SESSION 6: Computers and you


SESSION 6: COMPUTERS AND YOU

Answser these questions about the computer you are using. Then compare your answers with a partner

1.What brand is your computer?

Our computer is BENQ

2.What is the opertating system of your computer?

Our computer uses Windows

3. Witch web browser/s does your computer use?

It uses Google Chrome and Firefox

4.How many bottons does your mouse have?

It has three bottons

5.does your computer have a CD-ROM drive? And a DVD-drive? And a USB drive?

It does not have a CD-ROM drive and it also doesn't have a DVD-drive.

Althow it does have a USB drive.

6.Find these keys on your key board. Check each key as you find it and translate them into catalan or spanish:
write the symbol next to its name.

Return ( enter) - Tornar
Space Bar - colon Barra d'espai
shift -
Tab -
Delete - Esborrar
Control - Control
Escape -

2. Match these word-processing terms with their definitions. Then compare your answers with a partner.

1.a list of computer operations - windows
2.a box on the screen that shows information - menu
3.a small picture or symbol - icon
4.text or other data stored together with a special name - file
5.softwere for creating text files - word processor
6.press and realese the button on the mouse - click
7.a little arrow on the screen that moves when you move the mouse - cursor
8.select text/imatges with the mouse - highlight
3. Match these word processing comands with their definitions below:

 1. Duplicate highlighted text/images to put somewhere else:  copy
2. Preserve the contents of a document: save
3. Cut text/images from one place and put them somewhere else: cut and paste
4.Open an existing document: open
5. Create a new document: new
6.Send the contents of a document to the printer: print
7. Close the document without quitting the word processor: close
8. Save the contents of a document under a new file name: save as


Comments

  1. Maria Rosa Batlle4 February 2018 at 07:36

    Hi! for exercise 6 you need to translate the keys on the left column and write the symbol for the ones on the right column, for example:
    colon : / dash _

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SESSION 19: Image formats, storing, publishing and sharing

PART 1: IMAGE FORMATS. ACTIVITY. a) Find out the most common formats for images and write a short description of the features of each of them JPEG: JPEG is short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and is the most popular among the image formats used on the web. JPEG files are very ‘lossy’, meaning so much information is lost from the original image when you save it in a JPEG file. This is because JPEG discards most of the information to keep the image file size small; which means some degree of quality is also lost. GIF GIF, short for Graphics Interchange Format, is limited to the 8 bit palette with only 256 colors. GIF is still a popular image format on the internet because image size is relatively small compared to other image compression types. GIF is most suitable for graphics, diagrams, cartoons and logos with relatively few colors. GIF is still the chosen format for animation effects. BMP The Windows Bitmap or BMP files are image files within the
Read more

SESSION 31: What is inside a computer?

Image
a. BIOS (Basic Input/Output System - 1 -  The BIOS setup program above is used to setup a computer's hardware.  The BIOS chip contains enough information to operate the computer all by itself. b. Microprocessor - 3 -  The microprocessor,   is the brain of the computer. The central processing unit, (or CPU), with its level 1 cache memory, contains the control unit and the arithmetic/logic unit, both working together as a team to process the computer's commands.   c. Drive Bays - 4 -  Drive bays are where the computer's drives are installed. CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives can only play disks. CD R/RW and DVD R/RW drives can both play and record to disks d. Memory - 7 -  A memory module has several memory chips. The computer uses this memory constantly to temporarily store information, (or data), while it is working with it.   e. Case Fan - 5 -  The case fan is in charge of keeping the computer cool. f. Chipset - 2 -  The chipset is the chip, or set of chips, t
Read more