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Touchstone3
Unit 9
Tech savvy?
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Lesson A Tech support

• savvy practical knowledge and ability
• charge (v) (charged) to put electricity into
  something
• awful (adj.) extremely bad or unpleasant

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• antivirus (adj.) (antivirus software /
  antivirus program) produced and used to protect
  the main memory of a computer against infection
  by a virus
• delete (v) to remove something, especially from
  a computer's memory
• temporary (adj.) existing or happening for only
  a short or limited time

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1 Getting started B

• 1. Dose anyone know what the problem is?
• 2. But I cant remember which Web site I used.
• 3. I forget how you do that, though.
• 4. I wonder if you have that awful virus thats
  going around.

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2 Grammar
(direct question)

• Whats the problem?
• Do you know what the problem is?
• I dont know what the problem is.
• Which site did you use?
• Can you remember which site you used?
• I have no idea which site I used.

(question within question)
(question within statements)
(direct question)
(question within question)
(question within statements)
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(direct question)

• Why is it doing that?Do you have any idea why
  its doing that?I have no idea why its doing
  that.
• Is the battery charged?Do you know if the
  battery is charged?I wonder if the battery is
  charged.
• Use if for yes-no questions.

(question within question)
(question within statements)
(direct question)
(question within question)
(question within statements)
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2 A

• 1. Do you know how much it costs to download
  music files off the Internet?
• 2. I wonder if there are any Internet cafes
  around here.
• 3. Do you know where I can buy a really cheap
  computer?

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• 4. Can you remember how much your cell phone
  cost?
• 5. Do you have any idea how I can put my
  vacation photos on the Web?
• 6. I wonder how many songs you can store on an
  MP3 player.

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3 Speaking and listening

• spam emails that you do not want, usually
  advertisements
• continent one of the seven main areas of land
  on the Earth, such as Asia, Africa, or Europe

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3 A

• 1. about 85 percent
• 2. Google
• 3. English, Chinese, Japanese
• 4. Asia
• 5. about 13 hours

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3 B

• 1. Spam is one of the biggest problems on the
  Internet.
• 2. Google can search over 8 billion Web pages.
• 3. Spanish is the fourth most common Internet
  language.

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• 4. Asia has about one third of the worlds
  Internet users.
• 5. The most popular activities are e-mail and
  instant messaging.

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Lesson B How things work

• 1 Building language
• instruction (n) to teach someone how to do
  something
• manual (n) a book that tells you how to use
  something or do something

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• remote (n) a piece of equipment that is used to
  control something such as a television from a
  distance
• plug (v) in to connect a piece of electrical
  equipment to a supply of electricity or to
  another piece of electrical equipment

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1 B

• Do you turn your TV on / turn on your TV every
  morning?
• Do you turn the TV off / turn it off when youre
  not watching it?
• Do you know how to play / how you play a DVD on
  a computer?

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2 Grammar

• dial (n) the part of a machine or device which
  shows you a measurement of something such as
  speed or time

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• laptop (n) a computer which is small enough to
  be carried around easily and is designed for
  use outside an office

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• Separable phrasal verbs with objects
• How do you -- turn on the DVD player?
• -- turn it on?
• Ex plug in
• turn on
• turn off
• turn up
• turn down

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• Question word to verb
• Let me show you what to do.
• Can you show me how to turn it on?
• Do you know where to plug it in?

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2 (answer)

• 1.
• A Do you know hoe to turn off this cell phone /
  to turn this cell phone off?
• B This button turns it off. You need to push it
  really hard.

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• 2.
• A I dont know how to turn down the air
  conditioning / to turn the air conditioning down.
• B I can show you how to turn it down. Just turn
  this dial.

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• 3.
• A Can you show me where to plug in my laptop /
  to plug my laptop in?
• B You can plug it in right over there.

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• 4.
• A I cant figure out how to turn on the CD
  player / to turn the CD player on.
• B Im not sure how to turn it on. Maybe you
  press this button.

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• 5.
• A Can you show me hoe to turn up the volume / to
  turn the volume up onmy computer?
• B Im sorry, but I have no idea how to turn it
  up.

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4 Building vocabulary

• hook (v) up to connect a machine to a power
  supply or to another machine, or to connect
  someone to a piece of medical equipment

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• throw away to get rid of something because you
  do not want or need it any more
• turn down to reduce the level of sound or heat
  that a machine produces

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4 B

• Computer hook it up, pick it up, put it down,
  take it apart, throw it away, put it away
• Radio pick it up, put it down, take it apart,
  throw it away, turn it down, turn it up, put it
  away

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Lesson C I know what you mean, but

• 1 Conversation strategy
• a waste of time to not make good use of the
  hours, etc. that you have available

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1 B

• 1. B I dont know. Dont you think you need some
  free time to relax?
• 2. B I know what you mean, but theyre useful
  in an emergency.

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• 3. B Maybe. On the other hand, its a great way
  to get information or do research for school.
• 4. B Thats true. A phone call is much more
  personal, though.

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2 Strategy plus

• stuff used to refer to a substance or a group
  of things or ideas, etc without saying exactly
  what they are

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3 Listening and speaking A

• 1. Fran
• 2. Hugo
• 3. Hugo
• 4. Hugo
• 5. Fran

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Lesson D Identity theft

• 1 Reading A
• General information full name, home address,
  e-mail address, occupation, work address,
  nationality

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• Numbers bank account numbers, home / cell / work
  phone numbers, calling card numbers, credit card
  numbers, student ID numbers

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• Documents drives license, passport, school ID,
  ATM card, checks
• Other passwords, screen names, parents names,
  hometown

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1 B (vocabulary)

• rob (v) (robbing) to steal from someone or
  somewhere, often using violence
• snatch (v) to take something or someone quickly
  and suddenly
• pilfer (v) to steal things that do not have
  much value

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• account (n) an arrangement with a bank to keep
  your money there and to let you take it out when
  you need to
• criminal (adj.) relating to crime
• unauthorized (adj.) done without official
  permission
• for instance (ph.) for example

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• overdue (adj.) happening later than expected
• payment (n) an amount of money paid
• vulnerable (adj.) easy to hurt or attack
  physically or emotionally
• statistic (n) a fact in the form of a number
  that shows information about something

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• undetected (adj.) havent be discovered or
  noticed something, especially something that is
  difficult to see, hear, smell, etc
• self-defense (n) protection of yourself
• suspicious (adj.) feeling lack of trust or
  doubt in someone or something
• shred (v) to cut or tear something roughly into
  thin strips

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• rifle (v) to search quickly through something,
  often in order to steal something
• discarded (adj.) to throw something away or get
  rid of it because you no longer want or need it
• receipts (n) a piece of paper which proves that
  money, goods or information have been received

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• access (v) to open a computer file in order to
  look at or change information in it
• conduct (v) to organize or do something
• etiquette (n) rules about what is polite and
  correct behavior
• intercept (v) to stop someone or something
  before they are able to reach a particular place

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• surfer (n) people to spend time visiting a lot
  of websites
• ridiculously (adj.) stupid or unreasonable and
  deserving to be laughed at
• binocular (n) a pair of tubes with glass at
  either end that you look through to see things
  far away

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1 C (vocabulary)

• permission (n) when you allow someone to do
  something
• in danger (ph.) the possibility that someone or
  something will be harmed or killed, or that
  something bad will happen

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1 C (answer)

• rob (in the title) pick pockets, snatch, pilfer
  (Paragraph 1)
• unauthorized (Paragraph 2)
• victim (Paragraph 2)
• vulnerable (Paragraph 2)

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• shred (third section under Mail)
• rifle through (third section under Mail)
• crack (second section under ATM)
• keep an eye out for (third section under ATM)

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1 D (answer)

• You should shred them first.
• They look for peoples discarded bills, bank
  statements, credit card receipts, and anything
  that might contain personal information.

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• An identity thief might hear the conversation and
  learn some personal information.
• Shoulder surfers steal calling-card numbers or
  PIN numbers when people are using their cards
  in public.
• Its too easy for an identity thief to figure
  out.

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Vocabulary notebook

• 1 Preview and do the task
• Ill turn it down.
• You can put them away in the closet.
• Ill look it up.
• Ill print it out.
• Ill turn it up.
• Then Id take them off.

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2 Do the task

• Can you drive me to the mail?
• Do you like this jacket?
• I just bought this DVD player, and it doesnt
  work.
• Hi. Do you have a minute to talk?
• The garbage is smelling.
• I just bought a new stereo system.