YOUNG+INTERNATES

 __**YOUNG INTERNET USERS**__ español] francés] inicio] toc

= = = =  = **OBJECTIVES** = = **CONTENTS** = = =
 * 1) Know Basic terms about Internet
 * 2) Using the Internet Services and in the different languages they are studying ( Spanish, English or French) students should express the following situations:
 * 3) Introduce one´s self and present the others.
 * 4) Express personal pleasures
 * 5) Talk about working-day activities
 * 6) Review concepts and learn grammar concepts
 * INTRODUCTION **

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Hi. We are the teachers who have developed this wiki. Our names are Ana María Gómez Lorenzo, a French teacher in the high school Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (Miajadas), Encarna Balsera Quintana and Carlos Ciriero Sánchez, both Computer teachers in the high schools Donoso Cortés and José Manzano in Don Benito. Our wiki has various exercises to learn the languages: Spanish, English and French using Internet. The contents of the activities include exercises about grammar, vocabulary, listening, researching (discussin tab), writing, reading and speaking. This wiki is user-friendly; with only a few clicks on the links you can access the webpage of the activities included in each paragraph and so you can improve your linguistics level of the language chosen. Another one the objectives is to provide a lot of websites where you can look up to resolve your problems and to improve your level languages.

=__DISCUSSION TAB__ __(FORUM)__=

Welcome to forum of young people. What do you think about Internet and how you use it? Options:
 * 1) It´s a extraordinary instrument and is easy to learn
 * 2) On the Internet you can find a lot of information about sports, cinema, young people
 * 3) I use it for class homework.
 * 4) I use it to do research.
 * 5) I participate in forums
 * 6) I send e-mails to my friends
 * 7) I download games, music and films
 * 8) I like chatting with Internet users

**EXERCISE 1: Forum in class** Take part in a forum where you explain why you use Internet.

=__SPEAKING__= 
 * EXERCISE 2: Work in group to discuss these questions:**
 * 1) Do you think it is necessary to know I. Technology to use Internet?
 * 2) For you, what does Internet mean?: a tool for work or a tool for leisure.
 * 3) Do you usually use the Internet? Where? Why? How many hours every day do you spend on the Internet?
 * 4) What advantages does the Internet offer?
 * 5) Does the Internet replace other forms of media?
 * 6) Do you think it is a necessary tool in your learning process?
 * 7) What can you do on the Internet? Name a few specific things.
 * 8) How do you feel about young people who use Internet in excess?

=__LISTENING__=

**EXERCISE 3: Listen to a person talking about the Internet and learn about it.**

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Internet was born of an American Army´s research project. At present, the Internet is formed by more than 20 million computers that are linked together. Internet Services are secured by computers called servers, which are permanently connected to the Internet. E-mail Services are based on the principle of the traditional mail service. Every person who communicates by e-mail has an e-mail address. Discussion tabs or forums propose a system of public information exchange about a fixed subject. The World Wide Web (or simply “the Web”) is an Internet Service that provides or spreads multimedia information.

a) Where does the Internet come from? b) Of how many computers is the Internet comprised? c) What is the name of the computers that provide the Internet Services? d) On what principles is the e-mail based? e) What is a forum? And webpage?

**EXERCISE 4: Read and listen to complete the gaps and then answer the questions.**

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I love _ on the _ and _ but I don’t have a connection at home. At night at about 20:15 my friends and I go to a _ in the city centre to surf on the Net, _ our _ and to answer our French or English friends’ _. It’s great!

a) What does he like to do? b) Where does he go at night? At what time does he go? c) Who does he go with? d) Why?

(Solutions Exercise 4) =WRITING=

**EXERCISE 5: Write a short composition about relationship on Internet.** = **GRAMMAR** =

= = **ARTICLES, DEMONSTRATIVES AND VERBS**


 * EXERCISE 6: Replace the **__**definitive and indefinitive articles**__ **for a demonstrative adjective (this, these, that, those).**


 * 1) __The__ screen doesn’t work.
 * 2) I am buying __a__ keyboard.
 * 3) Please, show me __the__ computer
 * 4) At this moment, __the__ webpage isn’t available.
 * 5) __The__ information is reliable.
 * 6) Print __the__ image, please.

(Solutions Exercise 6)

**EXERCISE 7: Complete the following sentences with a definitive article or indefinite article if it is necessary.**
 * 1) Young people think the Internet is used like tool for work.
 * 2) He sends me _ photos by e-mail
 * 3) We know websites that interest children
 * 4) Internet users visit _ webpage weekly
 * 5) Clic here to go from _ webpage to an another.
 * 6) Look at screen and follow _ instructions.

(Solutions Exercise 7)

**EXERCISE 8: When necessary, put prepositions and/or articles or contracted articles to complete the following sentences in English and in Spanish.**
 * 1) This afternoon we are going _ city centre.
 * 2) They are searching _ information
 * 3) He has a vague idea system
 * 4) This website includes _ supplementary webpages.
 * 5) You should be patient and _ quiet/calm.

(Solutions Exercise 8)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">**EXERCISE 9: Complete the sentences using the verb “to have”**
 * 1) You _ a computer in your house since you were sixteen
 * 2) He _ or _ a message by e-mail
 * 3) We _ with two young Belgian internet users.
 * 4) You _ a laptop
 * 5) They _ their CD-player.
 * 6) They _ or _ to a cybercafé

(Solutions Exercise 9)

=VOCABULARY=

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">**EXERCISE 10: Choose the correct answer:**
 * 1) The activity consists of talking in real time between two or more persons is:
 * Chat
 * Access
 * 1) The system that lets people exchange personal messages is:
 * Virus
 * Cyberspace
 * E-mail
 * 1) The device that allows the data transmission by telephone lines is:
 * On-line
 * Modem
 * Telephone
 * Telephone

(Solutions Exercise 10)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">**EXERCISE 11: Choose the correct answer:** a) What is McAfee?
 * 1) A server computer
 * 2) Antivirus
 * 3) A webpage

b)What is Google?
 * 1) A password
 * 2) A e-mail address
 * 3) A engine

(Solutions Exercise 11)

=__BIOGRAFY__= En avant! 1, 2. Editorial. Longmann

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