Exercise 1. Change the sentences by adding emphasis to the verb. Then translate the sentences with emphatic construction into Russian. 1. This had the undesirable effect of missing important events.
2. At present companies know how to pragmatically use big data.
3. Knowing how to pragmatically use big data helps to gain new insights.
4. Facebook handles a tsunami of photographs every day.
5. Facebook users upload more than 900 million photos a day.
6. Facebook stored roughly 250 billion images last year.
7. Some companies went to the enormous effort of analyzing data using the traditional tools.
8. Companies analyzed data in the past, but they were forced to work with snapshots of data.
9. The modern tools for data analysis produce results in a reasonable time frame.

Exercise 2. Use emphatic constructions in answers to the following questions about smartphones.

Example A: – Do you use headphones to listen to music? – I do use headphones to listen to music, but when I’m at home alone I prefer to use speakers.
Example B: – Do you use headphones to listen to music? – I do not use headphones to listen to music now, because they are broken, but I do want to buy new ones because I do need them!

1. Do you have a lot of applications on your phone? – I do have a lot of applications, but …
2. Did you make sense of all the functions/features that your phone has?
3. Does your friend sometimes take snapshots of you?
4. Does your phone measure your internet traffic automatically?
5. Do most of your friends have an Android operational system on their phones?
6. Did you think of buying a new phone for yourself?
7. Do you think your phone is a useful tool for your studies?
8. Does it require a lot of efforts to find and retrieve necessary information on your phone?
9. Do you know roughly the volume of free memory space on your phone?