Introduction
Warm up activity
1a. Do you have a compute at home?
b. What kind of compute do you have ?
2a. Do you want a new computer?
b. What kind of computer do you want?
3a. Do you like to play computer games?
b. What computer games do you like to play?
4a. Do you use e-mail?
b. How often do you use e-mail?
5a. Do you think computers are important for students?
b. Why do you think computers are important for students?
6a. Do you want a job that uses computer?
b. What kind of job do you want?
7a. Can you use at least three types of software?
b. What types of soft ware can you use?
8a. Do you ever surf the Web?
b. What websites do you visit?
Match these words-processing terms with their definitions.
Click file(document) cursor window highlight menu icon word processor
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1. a list of computer options |
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2. A box on the screen that shows information |
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3. a small picture or a symbol |
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4. text or other data stored together with a special name |
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5. software for creating text files (e.g. Microsoft Word) |
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6. press and release the button on the mouse |
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7. a little arrow on the screen that moves when you move the mouse |
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8. select text/images with mouse |
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New Cut and Paste Copy Close print Open Save Save as
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1. duplicate highlight /images to put somewhere else |
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2. preserve the contents of a document |
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3. cut text/images form one place and put them somewhere else |
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4. open an existing document |
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5. create a new document |
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6. sent the contents of a document to the printer |
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7. close the document without quitting the word processor |
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8. save the contents of a document under a new file name |
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Quiz cpu
What does CPU stand for?
Core processing unit
Computer processing unit
Central processing unit
When was the first CPU introduced?
1961
1971
1981
Out of what material are computer chips made?
Plastic
Silicon
Metal
The width of the smallest wire on a computer chip is typically measured in:
Millimeters
Microns
Nanometers
Which of the following is not part of a computer chip's job?
Performing mathematical operations
Moving data from one memory location to another
Starting up the computer
To what do buses and lines connect in a computer chip?
ROM
RAM
ROM and RAM
What does ROM stand for?
Read-only memory
Random-only memory
Read-on memory
On a PC, what do the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) instructions do?
Load the operating system
Open latches
Test hardware in the machine
Computer chip designers create language instructions that the microprocessor reads. What part of the computer can translate the words from the instructions into bit patterns the chip can understand?
The assembler
The program counter
The ALU
About how much address space can a 64-bit microprocessor access?
4 GB
1,000 GB
One billion GB