Reading: Living and working at university B A 1.5 Vocabulary for reading Developing vocabulary English-English dictionaries Find nine words or phrases in the Vocabulary box connected with computers Match the words to the meanings. Use a dictionary to check your answers. 1. domain. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. a set of websites, eg, ac an academic website, which share the same letters at the end a program which finds websites and web pages the way computers in different locations are linked together to share information one page on a website a set of web pages on the world wide web an entrance on the internet to a set of resources a program which damages computer documents or programs a connection between two internet documents a way of protecting your computer or documents on your computer Building background knowledge Complete the text below with words from the Vocabulary box. Make any necessary changes. Use a dictionary to check your ideas. At university, lecturers often give assignments with deadlines, for example: 'You must write 2,000 words on a particular topic by next Tuesday. You must do research for an assignment in the library or on the internet. This is called research. You must find out about the research and ideas of other people. However, sometimes you must do research. This is 'first' research. It means doing an yourself and analyze your C Developing independent learning the results. You must then 1. Study the extract from a dictionary What do the letters in brackets ( ) mean? 2. How many meanings of record does the extract show? 3. Use your dictionary to find the part(s) of speech and the meaning(s) of these words: save, access, mark record (w)/rekx:d/ 1. a piece of information in writing: Have you get a-of her nume? 2. a plastic disk with info ution on, usually music: CDs are more popular than cord (r) 'k:d nowadays 1. put indention in writing led the malo in a table 2. to put information The gp ae -ing a new all at the momen Vocabulary box data (n) domain (n) experiment (n) (the) internet (n) link (n) password (n) portal (n) primary (adj) record (n and v) search engine secondary (adj) topic (n) virus (n) web page (n) website (n) Theme 1: Reading