Topic 4

Task 1

Fill in the table below to identify the information needed and its possible sources. The first one has been done for you. You can download it here:

Task	Possible Information Required	Possible Sources Of Information
Plan a Saturday shopping trip to Shenzen for your family and some friends	1. Does anyone need a visa to enter China? 2. Where does the train leave from? 3. Does the border crossing close at any time? 4. Which are the reliable shops?	1. Friends who have done this trip before 2. The HK Government Website 3. A travel agent 4. A KCR station
Book tickets to see a film at Sha Tin Cinema for you and some friends
Choose a book as a birthday present for a friend
Plan a visit to the Heritage Museum in Tai Wai for some family friends or relatives who are staying with you.
Plan a self-portrait for an art project based one of the portraits painted by Leonardo DaVinci

Keywords to learn:

Sources
Website
Google
Database
Search
Keywords
Phrases
Match
Authentic
Reliable
Network
Folder
Online
Attachment

Task 2

Fill in the missing words:

The website address for Google is
Google is a , which matches that you type in,
against a list of _ that contain those ___ that holds in a database (A really big set of lists).

Use these words to fill in the gaps in the paragraph above. One of these words will be used 2 times.
keywords	web pages	search engines	www.google.com

Task 3

Making Google work well for your searches
Google tries to find web pages with every combination of words that you type in to give you some useful results, but it also gives lots of results that you do not want.

Here are some ways to make your searches on Google more useful

• try not to use any capital letters
• put speech marks " ... ...... " around phrases so Google does not search for the words separately, e.g."hong kong"