SESSION 6: COMPUTERS AND YOU

1. Answer these questions about the computer you are using. Then
compare your answers with a partner.
1. What brand is your computer?
2. What is the operating system of your computer?

DOS WINDOWS

MacOS Lynux

3. Which web browser(s) does your computer use?

4. How many buttons are there on your mouse?
5. Does your computer have a CD-ROM drive? And a DVD-drive? And
USB drives?
6. Find these keys on your keyboard. Check each key as you find it and
translate them into Catalan or Spanish:

write the symbol next to its name

Return (enter)

Space bar

shift

Tab

Delete

Control

Escape
For these keys, write the symbol next to them, for example “hypen or dash
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hyphen or dash

period or dot

comma

colon

right parenthesis

slash

at symbol

2. Match these word-processing terms with their definitions. Then

compare your answers with a partner.

click file cursor window

highlight menu icon word processor

1.a list of computer operations

2. a box on the screen that shows information

3. a small picture or symbol

4. text or other data stored together with a special name

5. software for creating text files

6.press and release the button on the mouse

7.a little arrow on the screen that moves when you move the
mouse

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8.select text/images with the mouse

3. Match these word processing commands with their definitions

below.

new cut and paste copy close

print open save save as

1. Duplicate highlighted text /images to put somewhere else: ……………

2. Preserve the contents of a document: ………………………………….
3. Cut text/images from one place and put them somewhere else:
………………………………….
4. Open an existing document: ……………………………………………
5. Create a new document: ………………………………………………..
6. Send the contents of a document to the printer: ………………………..
7. Close the document without quitting the word processor: …………….
8. Save the contents of a document under a new file name:
………………………………….