ICT in business
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Activity 1

A/ Words with the prefix tele-

The following words are recurrent in the article: telework –teleworking – telecommute – telecommuting. Many other words can be formed with the prefix ‘tele' which means doing something from a distance.

Provide words beginning with the prefix' tele' for which the following definitions are given:

1- tele = sending pictures through the air over distances to be seen on a screen.

2- tele = a device used to send sound or some other signal over long distances by waves.

3- tele = an electric system for sending messages by a code over wires from a distance.

4- tele = instrument for viewing distant objects (as in outer space).

5- tele = a message in code sent by electronic means over wires from a distance.

6- tele = a photographic system using telescopic lenses to produce large images of distant objects.

7- tele = a conference of individuals in different locations, as by speaker-phone, closed-circuit television, etc.

8- tele = Use of telecommunications technology for medical diagnosis and patient care when the provider and client are separated by distance.

9- tele = Thinking the same thing as someone else.

10- tele A scientifically unexplainable power to move objects without physical contact, as by means of psychic forces from a distance.

11- tele Using the telephone to promote and sell goods and services

12- tele a device providing a written script from a distance, visible to a performer or speaker on television, but not to the audience

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