Worksheet on listening "Buy a laptop"

Worksheet on listening “ Buy a laptop”                

Exercise 1:

In one or two sentences, sum up, in English, the general issue of the doc.

This video is showing which pc you want to buy for how you use it before buying a new one.

If you using for games: you need a good graphic cards or if you want more memory you need check the different sizes of hard disks.

Exercise 2:

Identify the different criteria required when buying a laptop? (6)

-processing power

-graphics card

-ram

-size

-battery life

-connectivity

-hard disks size

-operating system

Exercise 3:

Answer as many questions as possible and follow the instructions:

1. What do you need basically when buying a laptop according to the lady?

We need performance

1. Does any laptop suit everybody?

…no because everybody has different opinions about the utility we accord to the pc

1. How many steps / criteria need to be taken into account?

Between 6 or 8 steps 

1. Why is the performance of a laptop important?

…we have two main parts of performance:

1: performance for word documents

2: performance for games

1. Define what the processing power is

……Is the number of calculations per second

1.  Complete this sentence:                                                                                                                                 The faster the processing power is, the better

1. Which processor technology is mentioned in the doc? :

Intel Centrino 

1. Why is this processor so popular?

…intelligently saves as much battery as possible

1. What are big screens useful for?

Games, movies

1. What is the consequence in terms of space if a bigger screen is used.

It more difficult to transport or to deploy in small space

1. What is prior when considering the size of a laptop?

1. What could be the main drawback of using a bigger screen?

The space and the weight

1. What does the lady recommend to you as far as battery is concerned?

The intelligent CPU

1. Complete these sentences with the words from the video:                                                                                                                             You need to wonder how much …as battery life as possible…………………………………………………………………… you need.

Usually current laptops come …………………………………………………… installed

1. Tell if these statements are TRUE or FLASE in the following sentences :

New hard disks are expensive: T

There’s much room for expansion n: T

Most people need more than 100GB space: T

Exercise 4:

1. Make notes about the features of the computer that you would most like to have by thinking about the features below :

CPU           speed    optical disk drives            wireless connectivity         min / max RAM

Monitor                                                                                                                                       ports and card memory                   hard disk                software

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