English Unlimited HTL 2, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

124 Now and then 10 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE LOOK AGAIN EXTRAS 23 on time: not early or late in time: early or at the right time punctual: at the expected time Listen to Leonardo and Megan again. Tick ( 9 ) the sentences you hear. Which highlighted expressions are about: Compare your sentences and ask questions to find out more. Are your attitudes to time the same or different? Think about other places you’ve been to or know about. Do you think people’s attitudes to time there are similar to yours? Write three sentences about yourself with the expressions in 30a. Example: I’m always in a hurry to get to my classes. 1 doing things at the agreed time? 2 doing things quickly, often with stress? 3 doing things slowly, without stress? 1 I’m usually right on time 23 . 2 I always try to be on time , but I’m sometimes late. 3 I ’m in a hurry to get where I’m going. 4 People are always rushing to get somewhere. 5 People take their time having their breakfast. b b 30 a 31 a 32 Computers need two elements to function. These are: Complete the sentences with the words in the box. Match the abbreviations with the spelled-out forms and decide if they represent a piece of hardware or software. 33 34 Info point: Computer language hard drive data decoding stores address 1 A URL is used as the of a webpage, for example www.cambridge.org . 2 The CPU is always making important calculations and information. 3 A SSD data on computer chips and is an alternative to a . 4 HTTP is a standard way of sending to other computers. 1 hardware: physical parts of a computer 2 software: programs and instructions, usually in code Spelled-out form Hardware Software a Local Area Network b Wireless Local Area Network c World Wide Web d Solid State Drive e Central Processing Unit f Random Access Memory g Hypertext Transfer Protocol h Read Only Memory i Uniform Resource Locator Abbreviation 1 CPU 2 HTTP 3 LAN 4 RAM 5 URL 6 ROM 7 WWW 8 WLAN 9 SSD Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv