undergone)	[ʌndǝ́ gou]	подвергать (ся)
17. powerful	[́ pauǝful]	мощный
18. wide	[waıd]	широкий
19. narrow	[́ nærou]	узкий
20. important	[ıḿ pɔ:tnt]	важный
21. quick	[kwık]	быстрый
22. numerous	[́ nju:mǝrǝs]	многочисленный