SESSION 9

 SESSION 9: ELECTRONIC MAIL

Objectives

1. Learn the vocabulary of electronic mail in English.
2. Set up an email account.
3. sendemails with attachments, to multiple recipients etc...

Previous questions:

1. Have you got an email account? Yes, we do.
2. How often do you send emails? We usually send emails when we do a project.
3. If you don't have an email account, you must set one. There are free email accounts on the Web.
Some of the most popular are: www.hotmail.com / www.gmail.com / www.edu365.cat

ACTIVITY 1

Put the E-mail term next to the correct definition.

1. The main part of an email where you write information you want to comunicate ➜Message
2. Click here to send your message ➜Send
3. The line where you write the title of your message ➜Subject
4. The cc; the line where you write the email adresses of other people who want to recieve your message ➜Cc:
5. The blind copy line; an adress here gets a copy of the message, but other recipients don't know➜Bcc:
6. Click here to specify the file you want to attach and send with the message ➜Attachments
7. The line where you write the email address of the person your sending your message to ➜To:
8. Click here to save your unfinished message without sending it ➜Save Draft
9. Click here to cancel your message ➜Cancel
10. Click here to check the spelling of your message ➜Spell Check

SESSION 14

 INTERNET SAFETY LEARN ABOUT HACKERS VIRUSES AND INTERNET SAFETY AND IMPORTANT WORLD ISSUES

PLAY THE GAME OF PETER PACKET. Learn how th packets of information are carried through the web.

In this website you'll follow the adventures of Peter Packet in his trip to deliver his packets of information against viruses and hackers. Choose a level, "begginer" or "advanced".

Click on the "captions" icon to read and listen the information. Play the game and answer these questions:

1. What is a hacker? A person skilled with the use of computers that uses his talents to gain knowledge and steals data from the internet.

2. What is a virus? It's a computer program that damages other computers.

3. What is a router? A networking device that allows communication between multiple networks.

4. What can happen when packets of information are sent by internet? They can be intercepted by viruses and hackers.

Choose one of the three missions: Haiti, Zimbabwe or India and do all the activities.

OPTION 1 : HAITI

The problem of clean water in Haiti:

Facts about clean drinking water
1 billion peple in the world don't have acces to save drinking water.
Research shows that clean water allows residents in poor villages to hold jobs, grow food, open business and contribute on their community.
When families have acces to clean drinking water they can spend money on other important things like medicines, food and education.
Some 6000 children die every day from diseases get from drinking dirty water.
When fresh water is available, it is scarce.
One flush of your toilet uses as much water as the average person in a country like Haiti uses for a whole day's washing, drinking, cooking and cleaning.

Water problems in Haiti
Haiti is located on a small island in the Caribbean sea, and is bordered by the Dominican Republic. Haiti is not large country. In fact,it is slightly smaller than the state of Maryland.
While over three-quarters of Haiti is surronded by water, Haitians have a little access to fresh drinking water. 5 million of 8.5 million people in Haiti do not have acces to clean water.
Many Haitians suffer from dehydration-not drinking enough water- another illnesses caused by drinking poor water. Sadly, 1 of every 8 kids in Haiti dies before reaching age five.

Finding solutinons
Water purification systems can turn poor water into drinkable water.
In communities where people can buy and use these systems there's already a drop in the number of water-related illness.
Not everyone has enough money to buy a filter. With the help of goverment and some asositons, more adults and children will have acces to clean water.
With money,education and water filtration systems the quality of live in Haiti can be vastly improved.

 INTERNET SAFETY. The Internet has a wealth of information, but it can also be dangerous, especially for kids. How can kids be safe when they chat or blog or use Internet? Think about two aspects: technical safety and personal safety.

YOU MUST Protect your personal information, follow the rules,be careful and respect other users
YOU MUSN'T Give personal information to a stranger,  give someone your password.
YOU SHOULD Put your account in private, be responsable in the internet, add only people you know
YOU SHOULDN'T Let any account open in a public computer, have a public account,

Has anything dangerous ever happened to you when you were chatting or surfing the Internet? No.

SESSION 19

 IMAGES

 IMAGE FORMATS

ACTIVITY:

a) Find out the most common formats for images and write a short description of the features of them.
-JPG ➙ It's for creating and exchanging digital photographs
-GIF➙ Gradually being replaced by PNG
-PNG➙ Compress without losing image quality
-TIFF➙ Popular among graphic design, publishing and photography industry, also       popular among Apple users.

b) Which image format preserves quality better when it is compressed? The PNG fomat

c) Which formats are more suitable for web designs? 
 JPG ---best format colorful,complex images
GIF ----lineart, simple drawings, animations...
PNG----- produces better-looking images smaller files sizes than GIF

SESSION 7

In this session you are going to consolidate the vocabulary of computers and Internet tems.

INTERNET TERMS

1.
INTERNET TERMS
1. IT is an abbreviation for Information Technology ➜ TRUE

2. The Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are the same thing ➜ TRUE
3. A browser is a person who enjoys looking at the WWW ➜ TRUE
4. You can see pictures and words on-line but you cannot listen to sounds ➜ FALSE
5. You need the newest, fastest computers to use the Web ➜ FALSE
6. Most Internet users are men ➜ TRUE
7. @ is called "at" in English ➜ TRUE

2. Match the words to their definitions

A browser ➜ Software that lets you acces the WWW.

To download ➜ To get programs from the Internet.

To chat ➜ To have a conversation through the Internet by writing or speaking.

Email ➜ Letters you send by Internet.

A modem ➜ Wireless device that allows computers to connect to the Internet using a router.
Wi-Fi ➜ Thing that connects a computer to the Internet.
On-line ➜ When you are connected to the Internet.
Software ➜ Computer programs.

Scroll down/up ➜ Move the page up or down using the side tabs with your mouse.

3. Choose the best word to complete these sentences.

1. I use a fast modem to connect my computer to the Internet.
2. RealPlayer is computer software that you use to listen to music on the World Wide Web.
3. I always save my documents on floppy disks.
4. Chat is a good way of meeting other people on the Internet.
5. A beep is a sound your computer makes when there's an error.

4. Answer these questions.

1.  What is the difference between a Search Engine and Browser? Give examples of commercial names of both.

You use a Browser to access information on the Internet while you use a Search Engine to point you in the right direction of a website that relates to the words you type in. You have to use a Browser to get a Search Engine. A Browser for example it's Google Chrome, Mozilla, etc. A Search Engine for example it's Google search.

2. Which search engine do you use more? We use Google search.

3. Which browser do you use more? We use Google Chrome and Mozilla.