2 Language Skills worksheet

Reading
1 Read about Lim Ding Wen from Singapore. What kind of computer program did he create?

Computer Whizz Kid

Lim Ding Wen is an 18-year-old school boy from Singapore, but he
isn’t an ordinary 18-year-old. He loves computers and his interest in
computers has taken him into the world of big business. When he was
only nine years old, he created a computer program called Doodle
Kids for his two younger sisters. At the time they were only three
and five years old. They loved drawing and Lim Ding Wen wanted to
make a very simple program that they could use easily.
He originally created Doodle Kids on his computer, but since then he
has adapted it for the iPhone and now you can download it from the
Internet. It took just a few days to write the program. It’s very simple and easy to use. You can draw squares,
circles, lines and different shapes in different sizes and different colours. Once you have drawn the pictures you
can change them into moving images and create your own cartoons!
Lim Ding Wen loves computers. In fact, he started using computers when he was only two years old and he
learnt his first program when he was seven. This isn’t surprising because Lim Ding Wen’s father, Lim Thye Chean,
is a chief technology officer for a hi-tech company and he also writes iPhone applications. Although he is only
eighteen years old now, Lim Ding Wen can ‘speak’ six different programing languages including ActionScript and
JavaScript. When he created Doodle Kids he was probably the youngest Apple programmer in the world.

2 Answer the questions. 3 Complete the sentences with the correct

information.
1 Where is Lim Ding Wen from?
1 You can use Doodle Kids to create .
2 Lim Ding Wen started using computers when he
2 How old was he when he created Doodle Kids? .
3 When he was seven years old
he .
3 Who did he create it for? 4 Lim Ding Wen’s father is a .
5 When he wrote Doodle Kids he was probably
the youngest .
6 Since then he has worked on .

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Writing Listening
4 You are going to write a short web article. 5 02 Listen to a radio programme about
Read the notes below about Peter Ash and an interesting website and circle the correct
write a paragraph of 80 to 100 words about his answers.
invention.
1 Who is Stephen Fry?
a) An artist and writer.
b) A technology expert and businessman.
c) An actor, writer and comedian.
2 What are they reviewing on the radio programme
today?
a) Stephen Fry’s book.
b) Stephen Fry’s TV programme.
c) Stephen Fry’s website.
3 What is a techno-geek?
a) Someone who hates technology.
b) Someone who buys a lot of gadgets.
c) Someone who loves technology.
4 What did Lance do when he visited
Stephen Fry’s website?
a) He downloaded some podcasts.
Name and age: Peter Ash, 19
b) He uploaded a photo onto the website.
Date: 2005, a project for his school science
exams c) He posted a comment on the blog.
Invention: mobile phone charger 5 What does Stephen Fry have a collection of?
Idea: watched pet hamster in a cage run a) MP3 players.
around hamster wheel b) Memory sticks.
Result: 30 minutes talking time on his phone, c) iPhones.
for every two minutes the hamster runs
6 What did John (the presenter) buy last week?
Future: Peter wants to be an engineer
a) An e-book.
b) A mobile phone.
c) A new computer.

Remember!
Regular verbs + -(e)d or Irregular verbs
decide – decided; talk – talked; have – had;
write – wrote

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Speaking pairwork Student A
1 Look at the prompts and the words in the box. Take turns with Student B to ask questions about
what you did yesterday.

an email ​
blog ​ computer game ​ data ​ digital camera ​
Did you send
document ​e-book ​memory stick ​mobile phone ​MP3 player ​
an email yesterday?
music ​online ​phone call ​photo ​text message ​the Internet

send make a use read a

read an send a download some scan a

plug in a charge your take a photo with your chat

print a store play a listen to your

2 If the answer is yes, ask another question using When, What time, Who or Why.

Who did you send it to? /

What time did you send it?

3 Make a note of Student B’s answers. When you have both finished, go through your answers
and compare them.
Student B

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Speaking pairwork Student B
1 Look at the prompts and the words in the box. Take turns with Student A to ask questions about
what you did yesterday.

an email ​
blog ​ computer game ​ data ​ digital camera ​
Did you send
document ​ e-book ​
memory stick ​ mobile phone MP3 player ​
an email yesterday?
music ​online ​phone call ​photo ​text message ​the Internet

send make a use read a

read an send a download some scan a

plug in a charge your take a photo with your chat

print a store play a listen to your

2 If the answer is yes, ask another question using When, What time, Who or Why.

Who did you send it to? /

What time did you send it?

3 Make a note of Student A’s answers. When you have both finished, go through your answers
and compare them.
Student A

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Speaking: Teacher’s notes
Language

Past simple questions

Instructions
1 Divide the class into pairs and decide who is Student A and B in each pair. Hand out one
Student A worksheet and one Student B worksheet to each pair.
2 Students look at the prompts and work out how they would make past simple questions
by matching the picture prompts and the words in the box, e.g. Did you send an email
yesterday?
3 Students take turns asking and answering the questions on their worksheets.
They must remember that if their partner answers Yes, I did to the first question,
they must ask a follow-up question using When, What time, Who or Why, e.g.:
A: Did you send an email yesterday?
B: Yes, I did.
A: Who did you send it to?
4 Students make a note of each other’s answers.
5 When they have finished, students go through their answers and compare them.

Answers
Students’ own answers.

Optional activity
● In pairs, encourage students to find out more about how their partner uses technology
by asking How often questions, e.g. How often do you … chat online / play computer
games / use the Internet, etc.
● Do an open class survey and find out the most popular IT activity and which student
does it the most.

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