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.