GENERAL EDUCATION BOOSTERS

• Highway 54 - the old name of EDSA during WW-II

• Trisomy 21 - also known as down syndrome
• Kumintang - Filipinos would sing this song in preparation for
war battle
• En ventre sa mere - the right of the unborn child is the same as
the right of individual
• Mark Twain - the pen name of Samuel Clemens
• Heroic Couplet - last two lines of the Sonnet
• Sergio Osmeña - the first appointed head of the Department of
Education during Commonwealth period
• Philippine Normal University - established by the Americans
for aspiring educators in 1901
• Animal cells - do not produce cell walls
• Boustrophedon - Ancient Greeks form of writing
• Nitrogen - the most abundant gas in the atmosphere
• Skin - body's largest organ
• Chivalric education - also known as a social discipline. The
educational system which emphasized social etiquette
• Socratic method - teachers ask questions to try to get students
to clarify and rethink their own ideas, to come eventually to a
deep and clear understanding of philosophical concepts
• Saracenic education - this education is training for scientific
thinking
• Verbatim - word for word
• Social Justice - very foundation of genuine peace and
reconciliation
• Tomas Pinpin - kauna-unahang manlilimbag na Pilipino
• National Treasury - provides the fund to support the Air
Quality Management in the Philippines
• Pascual Poblete - tinaguriang "Ama ng Pahayagang Tagalog"
• Oxygen - a by-product of Photosynthesis
• Water - universal solvent
• Gametes (in human) - contain 22 autosomes and 1 sex
chromosome
• Emilio Jacinto - Utak ng Himagsikan
• Apolinario Mabini - utak ng rebolusyon Katipunan
• Kinkee - the gas lamp used to lighten the streets in intramuros
way back in history
• Miranda rule - the right of a person under arrest
• Epistemology - examines the nature and origin of human
knowledge
• Empiricism - holds that the sensory experience is the source of
knowledge
• Agnosticism - coined by Thomas Huxley which means "not
knowledge but being able to know
• Metaphysics - it seeks to find out what is ultimately real
• Horticulture - the art of growing flowers, fruits and vegetables
• Jus sanguinis - a child follows the nationality or citizenship of
the parents regardless of the place of his birth
• 1956 - Lupang Hinirang was sung for the first time
• Element - the simplest substance that cannot be decomposed
further by normal chemical means
• Pedro Bukaneg - Ama ng panitikang Ilocano
• Intellectual Appreciative Experiences - based on the premise
that all the learning has emotional correlates
• Thailand - formerly called "Siam"
• Henry Otley Beyer - proposed the idea that the first Filipinos
came through waves of migration from South to North
• Klaster - Kambal katinig
• Trinidad Tecson - Ina ng Biak-na-Bato at Ina ng Kruss na Pula
(Red cross)
• Truman Doctrine - was an american foreign policy created to
counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war
• Manila - was named "Distinguished and ever Loyal City" by
Legaspi
• Mariano Trias - First Vice President of the Republic of the
Philippines
• Plebiscite - the direct vote of all the members of an electorate
on important public questions such as a change in the
Constitution.
• Monotheist religion - Christianity, Islam, Judaism
• First sultanate - Sultanate of Sulu
• Diwata I - first Satellite launched by the Philippines
• Franchise - given the right to vote
• Disenfranchise - removal of the right to vote
• Antarctica - Largest dessert, cold dessert
• Bicameralism - upper house / Lowerhouse
• Executive - implementing body
• Legislative - Lawmaking body
• Judiciary - interpreting body
• Ural Mountain - separated Europe and Asia
• 5 ships of Magellan - Trinidad, Conception, Victoria, San
Antonio, & San Tiago
• Mongoloids - Known as the Yellow race
• Henry the Navigator - the great king of Portugal
• Doctrina Cristiana - the first book written in the Philippines
• Francisco Baltazar - the Father of Tagalog Poetry
• Lola Basyang - is the pen name of Severino Reyes
• Kenkoy - the first and longest-running komiks series in the
Philippines
• Juan Crisostomo Soto - the Father of Pampanga Literature
• Manila Bulletin - the oldest existing newspaper in the
Philippines since 1900
• Alejandro Abadilla - the Father of Modern Tagalog Poetry
• Jose Rizal - he wrote the popular fable The Monkey and the
Turtle
• The Decalogue - known as Andres Bonifacio's Ten
Commandments of the Katipunan
• Paciano Rizal - Rizal's model for Pilosopong Tasyo
• Dimasalang, Laong-laan - Rizal's pen name
• Taga-ilog - Juan Luna's pen name
• Alibata/Baybayin - the first Filipino alphabet
• 15 letters - the first Filipino alphabet consists
• Jose Ma. Panganiban - He was known for his ‘Memoria
Fotografica’
• Amado Hernandez - He is known as the ‘poet of the workers or
laborers’
• Bukanegan - Ilocano balagtasan is called
• Maragtas - Visayan epic about good manners and right conduct
• Pascual Poblete - the father of Filipino newspaper
• Panderegla - first Filipino bread
• President Duterte - first President from Mindanao
• Chlorophyll - molecule that allows plants to capture energy
from sunlight
• Malaya - uri ng sanaysay na di pangkaraniwan ang paksa na
tinatalakay nang ayon sa sariling istilo ng manunulat
• Mexico - through the Galleon trade (1565-1815), the
Philippines had extended contacts with
• Acid rain - environmental conditions has been blamed for the
usual occurrence of fish kills
• Metatesis - uri ng pagbabagong morponemiko na gumagamit
ng pagpapalit ng posisyong ponema sa salita
• Kolokyal - mga salitang ginagamit bilang impormal
• Classical - artistic tradition that seeks to revive past glory in
various forms
• Salvaging - one instance of taking away the life of another
person without due process
• ½ - the fraction halfway between 3/7 & 4/7
• Nick Joaquin - Filipino writer in English used Hispanic- Filipino
cultures and traditions in his fiction works
• Hamlet - "to be or not to be"
• Onomatopoeia - twinkle... twinkle... twinkle...
• Kuwit - naghihiwalay sa mga salita
• Augustinians - first religious missionary in the Philippines
• Metaphor - black sheep in the Family
• Naty Crame Rogers - Sala Theater
• Writ of Amparo - right to life, liberty and security
• Writ of Habeas Corpus - demand presence of the accused
• Asia - Hinduism is the oldest religion in
• Maslow - hierarchy of needs
• Elegy - death of individual
• Ika- - tambilang
• 1990 - Mt. Pinatubo
• Mt. Mayon - perfect cone
• Pananaliksik - lathala
• Pagyayabang - katangian ng isang debate maliban sa
• Kuwit - paghihiwalay ng mga salita
• Midnight Sun - when the North Pole is tilted towards the sun, it
is summer and when the sun shines all the time both day and
night
• Yeast - example of fungus
• Capsid - protein shell of a virus
• Yeast - organism that feeds on necrotic and decaying matter
• Geographical Isolation - a species of fish live in a lake. When a
dam was constructed in the areas a group of fish was separated
and populated a new pond. Then they developed differing
characteristic and become a distinct species.
• Bat - a creature that can emit sound waves even it is far from
distance
• Food web - shows complex food relationship of organism in a
given area and the cycle flow of food through organism.
• Surface of water - surface tension
• Facebook - social networking service available through
computer
• CPU - Brain of Computer
• Community Tax - tax required to be paid annually by all adult
Citizens of the Philippines
• Writ of habeas data - right to information privacy
• Pang-abay - naglalarawan ng kilos o galaw
• Microfilaments - amoeboid movement and changes in cell
shape
• Runner - bamboo asexual reproduction
• Aquilino Pimentel - father of the local government code
• Darwin - origin of species
• Mental - cognitive skills are not easily observable because they
are
• Castrillo - famous sculptor of landmark structures
• Consumer - kumakain sa producer
• Educational Psychology - application of the principle theories
of human behavior in teaching and learning
• George Eliot - Mary Ann Evans pen name
• Stomata - carbon Dioxide enters plant through holes in the
leaves
• Gas - energy source in the Philippines which is still not fully
developed
• Philippines - ring of fire
• Rice Terraces - man made
• Mysticism - Eastern Religion
• Calmness - composure
• Land and structure - real estate tax
• China - Han dynasty
• Bale-wala - make mountain of a mole
• Kapag - exception
• Balagtasan - patulang pagtatalo ng mga makata
• Armed struggle - Emilio Aguinaldo
• Non-violence - Benigno Aquino said " "I have returned on my
free will to join the ranks of those struggling to restore our
rights and freedoms through
• Lake - gulf
• Worm - segmented
• Reforestation - solution
• Padamdam - Aray!
• Homer - mythical geographer
• Tunog - walang diptonggo
• 1988 - modernisasyon ng wika
• Queen of Elizabeth - queen of virgin
• Metaphor - phantom of delight
• Pamukod - pangatnig na nagbubukod
• Graciano Lopez-Jaena - founder of La Solidaridad/Greatest
Orator
• Impromptu - ang paksa ay ibinibigay bago magsimula ang
talumpati
• Frailocracia - term of Marcelo H. del Pilar to friars
• Severino Montano - Arena theater proponent
• Carbon dioxide - released by plants at night
• Rectangle - shape of a brick
• Cilia - hair-like structure
• Alexander Fleming - discoverer of penicillin
• Fray Juan de Plasencia - author of Doctrina Christiana
• Air - light travels fastest
• 14 - protons of Silicon
• Reduccion - pagbabagong anyo ng bayan
• 30 days - enrolled bills becomes a law
• Juan Luna - painter of the spolarium
• Bukanegan - Ilocano Balagtasan
• Maragtas - Visayan Epic about Good manners and right
conduct
• Lupang Tinubuan - best story was written during the Japanese
period
• Narciso Reyes - Lupang Tinubuan
• Corido at Buhay na pinagdaanan ng tatlong prinsepeng anak
ng Haring Fernando at Reyna Valeriana - The original title of
Ibong Adarna
• Andres Bonifacio - The Great Plebian
• Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo - President of the First Philippine
Republic
• Gregorio Del Pilar - Hero of the Tirad pass battle
• Gomburza - martyred priests in 1872
• Rajah Soliman - Last Rajah of Manila
• Melchora Aquino - Mother of Balintawak
• Rafael Palma - First University of the Philippines president
• Marcelo H. Del Pilar - Greatest Journalist of the propaganda
movement
• Juan Luna - Greatest Filipino painter
• Leona Florentino - First Filipino Poetess
• Pedro Paterno - Peace of the Revolution
• Blood Compact (Sandugo) - agreement between Legazpi and
Datu Sikatuna)
• Hinduism - oldest religion in Asia
• 30 days - lapse
• Sonnet - lyric poem consists of 14 lines
• Haiku - Japanese poem about nature. 5, 7, 5 (3 lines and 17
syllables)
• Tanka - Japanese poem: 5 lines, 31 syllables
• Blank Verse - with meter but no rhyme
• Dramatic Monologue - written in form of speech for individual
character
• Elegy - death of individual
• Epic - tells a story about heroic figure
• Eulogy - message for the dead
• Free Verse - without meter but with rhyme
• Idyll (Idyl) - peaceful, idealized country scene
• Lyrics - thoughts and feelings
• Narrative - tells story
• Ode - typically serious/meditative nature, type of Lyric
• Pastoral - rural life in a peaceful & romanticized way
• Survival and conformity - aims of eras pre-Spanish
• Spanish - Christianity/Religion
• American - democratic ideals and way of life
• Commonwealth - moral character, efficiency
• Japanese - progress
• Haiku - 575, Tanaga - 7777, Tanka - 57577
• Umalohokan - town criers
• Dispenser of knowledge - sage on stage
• Favoritism - negative effect of extended family
• Gitling - bantas na ginagamit sa pagitan ng panlaping ika at
tambilang
• Probiotics as Bifidobacterium - example of a non-pathogenic
microorganism
• Union Obrera Demokratika - first labor union in the Philippines
• Philippine Independent Church - the only remnant after World
War II
• Fr. Pedro Pelaez - secularization movement
• Limited - mother financial problem
• Polka - not a folk dance from Mexico
• Bodabil - a play not from the Spanish era
• Acta de Tejeros - rejected Aguinaldo as President
• Folklore - the philosophy of our folks during pre-Hispanic era
• Katalinuhan - basal o di-konkreto
• Leeches:Anticoagulation - Segmented:Worm
• Tissue - group of cells
• Spencer - survival of the fittest
• Pagsang-ayon - Kasalungat ng pagtugol
• In Vitro Fertilization - test tube babies
• Kuwit - paghihiwalay ng mga sunod-sunod na pangungusap
• Pangungusap - salita o grupo ng mga salit
• Balagtasan - uri ng pagtatanghal na binubuo ng paligsahan ng
dalawang makata
• Oxygen - these are compounds except
• K-III - grade tinuturo ang mother tongue
• Chat room - science subject
• Pancreas - organ who secretes insulin
• Learning is an active process - violated when Teacher Ivon just
lectures while students listen
• Multi-grade class - combining 2-3 grade level
• K-12 - kindergarten is compulsory before proceed to grade 1
• 45,46 - consecutive number whose sum is 91.
• Developmental Portfolio - penmanship skills of the students in
the biggining, middle, and after the school year
• Pagkatakot - gabi na ngunit bakit wala pa siya
• Brigada Eskwela - bayanihan in school
• Sounds - Phonology
• Socialization - participating and functioning members of the
society by fighting into organize way of living.
• 8 levels - hierarchy of biology taxonomy
• Spiral Curriculum - K-12
• Professional Licensed- signed by the PRC.
• Sa kanyang ama (Padre Damaso) - namana ni Maria Clara ang
kanyang pagka mestiza
• TRAIN Law - Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion
• Conservation - about mother earth
• IP (Indigenous People) - stress the positive aspects of culture
• Spreadsheet - performs computation
• Biosphere - air, water, and land
• PQF - Philippine Qualifications Framework
• Reforestation - solution due to increasing global warming
• Bread Provider- not the role of a mother during pre-Hispanic
era
• 45 units - CPD units need for teachers to renew the license
• Lakandula - chief of Tondo
• Isabelo D.R. Viborra and Artemio Ricarte - founder of
Philippine Socialism
• Francisco Baltazar - Father of Tagalog poetry
• Leonor Rivera - fiancee of Jose Rizal
• Baldomero Aguinaldo - leader of Magdalo
• Insulares - Spaniards born in the Philippines
• Julian Felipe - composer of the Philippine National anthem
• Alejandro Abadila - Father of Modern Tagalog poetry
• Juan Crisostomo Sotto - Father of Pampango Literature who
wrote there is no God
• Graciano Lopez Jaena - Greatest Filipino Orator of the
Propaganda Movement
• Panday Pira - First Filipino Cannon Maker
• Mariano Ponce - Managing Editor of La Solaridad
• Gregoria de Jesus - Lakambini of Katipunan
• Fernando Ma. Guererro - Poet of the Revolution
• Felipe Agoncillo - Outstanding Diplomat of the First Philippine
Republic
• Gen. Francisco Makabulos - Leader of Tarlac Revolt
• Agueda Esteban - wife of Artemio Ricarte
• Trinidad Tecson - mother of Biak na Bato
• Teresa Magbanua - Visayan Joan of Arc
• Francisco Baltazar - Prince of Tagalog poets
• Efifanio Delos Santos - man of many talents
• Francisco Dagohoy - Leader of the Longest revolt in Bohol
• Lapu-Lapu - First Filipino hero
• Galicano Apacible - Co-founder of Katipunan
• Diego Silang - Leader of the Ilocano Revolt
• Ang Dapat Mabatid ng mga Tagalog - work of Bonifacio that
tells the history of the Philippines
• Jose Rizal - The Monkey and The Turtle
• The Decalogue - Andres Bonifacio's Ten Commandments of the
Katipunan
• Simoun - The following characters created by Rizal reflect his
own personality except (El Filibusterismo)
• To my Fellow Children - The line whoever knows not how to
love his native tongue.
• Juan Luna - Taga-ilog
• 15 Letters - first Filipino Alphabet is consisted
• Manila Bulletin - oldest existing newspaper in the Philippines
since 1900
• Talindaw - song about Love
• Colado - awit ng mga taong di naimbitahan sa kainan
• Jose Ma. Panganiban - known for his Memoria Fotografica
• Arthropods – jointed appendages
• Amino group – chitins from cellulose
• Amphibians – live on land but breed on water
• Hollow oblong body – birds in aircrafts
• Proboscis – mouthparts of butterflies and mosquitoes
• Vacuoles – stores water, sugar, minerals
• Nitrogen cycle – mushrooms thrive / biogeochemical cycle
• Methane and carbon dioxide – two gases in climate change
and greenhouse effect
• Ovary – part of flower that develops fruit
• NADH and pyruvate – end product of glycolysis
• Parenchyma – storage cell of plants
• Laser – surgery of retina
• Spencer – coined the term “survival of the fittest”
• Peristalsis – wave-like contraction in esophagus
• Veins – back to heart
• Arteries – away from heart
• Capillaries – supplies oxygen
• Lacteals – digested fats
• Sunrise in east – earth rotates from west to east
• Iron and nickel – inner core of the earth
• Li2S – lithium sulfate
• Becquerel – radioactivity
• Gas – sounds travel slowest
• Shale – clay is hardened and cemented
• Anthracite – highest rank of coal
• Mantle – where lava came from
• Southwest monsoon – July to September
• Northeast monsoon – October to December
• Day is longer – slowing down of earth rotation
• Perigee – point in moon orbit nearest to earth
• Aphelion – point in earth orbit farthest from the sun
• 152.05 million km – distance from sun to earth
• Storm surge – rapid rise of coastal water with cyclone
• Venus – no moon
• Nuclear fusion – star produce large amounts of energy
• Moro-ami – pounding of corals with a heavy weight
• Water – higher specific heat capacity compared to sand
• Sublimation – solid to gas
• Cement – to be safe in lightning
• Convex – mirror used in cars
• Liver – best for iron-deficient students
• Positive geotropism – roots of plants
• Hemodialyzer – machine used for malfunction of kidney
• Tropical cyclone – meteorology cannot predict
• Decrease transpiration – desert plant to have few leaves
• Twice the chromosomes – without the process of meiosis
• Organic compounds – compounds containing carbon
• Igneous – kind of rock abundant in the Bicol region
• Alkyl benzene sulfonate – substance in detergents which
causes foam in stream water
• Polymorphism – ants and honeybees as “caste system”
• Testosterone – development of secondary male sexual
characteristics
• Carotenoids – pigment of flowers and fruits responsible for
change in color
• Hemoglobin – gives the red color
• Solid – sound waves travel the fastest
• Increase in atmospheric CO2 – increased global temperatures
• Destruction of habitats – cause of dwindling biodiversity
• Releases noxious gases – incineration as waste disposal
• Light hits an object, bounces, and then enters the eyes – true
about light and seeing
• Raw egg white – similar effect as vinegar or citrus juice
• Increase nitrogen content in soil – ammonium sulfate
• Fungi – mold
• Lactic acid – essential to human but dangerous when highly
consumed
• No atmosphere – astronauts cannot communicate in moon
• Gangsa – flat gong
• Tultogan – Visayan drums made of bamboo
• Semantics – “dad”
• These – Th sound
• idz – voiced affricate
• upon – epi-
• Nursemaid – oxford in yaya
• Myth – Maria Makiling
• Trochaic – one stressed, one unstressed
• Dr. Zhivago – totalitarianism over Russia by Boris Paternak
• Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali
• Olympian Spring – Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
• War and Peace – greatest novel ever written by Leo Tolstoy
• Panchatantra – collection of Indian fables
• Mary Evans – George Eliot
• Samuel Clemens – Adventures of Huckleberry Firm
• Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
• Kalidasa – Indian Shakespeare
• Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book
• Cask of Amontillado – revenge and murder of Fortunato and
Montessor
• John F. Kennedy – “Ask not what America…”
• Julius Caesar – political realist
• Little Prince – ‘only the heart can see rightly’
• Antonio Villegas – festival of outstanding films every June
• DRTA – Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
• Hiatus – lapse
• Hubhub – commotion
• Erratic – inconsistent
• Excruciating – unbearable
• Cosmopolitan – sophisticated
• Sophomoric - immature
• Ability to spell words correctly – text messaging
• Forget what other people have done to hurt you – “write
injuries in dust, benefits in marbles”
• Shared – choral reading
• 6 – yunits sa Filipino noong 1978
• Sintaks – pag-uugnay ng salita para sa wastong pahayag
• Sematiks – pag-aaral ng kahulugan
• Gumugulo – umuukilkil
• Pangnilalaman – pangngalan, pang-abay, pang-uri, pandiwa
• Kareta – magsasaka, kalabaw
• Kuripot – malalim ang bulsa, lawit ang pusod
• Mainggit – mang-imbulo
• Walang paksa – walang tubig kahapon
• Felipe de Jesus – Unang Tunay na Makata
• Balitaw – kundiman in Bisaya
• Banaag at Sikat – pinakamahalagang nobela (1906)
• 1962 – Filipino ang diploma
• Pananda – ang mga
• Panitikan – nagpapahayag sa paraang organisado at artistiko
• William Shakespeare – “Ang pag-ibig ay hindi pag-ibig kapag
nagbabago kung nakakakita ng pagbabago”
• Tag-tuyot – tagbising panahon
• 21 – ponema ng Filipino
• Story frame – pagkakasunod-sunod ng pangyayari sa kuwento
• Mock-up – pagtuturo ng replica na yari sa isang tunay na
materyal
• Salawikain – “Kung anong bukambibig siyang laman ng dibdib”
• Pabuod – halimbawa tungo sa paglalahat
• Sarzuela – pamamagitan ng halong Tagalog at Kastila
• Phenomenal – umaaraw na
• Pormulasyong panlipunan – walang anuman
• Nagdadalantao – salitang Pambansa
• Pisyolohikal – pagkautal na sagabal sa pagsasalita
• Gamitin ang katutubong katumbas – rice terraces
• Alpabetong Romano – titik batay sa bigkas ng Ingles
• Excise tax – indirect tax
• Congress – power to declare war
• Egalitarianism – all citizens are equal
• Segregation – secessionist movement in Mindanao
• Eastern – Visayas, moist climate
• Xenocentrism – colonial mentality
• Limasawa – first mass in the Philippines
• Sikatuna – Legaspi blood compact in Bohol
• Emilio Jacinto – Kartilla of the Katipunan
• Stagflation - ↑ prices ↓ output
• Equator – imaginary line that divides the north and south
hemisphere
• Prime Meridian – imaginary line that divides the east and west
hemisphere
• Manuel Quezon – “My loyalty to my party…”
• Claro Recto – great dissenter
• Umalohokan – public announcer of barangay
• Timawa – Filipinos who were free and independent
• Become a province – assimilation of Philippines by Spain
• William McKinley – proclaimed Benevolent Assimilation policy
• Magsaysay – Little Man
• Fiscal policy – controls taxes and government expenditures
• Capitalism – free enterprise
• Australia – smallest continent (AsAfNSAnEau)
• Iraq – sending doctors and nurses
• South America – Cape Horn
• Maurya – Ashoka
• Napoleon Abueva – Father of Philippine Sculpture
• Amorsolo – planting rice
• Zealandia – lost continent
• Japanese – leaving footwear
• RA 9165 – shabu
• RA 7776 – integration of person with disabilities to society
• Censoring by authorities – rallies staged against lewd films
• Particularism – limit our love and concern to our families
• Equitable, Equal, Progressive – pro-poor taxation system
• Free trade – level of taxing is mutual between countries
• General Romulo – first presiding officer of the United Nation
• Dialogue – does not belong in Cold War
• Barangay empowerment – solved the caste and social strata
system in the Philippines society
• DARN – commit a drug dependent to achieve natural state
• Sinulog – Cebu
• Dinagyang – Iloilo
• Freedom from all forms of racial discrimination – right to
human dignity
• Credit cooperative – promotes thrift among members and
generates funds
• Assembly – supreme body in a cooperative
• Full public disclosure – public accountability and transparency
• Partially independent – President Quezon’s time
• Cultural relativism – no single universal standard to judge
another society or culture
• Bayanihan spirit – Gawad Kalinga
• Reagan’s foreign policy – giving aid to anticommunist rebels in
Nicaragua, Afghanistan, and Angola
• Books, literary works and music – final tax of 10%
• Inner peacelessness – drug addiction, neurosex
• Mt. Hibok-Hibok – volcanoes in the island of Mindanao
• Absolute equality – greatest value according to Karl Marx
• Selling of stocks to buyers – healthy banking industry
• Upper class – differed gratification
• Palay exchange and marketing – save harvest wastage
• Pagemaker – writing a letter
• Command – single phrase to tell computer what to do
• Local area network – links computer to a base computer to
share software materials