Practice with numbers

Teacher's notes

This information exchange activity gives students the chance to practice giving and finding out information about the basic specification of different computers. Check that your students are pronouncing words such as gigabyte, megahertz and centimeter correctly.

For use in class, print out all three components, Student A, Student B, and these teacher's notes, which contain the key.

For use online, have the pairs of students sit at separate computers to do the activity. When they have finished filling out the missing elements, have them printout and compare their pages.

Possible answers:

Model 6500 is more expensive than Model 6300.
Model 6500 has a bigger monitor than Model 6300.
Model 6500 has a better memory than Model 6300.