Having Trouble identifying writing bodies and specs

["JimBOB" <house@theprairy>]

I've figured out that a procedure and a function are subprograms,
although when I see
task body job_to_do is
type message_sender is ...
end job_to_do;

I tell myself that I'm not completely sure of whats being implemented.
because I get confused by the "...", those 3 dots cause me great stress!
The fact that the program says "task body" tells me its part of a body as
opposed to a specification, but does that mean its an ".ads" file and not
an ".adb" file? If the task is not a "body" where does that belong also?
Maybe I have to build one or either of these into an ".ali" file, would I do
this
in my "adainclude" directory?
Ok, I know about types, parts of an array.. yeh.
While I'm here, I also get confused when I see this     **   between two
variables. Please explain what theyre doing. I did think that they were
multiplying, but now I'm not so sure.
Much Appreciated!
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