Chapter 01 : Using ICT Tools To Search For Information

Activity 1

Familiarising with various types of search engines and browsers

(a) Recite the following poem and answer the questions that follow

What a revolution!

We suffer no more

A eases our search

A search for knowledge

What a place to be

The age of ICT.

Bored we will never be

Entertained and educated

Our thoughts increased in speed

Our knowledge enriched at a click

The click of your finger

Brings you back tons of information

Be wary though

It may bring woes to your life

If not lack of privacy

It is loss of control

Of what to believe or not

It is then isolation

Becoming antisocial

Too much of anything is indeed harmful.

Question

I. What is the poem about?

2. What is ICI?

3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of ICT?

(b) Find the meaning of the following words in the dictionary: ease, enrich, wary, woe, antisocial. Then construct a sentence for each word.

(c) Read the story below and answer the questions that follow.

Lost in the wild

Lwaga woke up to the sounds of birds chirping. "The birds! What time is it?" he murmured to himself with his eyes still closed. He knew he was late for school. He tried to wake up, but he couldn't move a muscle. His body ached all over. When he managed to sit up, he held his head in his hands as if it were heavy. He looked around in confusion. "Where am I?" He muttered to himself. Slowly his memory came back. He had been involved in a plane crash! He had won a Geography Essay Competition on water preservation in Africa. He was awarded together with other things, a paid trip to the Kingdom of Lesotho, a tiny landlocked country, bordered by South Africa. He remembered his excitement to visit The Kingdom in the Sky, as it is famously known and see Katse Dam, the second largest dam in Africa.

He found himself alone in an unfamiliar place. Lwaga remembered his phone in the waist pack. Amazingly, he found it in flight mode and the battery was at 37 per cent. Although he was weak, he managed to change the phone to the normal mode and send an SOS to all his emergency contacts. He pulled himself and started dragging himself to find out the signal. After an hour he found a strong signal and looked for his location on the Google Maps. He found out that he was in the middle of nowhere. Immediately, he pinpointed his location on the map and tried to tap the button "share". He felt dizzy; as he was struggling to hold his phone, he lost consciousness. When he regained consciousness, he realised that he was in hospital. His legs and one arm were in casts as he had several broken bones. Later they told him that the messages he had sent and the location he had shared helped the rescuers locate him. (Dedicated to the fallen heroes)

Questions

1. Who is the main character of the story?

2. What facilitated his rescue?

3. What have you learnt from the story?

4. How else can the use of the Internet enhance one's life?

5. Match the word in Column A with their meanings in Column B.

(d) Construct sentences using any five words listed in Column A in (c).

(e) Discuss and write down what comes to your mind when you see the Word in the picture below and complete the task that follows.

1. Copy the image in your exercise book. 'Thereafter, complete the image using the words and phrases from the discussion.
2. Pronounce the words you have identified in (d) and give their meanings.
3. List down different uses of the Internet that you know.

(f) Study the following picture of search engines and browsers then answer the questions.

Questions

1. Which among the browsers and search engines listed in (f)have you ever used?

2. Why did you use them?

3. What other browsers and search engines are you familiar with?

(a) Read the extract and study the web page that follow. Then, answer the questions after it.

Leila is a student at Rungwe Secondary School. She plans to visit the Tanzania Institute of Education, which is the centre for curriculum excellence in the country. Her visit aims to get more information about the Institute and buy some books. Before the visit, she needs to get information about the Institute from the Internet which will help her to prepare well. Her search directed her to the following page: