1.2 Listening
Write the suggestions under the appropriate headings. Ensure that you include the need to make an outline and to make notes, as students will be expected to make some notes in this lesson. (Lesson 1.3 will provide suggestions on different ways to approach making notes.)
SKILLS BANK 1.1 Preparing for a lecture
SKILLS BANK 1.2 Listening and taking notes
At this point, you should draw students’ attention to Skills Bank 1.1 and 1.2. Explain that you will return to look at these points in more detail.
Give students time to prepare to make some notes. Tell them that they are only going to hear the introduction once, as in an authentic lecture situation.
Set for individual work. 01
Play Part 1 of the lecture. Feed back on the board.
Suggested answers •
different areas in computing
• language of computing • possible definition for computing
01 Part 1
Good morning, and welcome to the School of Computing. As head of school, it gives me great pleasure to see so many of you here today taking your first steps towards working in what I believe is one of the most exciting and interesting areas of our time. The electronic computer is one of the most important developments of the last century, and it is arguably the one which has most profoundly changed the world we live in. So many things that we now take for granted in our everyday lives are only possible because of developments in computing. And computing continues to develop; I’m sure that you will see as many advances in your careers as I have seen in mine. So, in my lecture today, I am going to begin by
introducing you to some of the subjects that you will study on your course. After that, I will introduce some of the new language you will need to learn as part of your studies. Beginning to study in a new field is like travelling in a new country, where everything seems different. Finding places where the language is similar to the one you already know can help you to find your way more easily. And we will finish by looking at a possible definition of the word computing.
02
Set for individual work, and remind students to take notes as they listen to Part 2 of the lecture. Do not comment further before they have listened.
Answer
The two meanings are to move quickly on foot and to make something happen. To make something happen is relevant to the meaning of run in computing.
02 Part 2
So, as I mentioned before, studying computing means you will need to learn many new words. However, some words used in computing are already part of general English. A good example of this is the word run. In everyday English, it means to move quickly on foot, which I think all of you will already know; and it also means to make
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The word computing can mean different things in
different contexts, and we will look at this when we try to create a definition. However, fortunately for us, there are some fundamental concepts which are relevant to all areas of computing. All computing is based on some type of computing device, which we call hardware. Hardware comes in many different shapes and sizes, but it always means physical devices – that is to say: we can see and touch them. These devices are driven by computer programs, which we call software. These programs are written in some type of code and are stored on some type of hardware so they can be run when needed. Another fundamental concept in computing is data, which the computer processes and stores or outputs. To be useful to us, a computer needs to be able to take data as an input, to process this data in some way and to either store it or output it in a way which is useful. The data can be in different forms, such as text, audio or video. We use different data structures to manage different types of information, and we use different ways of processing the information, which we call algorithms, depending on what we want to do with the data. Over the last 50 years, the nature of the hardware we use, the software we write and the data structures and algorithms we construct have changed significantly, but these fundamental concepts have remained at the core of computing. So, already, we have identified some key concepts which will be central to your studies: hardware; software; data and algorithms.
METHODOLOGY NOTE Listening once
In this course, students are taught to expect only one hearing during the lesson, and are encouraged to develop coping strategies to enable them to extract the key points during this one hearing. Listening texts may be repeated for further analysis but not for initial comprehension.
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