Worksheet 3 for learners (E4E Handbook 2004, p.19)

How to access and use English for Everyone E4E

How do I access E4E?

Look for the E4E icon on the desk top [=the blue screen]

Double click on it [left click, not right click]

Or

Go to ® START à PROGRAMS à ENGLISH FOR EVERYONE à left click

Next

When the first page of English for Everyone appears:

Go to ® START

This will take you to the HOME PAGE

The home page is the CENTRE of English for Everyone.

On the HOME page you have 4 choices :

Writing

Reading

General topics

Advanced topics

Each of these is the centre of a web you can explore

For all learners

Explore the four topics.

If you get lost:

• click on HOME in the NAVIGATION BAR

or

• choose Writing in the menu on your left.

Use the menus and the hyperlinks to navigate.

For learners who have not used a computer before.

Use WORKSHEET 1 Words for new users and WORKSHEET 2 Getting started

For all learners

• Open a new document using your word processor.
  Type your name, and save your file on a disk.
  Label your disk.
• Practice moving from E4E to your work, and from your work
  to E4E using the status bar.
  Find WORKSHEET 3
  (Go to My computer à C:/ à Worksheet 3).
• Save it on to your disk (a:/)

5 x lesson introduction to computer literacy for language support

LESSON 1 Read: Worksheet: Words for New Users Switch on, log in, wait for the blue screen (=the desk top) On the desk top, look for the icon E4E This is a shortcut to English for Everyone Right click on E4E Use the mouse - no keyboard or disks Learn to navigate in E4E Go to Start àwritingà essaysàhome Startàwritingàwhat was wrong with my essayàgrammaràhome Startàwritingàreportsàabstractàhome Startàreadingàtextmappingàexplore Look at Navigation menu on the left, the Index Did-you-knows, general topics and advanced topics Close Log off	LESSON 2 Access your word processing program. Minimise it, then maximise it from the status bar. Pass your cursor over the menu bars and tool bars - - the mouse-over box will show to tell you what they are Minimise MSWord, so that you can open E4E Move from E4E to MSWord and back This is how you will use E4E to support you when you write Type your name, and the full title of the task for your course on your document Go to Saveàfolder [sociology or bus com or law or edu ] and enter your file name as your surname task 1 Close Log off
LESSON 3 Find Worksheet: Editing (at c:/my docs/editing practice) Save to Our Folder:/ your name/editing 1. Open E4E Use ‘What went wrong…’ to help you edit Edit the four examples of student work, using E4E as support. You will learn:-- Typing, layout, editing, language support, web navigation, and file management Save, Close Log out	LESSON 4 Worksheet 2: writing a CV using E4E (in Handbook) Use the spelling checker, the grammar checker and the calculator. You will learn:-- to do more complicated layout, save and retrieve your work, make tables and enter data in them, format tables, sort table contents WHY? Because you need those skills to write your project / report Save, Close Log out
LESSON 5 You now have 3 files in the folder with your name on it: task1 (Editing), task 2 (CV), and the beginning of the report or essay you will do for your special subject. TASK Look at the comments in blue which have been added to your work and see if you can improve it. To learn further: o always read what the screen in front of you says o use the word processor help files, o explore and use E4E, and keep it open while you work o use a dictionary, the spelling check and the grammar check o Don’t panic, try undo.