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

 

Preparing for the next unit  

In Unit 2 students will be discussing hardware, 

including the parts inside a computer and items that 

can be attached to a computer, and instructions for 

using software (such as Double click here.). You can 

prepare students for this by brainstorming lists of 

internal computer parts and external parts 

(peripherals), and ask them to extend their lists 

before the next lesson for checking at that time. 

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2 

IT systems 

 

Briefing 

This unit aims to provide a foundation of language 

to be used throughout the book for talking about 

basic computer hardware, and screen and software 

operations. Students practise: large and small 

numbers, as they relate to system specifications; 

using imperatives to give instructions for using a 

GUI; using prepositions in sentences with two 

objects to describe, for example, connecting and 

disconnecting multimedia equipment; explaining  

OS installation using appropriate language to 

express reason and purpose. 

 

System specifications  

This section looks at basic hardware and numbers 

for hardware specifications.  

The hardware is divided into three categories: 

peripherals (things that you plug into computers),