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The One Ronnie (BBC, UK), "My Blackberry's Not Working!": Vocabulary: Word Play

The document provides a vocabulary matching activity to practice technology related words and their definitions. It then presents language functions for talking about technical problems, including constructions for asking for help, giving advice, and explaining when an issue cannot be solved. Learners are prompted to role play a customer asking a sales assistant for help with a made up technical problem.

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The One Ronnie (BBC, UK), "My Blackberry's Not Working!": Vocabulary: Word Play

The document provides a vocabulary matching activity to practice technology related words and their definitions. It then presents language functions for talking about technical problems, including constructions for asking for help, giving advice, and explaining when an issue cannot be solved. Learners are prompted to role play a customer asking a sales assistant for help with a made up technical problem.

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The One Ronnie (BBC, UK), "My Blackberry's Not Working!

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Vocabulary: Word Play

Match the words in the middle column with their two definitions; one from the left column and one
from the right.

A word that sounds sexually suggestive! Apple Start a device for the first time.

A small animal. Black Spot An operating system for PCs.

When a liquid turns to a solid due to Blackberry A popular technology company


low temperature. famous for the iPhone.
.
Kick something hard. Boot A device used for connecting a
computer to WiFi.

Set in physical motion. Crash A mobile phone company.

A disease of plants. Date Colloquial: battery power

The liquid gained from fruit. Desktop A place where it's difficult to find a
mobile phone signal.

A violent collision. Dongle The place on a computer where


unwanted files etc. are put.

A dried fruit. Eggs Box £3.60 A type of smart phone.

A citrus fruit. Frozen A serious computer failure.

A container where things we no longer Juice A computer suitable for use at an


want are put. ordinary desk.

A green fruit that grows on a tree. Launch A popular console by Microsoft.

A small fruit, common in the UK. Mouse A small device used to move a cursor
on a computer screen.

The working space of a table in an Orange When a computer screen becomes


office. unresponsive.

An open space in a wall fitted with Trash Open a computer application.


glass.

A box of eggs costing three pounds fifty. Windows The day of the month or year
represented by a number.

Now practice the vocabulary with a friend. Read one of the definitions, your partner must say the
word and try to remember the other definition of the word.

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Functional Language: Talking About Problems

Decide the function of the following constructions, then what the video again to check your ideas.

Asking for help/presenting a problem Giving advice/solving the problem

Asking for more information Explaining that you don't know how to solve
the problem

a) "Could you get my ____________ working?"


b) "What's the matter?"
c) "I'll tell you what, let's try _______________.
d) "My _________________ is not working."
e) "Well it could be a(n) ___________________ issue."
f) "You could try ______________."
g) "...then after you've done that..."
h) "I've already tried that a few times and all it did was _____________"
i) "It might be worth ___________________"
j) Could you get me a _________________?"
k) "Let me try __________________"
l) "I can't make head nor tail of it."
m) "Anything else I could help you with?"
n) "I've also got a problem with my ________________"
o) "What's the problem with it?"
p) "I don't know much about _______________________."
q) "I'm afraid there's not a lot I can do about that."

Look again at the constructions above with the spaces ______________. Think about what
type of word could go in the space: noun, gerund, a tense? For some, more than one option
is correct.

Speaking: Role Plays

You are now going to produce your own shop scenario in which the customer asks for help
from the sales assistant. You can make up your own problems or use some of the vocabulary
from the first activity as inspiration. Make sure you use the constructions from this page in
your role plays.

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