1) I find it difficult to describe activities people normally do when working on the computer (on "Microsoft Word", for example). Can you help me? (For example: I switch on the computer, then I click on the icon "word" and wait for it to open. I type in my paragraph, I save a copy on my USB stick (flash drive is the same?) or in a folder called "English".

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2) What can you do when writing a document using "Word"? Modify the lay-out, enlarge the characters, select "italics, bold, block capitals??, underline words or phrases, insert tables, charts or image.
3) Can you say "you type data into your computer by tapping/hitting the keys(?) of your keyboard. For example, you can tap the spacebar key, the tab key, the capital letter key (the control key)or a letter key. Can you help me name the most important keys in English, please?

1) Yesterday I went to a friend’s house to use her computer because I wanted to send a photo by e-mail to my uncle, who lives in the USA.
2) Unfortunately, her computer is rather old and slow, so when I turned it on it took ages to boot up. 3) Eventually the computer asked for her windows password, so I asked her to type it in for me.
4) Her scanner is quite old too, but it works well, so I scan in my photo and after another long wait it was ready.
5) I wanted to write a long e-mail to my uncle, but I had to go to the shops before they closed and I was running out time, so I just wrote a short message, attached the photo and clicked ‘send’.
6) Then I logged off and waited for the computer to shut down.
7) I have high-speed internet connection now. There is no need to dial up to the server anymore.
8) I need to install an anti-virus program on my computer since advertisements pop up every 10 minutes.

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1) I find it difficult to describe activities people normally do when working on the computer (on "Microsoft Word", for example). Can you help me? (For example: I switch on the computer, then I click on the icon "word" and wait for it to open. I type in my paragraph, I save a copy on my USB stick (flash drive is the same?) or in a folder called "English". Yes, USB stick, memory stick, flash drive, thumb drive -- all mean the same thing.

2) What can you do when writing a document using "Word"? Modify the lay-out, enlarge the characters, select "italics, bold, block capitals??, underline words or phrases, insert tables, charts or image. I'd use "font" instead of "characters" and "images" at the end.

3) Can you say "you type data into your computer by tapping/hitting the keys(?) of your keyboard. For example, you can tap the spacebar key, the tab key, the capital letter key (the control key)or a letter key. Can you help me name the most important keys in English, please?
Yes, tapping, hitting, striking all work fine. On my keyboard, I have letter keys, number keys, tab, caps lock, shift, ctrl, alt, option, spacebar, function, arrow, home, end, delete, page up, page down, insert, print screen, pause/break, and at the right side I have a number pad (all ten numbers plus / * - + . and Enter.

1) OK

2) OK

3) OK

4) Her scanner is quite old too, but it works well, so I scanned in my photo, and after another long wait, it was ready.

5) I wanted to write a long e-mail to my uncle, but I had to go shopping before the stores closed, and I was running out time, so I just wrote a short message, attached the photo, and clicked ‘send’.

6) OK

7) OK

8) OK