Example: you / help me? Could you help me, please?
1 give me / the new password? _________________________________________
2 shut / the door? _________________________________________ 3 check / my answers? _________________________________________ 4 recommend / an external hard drive? _________________________________________ 5 enter / the data for me? _________________________________________ 6 explain that / again? _________________________________________
2 Complete these conversations with should or shouldn’t.
7 A: My computer isn’t working. B: You ____________ buy a new computer. 8 A: I can’t remember my password. B: You ____________ ask the administrator. 9 A: I gave my password to a friend. B: You ____________ give your password to another person. 10 A: What ____________ I do? There’s no internet connection. B: Call the network administrator. 11 A: My computer’s crashed and I’ve lost all my work! B: You ____________ always back up your work. 12 A: The battery overheated. B: You ____________ leave the laptop on charge all the time.
3 Complete this conversation with the words in the box. You do not need all the words. enter got has right ’s should then
A: Can you help me, please?
B: What (13) ____________ the problem? A: I don’t know how to access the customer information. B: (14) ____________ your username and password. All (15) ____________? A: Yes, but what do I do (16) ____________? B: Press 2 followed by CUSTOMER. (17) ____________ that? A: Oh, yes. Here it is. Thanks.
4 Match words 1–5 with definitions a–e. 18 human resources a data about quantity of product in storage 19 data collection b double-checking and cleaning data 20 stock management c data about product specifications, details and design 21 data validation d data about employees, training and recruitment 22 data tabulation e gathering raw data 23 production f arranging data into table format for analysis
5 Complete these sentences with the words in the box. You do not need all the words. about at between for from in into of
24 You must put that ____________ the first column.
25 What’s the difference ____________ these two systems? 26 I’m worried ____________ my computer. It’s very slow. 27 Akil works ____________ a big computer company. 28 You need to retrieve the data ____________ the database. 29 How many people can access the information ____________ the same time? 30 We organise the data ____________ relevant groups.
(Cognition and Poetics) Burke, Michael - Troscianko, Emily - Cognitive Literary Science - Dialogues Between Literature and Cognition-Oxford University Press (2017) PDF
