Using the internet

LSS Teacher training course
Using the internet
in English Language teaching

using the internet
in elt

Chapter 1



What is the internet?
1. Discussion
(Pairwork)
What do you know about the Internet?
What are the advantages of the Internet?
What are the disadvantages of the Internet?
2. Summary
(Groupwork)
Read “What is the Internet? & A bit of history” on pages 1-3 and summarize them basing on the questions:

1. What is the Internet?
2. How can you join this system?
3. Where and when was the Internet
started? How has it developed?
1, What do you know about the Internet?
The Internet has increasingly developed and become part of our everyday life.
Nobody can deny the benefits of the Internet.
2, Advantages:
A,The internet as a source of information:
Read news , articles and novels.
Watch the weather forecast, maps .
Communicate with friends and relatives.
B,The internet as a source of entertainment.
Listen to music, songs, novels…
See the movies, play games, chat…
C, The internet as a source of education.
Study on_line schools, on_line lessons
Study English, look up the dictionaries, read the referent books…
D,The internet as a means of commerce.
Work and business
3, Disadvantages: Internet has some limitations
a, Time- consuming
b, Costly
c, information leaking.
d, viruses
e, harmful for the health.
3. gapfill
Read “What is the Internet?” on pages 1-2 and complete the text about the Internet.
To get on the Internet you need a computer, a telephone line, a 1____ and an 2 ___ . To access the video, audio and interactive files on the Internet you will need a powerful computer which can handle these 3___ components. You don’t need a special telephone line, although obviously if you only have one line you will not be able to make telephone calls at the same time that you are 4____ . Most new computers have a built-in 5____ , which translates the digital language of the computer into monologue language used on
6 ___ . You can get access to the Internet via an 7___ .
ISP online modem multimedia telephone lines


Modem 2. ISP 3. multimedia
4. Online 5. modem 6. telephone lines 7. ISP
4. complete the chart

4. complete the chart

5. Answer the questions about the Internet’s applications

How many key applications of the Internet are mentioned? What are they?
What are the key text-based applications?
What are the key multimedia applications?


5. Answer the questions about the Internet’s applications

7. E-mail,mailing lists, newsgroups, chat, MOO, videoconferencing, www.
E-mail,mailing lists, newsgroups, chat, MOO
Videoconferencing, www.

Retell the main applications of the Internet
(Groupwork: Chain game)
No.1: E-mails
No.2: Mailing lists
No.3: Newsgroups
No.4: Chat
No.5: MOO
No.6: Videoconferencing
No.7: The World Wide Web

Discuss the following questions, then read pages 5-9 and write the answers on a poster
(Groupwork)
Do you use the Internet? Why?
What does an e-mail address consist of?
What is Netiquette?
What are the accepted protocol for sending electronic communications?

Explain the following:

www
Html
http
Freeware
Web browser
Bookmarks/ Favorites
URL
answers

www: World Wide Web
HTML: Hypertext Markup language
http: Hypertext transfer protocol
Freeware: software programs distributed free of charge (e.g. Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer)
Web browser: reads the HTML tags and presents you with a formatted document you can read.
Bookmarks/ Favorites: allows you to creates shortcut from your browser to a specific page within a website.
URL: Uniform resource locator (address)
How to use a web browser
Which part of this page on Netscape would you click on, or point to,
if you wanted to:
1. return to your web browser’s home page?
2. mark a web site for future use?
3. move down the page?
4. view this month’s version of a magazine web site
that you visited last month?
5. type in a web site address (URL)?
6. go back to the last page you saw?
Answers to How to use a web browser

1. return to your web browser`s home page?
2. mark a web site for future use?
3. move down the page?
4. view this month`s version of a magazine web site that you visited last month?
5. type in a web site address (URL)?
6. go back to the last page you saw?



home button 2. bookmarks 3. scrollbar
4. reload 5. address box 6. back button