SESSION 6: COMPUTERS AND YOU




       Exercise 1
      1. The brand of our computer is BenQ.
        2. The operating system of our computer is WINDOWS.
        3. Our computer use Google Chrome.
        4. In our computer mouse has two bottons
        5. Our computer has USB, CD and DVD drive.
        6. -Return (enter): retrocedir (entrar).                    -Hyphen or dash: -
            -Space bar: barra espaiadora.                             -Period or dot: .
            -Shift: moure.                                                     -Comma: ,
            -Tab: tabulador.                                                  -Colon: :
            -Delete: eliminar.                                               -Right parenthesis: )
            -Control: control.                                               -Slash: /    
            -Escape: escapar-se.                                           -At symbol: @

        Exercise 2
     1. A list of computer operations: menu.
       2. A box on the screen that shows information: window.
       3. A small picture or symbol: icon.
       4. Text or other data stored together with a special name: file.
       5. Software for creating text files: word processor
       6. Press and release the button on the mouse: click.
       7. A little arrow on the screen that moves when you move the mouse: cursor.
       8. Select text/images with the mouse: highlight.



        Exercise 3
       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.

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