2 English for Information Technology A2-B1 Vocational English Teacher’s Book

Teacher’s Notes  

 

Warm-up 

Ask students to share, in small groups, their lists of 

internal computer parts and external parts 

(peripherals) they made for homework. Then ask 

one person from each group to write words from 

their lists on the board to make one long list. This 

could be combined with Activity 1.  

 

System specifications 

Speaking  

1

  In open class, if you think that students might 

know the difference between internal 

components and peripherals, elicit it from them. 

Otherwise, tell them. Then ask students to name 

as many of each as they can, in small groups. If, 

while monitoring, you notice that a student can 

describe the item or think of the word in their 

own language, you can help them by pointing at 

the word in Activity 2 or by providing the 

English word yourself.  

Peripherals connect to the outside of the 

computer. Internal hardware goes inside the 

computer. 

As well as the items mentioned in Activity 2, 

peripherals might include: microphone, memory 

card reader and scanner. Internal hardware 

might include: motherboard, cables, fans and 

floppy disk drive. Blue-ray drive, DVD drive and 

CD drive can be external or internal but 

nowadays are usually internal. They may be 

combined into the same unit and usually go by 

the umbrella term ‘optical drive’.