Showing posts with label Word skills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Word skills. Show all posts

07 May 2013

Get photos from the internet and create a table in Word

Find three things: healthy food or fast food?


While we're on the topic of healthy foods, here's an activity to practise the following skills:

  • search for images (using Google search engine) and save them to your folder (using Save Image as);
  • insert images into a doc and resize; 
  • insert Symbols, like a tick and a cross;
  • create a Table and navigate and edit it.
Click this link to read and follow the instructions in the document.

Can you create a document with a Table that looks similar to this?

Make a Table with different foods



23 April 2013

News Headlines at VILC: listen, order and type the list

Here is a great activity to access VILC for online learning and type a Word list using bullet points.

A. Do the VILC Task


Open VILC using our Username (500vilcst) and our latest Password (this changes every year and it is secure - see the whiteboard in the Computer room and write in your notebook).

Listen to the latest News Headlines for Elementary level and drag the items into the correct order (without checking your answers). When you have finished, show your answers to the teacher and then check your answers.

Then click the Book icon to view the transcript of the Headlines.

B. Type the News Headlines text 


Open Word and start a new document called VILC Easy News Headlines for .....[date]....

Type the text for the Easynews Headlines. To see the text, switch between your Internet browser and your Word document using the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen.

C. Format your Word document

  1. Format the heading using Heading 1 Style.
  2. Make all the body text Verdana font, size 12.
  3. Change the body text to purple.
  4. Change all the text spacing to 1.15 Spacing.
  5. Select the dot points and format them using bullet points.
  6. Type your name and the date at the bottom of the text.
  7. Save your doc to your folder, with your name in the Title and Save As into the Teacher's Folder too.
  8. Find a photo for one of the stories using 'Google Search' and then 'Images', and insert the photo in the document under the text.
  9. Type 4 new words and find their meanings using the Cambridge online Learners' dictionary.