GERMAN ON THE WEB: Reading German
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ACTIVITY 5

 

Datenverarbeitung
Elemente der elektronischen Datenverarbeitung

 

  5a)

Take a look at the photo and caption above.
Use your knowledge of cognates, compound nouns and word formation patterns to decipher the words.

What does Datenverarbeitung mean?


  5b)

What could the text be about? If you're not sure, just guess.

 


  5c)

Scan the text quickly, then answer questions d) to f) below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


  5g)

The text probably contains several compound nouns that you don't understand.
You might have to reduce them to their components before looking them up.

Look at the three compound nouns below. Try to deduce their construction and give their English definitions.


 


  5h)

Can textual content be graphically rendered?

Yes. For those students more visually oriented, a diagram of a text may be helpful in revealing content and structure. For the text below, we have already drawn such a diagram for you. You just have to find the key words for the blank boxes. Look for enumerations in the text.

Fill in the missing words in the diagram, disregarding articles. Correct answers will turn green and take you atomatically to the next slot.
If you don't find them all, click on the SHOW ANSWERS button to see all of the correct answers.