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They should know and be able to use these words: browser, download, search engine, title bar, menu bar, toolbar, address box, link.

Tuning-in

Task 1

This task develops a modern study skill - knowing how to best locate information in the World Wide Web. The techniques that students need to acquire are similar to those they would use to access information in more traditional resources such as libraries. Give the students a limited amount of time to do the activity in groups, then write the answers the groups propose on the board. Where there is disagreement, groups must justify their choice. If the class have access to the Internet, they should try to locate this information, perhaps for homework, and report back.

Key

1. Health: Diseases, Drugs

2. Entertainment: Movies

3. Reference: Dictionaries

4. News and Media: Current events

5. Reference: Phone numbers

6. Science: Astronomy

7. Society & Culture: Religion

8. Business & Economy: Employment

Reading

Task 2

Treat this as a scanning exercise, and allow students a very limited time to scan the screens and match them with the titles of the webpages.

Key

1 entertainment 2 news 3 education 4 sport

Task 3

Each page contains a number of clues which will help students make the correct match. Ask students to justify their choice, and list on the board the clues they use. In this way, you can make overt some of the strategies the more successful readers in the class employ. For example, text B contains words such as sport, fan, football, team, league, fixture, player, any one of which will help students to make the correct match.

If students have Internet access, they can find these webpages or similar at: www.cnn.com (This is a good site for more advanced students to improve their reading and listening comprehension.) web.ukonline.co.uk/members/rw.sweet/soccer www.nbc.com/entertainment www.ucmp.berkeley.edu

Key

A news B sport

C entertainment D education

Task 4

Even if students are not familiar with a web browser screen, they should be able to identify most of these features. Address box and links are labelled on the screen. You can help them with the others by encouraging them to identify the features using their knowledge of general English: the menu bar offers a list of choices like a restaurant menu, the toolbar provides a selection of buttons to help you perform different tasks, and the title bar comes at the top of the screen like the title of an article. With an advanced class, mention other features not shown on this portion of the screen: scroll bar and status bar. The former is on the right-hand side of the screen and allows you to scroll through the page quickly. The latter is at the bottom of the screen and provides information on links in the page you are currently viewing.

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Listening

Task 5

As a pre-listening task, ask students to explain or guess the function of all ten of the toolbar buttons. The icons will help them. Don't comment on their answers until you correct Task 6. If you do the exercise orally in class, you could ask the students to write brief summaries of the functions of all the buttons as a follow-up exercise or for homework.

Task 6

Key

1 Stop 2 Favorites 3 Refresh

4 Back 5 Home

The functions of the other buttons are:

Forward: moves to the webpage.that was visited after

the current webpage

Search: connects to a search engine website to allow

the user to find webpages

Print: prints the current webpage

Font: changes the size of the characters on the screen

Mail: starts the email program.

Language work

Demonstrate how -ing forms can act like nouns by making a simple substitution table on the board.

Activity

football Playing football is good exercise.

the Web Surfing the Web is very popular with

students.

study Studying hard can be difficult.

shops Shopping online saves time.

Elicit further examples from the class.

Explain the grammar rule that -ing forms are also used after prepositions.

Task 7

This is best done as an individual written task. Point out that with phrasal verbs, such as back up, keep up, it is the verb part, and not the preposition, which takes the -ing form, e.g. backing up, keeping up.