In your own words, say what the words in bold mean in these sentences.
- A new law has given e-signatures the same legal status as handwritten ones.
- E-learning will become more and more common as an alternative to traditional learning.
- We have e-enabled everything you need to study on the internet.
- E-books are selling faster than traditional books.
- The dotcom economy has attracted hundreds of new businesses hoping to make a fortune.
- With this smartphone, you’ll never need a tablet or a laptop!
- Parental controls provided by ISPs are vital these days.
- I send about 40 texts per day. It’s very addictive.
Possible Answer
- E-signatures are a way of identifying yourself on the internet with a unique code or name, which you can use, for example, to agree to pay for goods.
- E-learning means taking courses over the internet instead of going to a school or college to do your studies.
- E-enabled here means that all the study materials can be accessed and worked with through the internet.
- E-books are books which you buy from the internet, and which you then read on your computer, tablet, e-reader or smartphone.
- The dotcom economy refers to internet companies, whose web addresses typically end in ‘.com’, e.g. a company that sells bicycles over the internet might call itself newbikes.com, which would be read aloud as ‘new bikes dot com’.
- A tablet is a very thin (and often quite small) portable computer used mostly for email and online activities.
- Parental controls are controls on the computer which allow parents to decide which websites their children can visit and to restrict certain activities.
- I can’t stop doing this activity; I want to do it all the time and can’t stop myself.
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