Have you ever had to read a user guide in English? Here you have the chance to do it. You have the reading and some vocabulary and writing activities.
This is a reading about problems that may occur when installing the game Dungeon Siege. There are different comprehension, vocabulary and translation exercises.
This is a reading about a free Microsoft download that enables the Microsoft Office XP and 2003 programs Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. After the reading there are several exercises focused on vocabulary, reading for comprehension and translation.
The targeted vocabulary is the Operating System and Softaware. And it can cover grammar points such as: imperative and -ing forms after prepositions.
I think this is a very interesting reading. It consists of 6 pieces of news about new technologies that have been recently developed by computer engineers. It has a wide range of activities covering reading, speaking and writting skills. It is ideal to introduce or practice on the present perfect tense.
Here I present you with a worksheet to practice the Present Continuous. It contains several exercises to complete affirmative, negative or interrogative sentences in present continuous. And there is a gap filling exercise where students have to complete a messenger conversation with verbs provided in a box. This practice is intended for the students in 1ESI, but it can also be used in 2ESI.
Here you have some practice to start working with the present perfect. It includes some exercises and a brief email to fill using the present perfect.
Specifying through compound nouns is a MUST for all learners of English for Computer Science. Don’t miss it. It includes some practice and a funny game to be played in pairs.
The passive voice is very important in English; it’s much more used than in Spanish. And when reading texts about computers you’ll find loads of passive structures, that’s whay I think it’s very important to work on this structure. Here you’ll find exercises and a little text about Networks to translate and work with.
In this worksheet you’ll find some practice on prepositions of place (on, over, behind, in front of…) and phrases indicating location (at the top, in the center…). It also includes revision on the structure there is… there are…
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Targeted vocabulary: prepositions of place, parts of a motherboard, the computer workstation.
This vocabulary worksheet is designed to make students aware of the many advantatges of a good vocabulary organisation. Schemes and diagrams are very useful tool for vocabulary management and memorisation. The students will work on hardware vocabulary and practice different ways of organising the new words.
This is the second of the three vocabulary units that we are going to deal with in the first term. It’ll prove very useful for students in reading and writing about hardware installation or maintenance procedures. You’ll find an introduction to the new words and some activities to work on them.
This is the first on-line listening practice for the students of 2CFM. Watch this video and answer these questions in a comment.
1. What type of processor is she using?
2. What type of socket does the processor need?
3. How fast is the processor?
4. What type of memory does this motherboard support, DDR1 or DDR2?
5. What type of video card is she using?
6. What kind of hard drive is she using?