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Information Technology Workshop is a series of 28 self-contained lessons covering all the important aspects of information technology (IT). This book is designed to offer lower-intermediate students a practical foundation in information technology so that they can communicate effectively in English in the real world. The book begins with a set of lessons on the computer and its components (Lessons 1-7). This is followed by a set on the Internet (Lessons 8-26). The series ends with two lessons on the topic of Man and IT (Lessons 27-28). A glossary of computational vocabulary is provided at the end of the book. For each entry (printed in bold), the glossary provides the pronunciation, the part of speech, and the definition (taken or adapted from the Oxford Student's Dictionary). Each lesson consists of six sections. After the introductory section, entitled Before you start there is a section involving reading comprehension. This is followed by a section focusing on vocabulary related to the topic of lesson. The fourth and fifth sections provide practice in developing speaking and writing skills. The sixth section contains supplementary activities, and comes with the catchy title, Get real. In the introductory section, the students engage in a pre-activity, which is either an exercise or a guided discussion about the topic of the lesson. The activities may involve pair work or group work. The exercises come in a variety of types: matching exercises, re-ordering exercises, check-list exercises, listing exercises, and gap-filling exercises. The second section provides the students with an authentic text taken from a variety of sources, such as a user's manual, a computer book, an advertisement, an interview, a message on a help menu of a computer program, or website. In most cases, the paragraphs are numbered for convenience of reference, and keywords and important vocabulary items are highlighted. The purpose here is to build vocabulary as well as reading comprehension skills. The section includes a matching exercise, in which the student has to match given headings with an appropriate paragraph or part of the text. Other types of reading comprehension exercises included in the section are: true-false, short answers, gap filling, odd one out