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ACTIVITY 2 - The PC System

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ANGLÈS PROFESSIONAL SMX

What’s a computer?

COMPUTER ESSENTIALS
1. Discuss with your partners “What’s a computer?”

2. Look at the image. Then write a definition completing the sentences below:

It’s a…
It’s used for …
It receives…
It produces…

(From “Infotech “by Santiago Remacha. Cambridge University Press)

3. Complete the description

output drives monitor processing


Information data devices store

Computers are ______ used for ______ and storing ______.

They receive an input, the ______ that is collected and entered, and produce an ______.

This output are the results shown on the ______

Computers can ______ the data inside their memory or inside external hard ________

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4. What is a computer? Complete the diagram

5. What are the names of these peripherals? Are they input, output or storage?

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What’s a computer?

6. Classify these peripherals into input, output, storage. Sometimes there may be more
than one possible answer.

a) External drive g) Mouse


b) Hard disk drive h) Memory
c) Headphones i) Monitor
d) Optical drive j) Power supply unit
e) Keyboard k) Printer
f) Solid state drive l) Screen

7. Writing definitions. Use the vocabulary in bold to complete the definitions.

a) A computer _______________ hardware


and software.

b) Peripherals _______________ three types:


input, output and storage devices.

c) A word processing program


_______________ software which lets the
user create and edit text.

8. Write definitions using the vocabulary from the yellow box.

ROM memory
Database program

9. Test:

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zxgkxnb/test

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What’s a computer?

10. Game: go to links below, play the game and take a screenshot of your results

https://www.abcya.com/games/find_the_tech

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