High School Newton-Clichy Versailles Local Education Authority

kind of session :
Vocational section (C.S.)
T.D. Date :
subject :
C.L.I.L.
How to build a computer
Duration : 00 h 50

Name et Surname :

Goals :
✓ be able to recognize and describe the different components needed to build a computer.

Level :
✓ intermediate

Professional context

A technician in computer sciences, working for VADPar, serving a customer in his shop ; this one need some
tips to build his next PC, and he would like to know the meaning of some information on these materials.

A. Identification of the components

First step is to identify the main components to build this computer.

Associate the right name with the right picture (filling pictures with the right number)

4 Processing unit (CPU)

2 Power supply (700W here) 3 Motherboard

7 Graphic card (GPU)

1 PC case
10 Computer monitor

5 Watercooling

6 Memory (RAM)
9 Keyboard and mouse

8 Solid State Disk (SSD)

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B. Role play

You want to buy and build a new PC ; You are in front of a specialist that know very well this subject.
You decided to ask him some questions about specifications of components like processor, memory
(RAM), motherboard and the monitor.

Language focus :

⎯ cores
⎯ memory size
⎯ memory slots/support
⎯ panel resolution
⎯ panel size
⎯ power consumption
⎯ response time
⎯ shape
⎯ tested speed

Examples of question :

What is the shape of ... ?

Could you tell me how/what ... ?
And what about ... ?
What do you think about ... ?

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