Billy Gigabyte’s hobby is surfing the Internet.
Interview a friend and tell the class
(like/surfing/playing games)
Read the text. (how often/where)
Hi, my name’s Bertha and I’m 12 years old. (favourite website/game)
I’m from Switzerland. I live on a big farm. …
I love the mountains. In my free time, I like
surfing the Internet and playing computer Send email
What can you do with
games. My favourite drink is water.
a computer? …………………………………………………………………
What about you?
Make a list.
Compare with others. …………………………………………………………………
Now talk about yourself.
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Prepare some questions for Bertha: …………………………………………………………………
(favourite food) What’s your favourite food? …………………………………………………………………
(sisters or brothers) ………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………
(favourite website) …………………………………………………………………………… The Compucats are addicted to the
(how often) ………………………………………………………………………………………… Internet. They have a fast broadband
connection so they can surf their
(when) …………………………………………………………………………………………………… favourite websites and download cat
pictures and cat songs.
Dino is still learning to use a computer. He’s not very What can you see in the picture?
good at it yet. His older brother gave him his old
desktop computer when he bought a laptop. The cats’ computer has an LCD screen.
The cat in front of the computer is wearing a hat.
Give Dino some tips to get better:
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Take computer lessons
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The making of this worksheet
I just wanted to share with you how I got the idea of making
this worksheet. I was actually designing a new template and
was about finished. I had no idea what kind of worksheet it
would become.
DIY (Do it yourself)
I started surfing the Internet and checked out some of my
latest free clip art bookmarks. I ended up at Please feel free to use this worksheet as a
www.cartoonclipart.com which has lots of free cartoon clip art template to create your own exercise.
that is amazing. I browsed randomly and downloaded some I
liked. I found four computer clip art images and decided to Either follow the steps I took or try to come up
use those. The theme of the ws would be computers and the with some good ideas of your own.
Internet.
Don’t forget to share on www.eslprintables.com.
I decided to divide the worksheet into different sections.
The skills I included are reading (but not with comprehension Philip Roeland
questions because I find those particularly boring and most
course already have plenty). I included some speaking
exercises and hope students will use this to present
themselves and friendsto the class and thus get some
indispensable speaking practice.
I also included some writing tasks as writing and asking
questions is often an important skill later in life (emails,
studying abroad, chatting, socialising, etc.). I also hope the
students will pick up some the Internet-related vocabulary
and start using it actively and correctly – I’ve just about had
it with people telling me ‘I like play game’ or ‘I play Internet’.
I hope you’ll enjoy it.
Send email
Chat
Instant messaging
Download music
Prepare a presentation
Make a chart
Watch DVD’s
Watch online videos
Word processing
Surf the Internet
Prepare some questions for Bertha:
Visit your favourite websites
(favourite food) What’s your favourite food?
Tweak photos
(sisters or brothers) Do you have (any) brothers or brothers?
…
(favourite website) What’s your favourite website?
(how often) How often do you surf the Internet? What can you see in the picture?
(when) When do you usually surf the Internet?
The cats’ computer has an LCD screen.
The cat in front of the computer is wearing a hat.
Give Dino some tips to get better: There’s a printer on the chest of drawers.
Take computer lessons The surfing cat is sitting on a stool.
Practise a lot They are printing some cat photos.
Ask friends for help There’s a black and white cat next to the desk.
Buy a computer manual There’s a cat climbing on the desk.
Look for information on the Internet There’s a cat picture on the screen.
Don’t worry, just try and you’ll get better. They are surfing a cat website.
