Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and exercises for Electronics for Baccalaureate

Unit 16: Internet Connectivity

Assistant: …so that’s £549 including VAT. Is there anything else I can help you with?

Customer: Well, would you mind explaining how I access the Internet with this computer? I don’t think I really even understand what the Internet is! Wait a minute, I’m going to write this down.

Defining the Global Network

Assistant: Of course. Well, basically, the Internet is a global network of computer networks, which allows users to share all kinds of information and computer resources. The system is made up of networks interconnected all over the world, from universities and large corporations to commercial online systems and non-profit organizations…

Customer: OK, that sounds complicated enough! And can I access the...

Argumentative Text Features

Morphosyntactic Linguistic Features

• An argumentative text can be written in first person singular (I think), in first person plural (plural inclusive, we believe), or impersonal (is considered).
• These texts have a dialogic character: the sender invites the recipient to follow their reasoning and adopt their point of view (e.g., "dear reader").
• Explanatory adjectives, adverbs, and syntactic constructions that indicate doubt, desire, or possibility, as well as exclamatory statements, often appear.
• Moralizing elements that indicate the involvement of the issuer in the speech, such as "frankly," "quite frankly," etc., are common.

Lexical-Semantic Features

• The lexical-semantic plane in argumentative texts stresses connotation

Unit 12

Visitor: Hello there. I’m thinking of buying a USB flash drive and I’ve heard you’re presenting a new device at this show. Could I see it?

Salesperson: Of course. This is the new Dragon flash drive, a compact flash memory drive that acts like a portable hard drive.

Visitor: And what’s the storage capacity?

Salesperson: Well, this model here can hold 16 gigabytes of data. We also have drives of 64 gigs, but they’re more expensive. The drive consists of a USB connector covered by a removable cap, a mass storage controller, and a flash memory chip. It also includes a write-protect switch and password protection.

Visitor: You’re getting a bit too technical for me! Does it connect like a normal drive?

Salesperson: Yes, you just plug...

**Listening: "Listen and Do"**

Listen and do activities require an action as a response. This allows you to immediately check if children understand or if they do not.

**1. Giving Instructions**

Some instructions that teachers can give to children in class are: "Okay, sit down, please," "Okay, everybody, stop talking now and listen carefully."

**2. Listening and Identifying**

When children do "listening and identifying" activities, they are practicing a basic language skill: listening, making sense of English words and phrases, and acquiring meaning and sound together.

For these activities, you can use the classroom and all the things the children can see, such as wall charts, pictures, or objects that children create.

**3. Listening and Doing: Total

SCR Construction

A thyristor, or SCR, consists of four P-N-P-N layers and has three PN junctions (J1, J2, J3) in series. It has three terminals: Anode, Cathode, and Gate. The Gate terminal is attached to the P-type layer near the Cathode terminal. The two-transistor model shows that an SCR is a combination of one PNP transistor and one NPN transistor.

The emitter of the PNP transistor is taken as the Anode terminal, the emitter of the NPN transistor is taken as the Cathode, and the base of the PNP is taken as the Gate terminal. The base of the PNP is connected to the collector of the NPN, and the collector of the PNP is connected to the base of the NPN transistor.

Advantages of SCRs:

• Easy to turn ON
• Can handle large voltage, current, and power
• Possible

Predicative Complement

A predicative complement modifies two parts of speech simultaneously: the verb and the subject, or the verb and the direct object. It describes a quality or state of the subject or direct object as a result of the verb's action.

Characteristics:

• It can be an adjective or a noun phrase.
  • When an adjective, it agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies (subject or direct object). Example: Ella encontró la puerta abierta. (She found the door open.)
  • When a noun phrase, it identifies or classifies the subject or direct object as a result of the verb's action. Example: Nombraron a Juan delegado. (They named Juan delegate.)
• It typically agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies.
• It should not be confused with

Unit 10: Exposure and Focus on Form

What are Exposure and Focus on Form?

• Exposure: Learning a language by hearing and/or reading it, without studying it
  • We then learn the language by picking it up (learn without realizing it) → we learn our first language like this
• Focus on form: Notice how a language is pronounced and written, and how its grammar and vocabulary are formed and used
  • This is how we learn a foreign language

* In order to learn a language, it is necessary to interact

Key Concepts

Main ways in which we learn a language:

1. Language acquisition (picking up language)

• Exposure (inside and outside the classroom)
  • Teachers can use comprehension or language tasks, and graded readers
• Silent period
  • We need to hear and read the language just beyond our

P.S: every day,sometimes,always,never/I don't-doesn't

Vocabulary for Urban Living

Neighbour: person living near you

Zip code: code of letters and digits added to a postal address

Post code: postal number for the area of the city where you live in

Parking lot: place where vehicles can be parked in

Car park: place where vehicles can be parked in

Elevator: small room that carries people/goods up and down a building

Lift: device that carries people/goods up and down inside buildings

Make a name for yourself: become famous/respected by a lot of people

Make a start on/get going: begin something

Get the picture: understand what you are told

Have something against: object to something

To do your utmost: do your best

Have no option (but to do something): not have the possibility to do something else

Make a list of:...