LESSON

INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

THEME OR CONTENT AREA

Technology

LEVEL

TIMING

3r year of ESO

12 50 min sessions

STUDENTS' PREVIOUS KNOWLEGE

Practical usage with computers

Office application programs

CONTENT & ATTITUDE

OBJECTIVES

• To know the difference between hardware and software
• To classify different types of software
  
• To classify different types of hardware
  
• To know how the main devices work
  
• To work with storage measures

KEY NEW VOCABULARY & STRUCTURES

IT specific vocabulary, like: bus, device, monitor, keyboard, etc.

Time vocabulary: before, after, while...

Numbers

• Simple present to argue: my life is better because I can communicate online, to describe: the OS controls all the HW devices and interacts with users

• Describe using made for: the sound car is made for listening to music and recording sounds.

• Comparing devices: the storage capacity of this HDD is bigger than the other, new DVDs are faster than old DVDs.

• 1st conditional: if the LCD cell is opaque, the light won't pass the screen

PREPARATION

Web site to present new concepts.

Real devices used to help students learning process.

INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Debate: How ICT have improved your life?

• Order some computing related events in a time line using pictures and cards with names and descriptions. By pairs or threes.

• Draw the main elements of a computer and write examples of peripherals. Make posters by pairs.

• Order some models of processors in a time line using the information from Wikipedia

• Place names in a picture of the motherboard.

• Speaking: students in a line pass each other a card and talk to other classmate:

A: What is it?

B: It is a sound card

A: Sorry, could you repeat please?

B: This device is a sound card

A: Oh, yes! A sound card!

B: Yes it is. The sound card is made for listening to music and recording sounds.

• Look for prices of storage devices over the Internet. In pairs make a chart with at least two prices of the same device.

• Listen-look-touch: listen to the teacher explanation of how to dismantle a CD drive, look the procedure and manipulate an old CD drive.

• Listening: see a video about connecting a second hard disk drive. (www.howstuffworks.com).

• Guess what's written in the blackboard. One student has to ask another student to guess what device is written. The other mate is only able to answer yes or not.

- Is it a peripheral?

- Yes

- Is it an input peripheral?

- Yes

- Is it an optical device?

- No

- Has it got a wheel?

- Yes

- It is a mouse!

• Preparing a speech. One student will be the shop assistant, the other will be the customer.

• Make some conversions from binary to decimal following teacher's explanations.

• Make a table with relationships between Kb, Mb, Gb, KB, MB, GB.

• Calculate how many floppy disks can be stored in a CD, DVD, HDD...

• Crosswords and filling gaps activity.

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