Double click on Internet Explorer to open the internet
When you know the address of the web site you wish to visit enter it in full in the address bar and press RETURN key on your keyboard.
- Type www.bbc.co.uk and press return.
- Follow the links to News.
- Click on a news story of interest
- Enter the web address www.aerlingus.com
- Click on the Timetables link
- Find the timetable from Belfast to London Heathrow next month?
- What times are the flights?
- Enter the web address www.google.co.uk
- Click on the Maps link along the top of the page
- Enter your postcode in the search the map box and click Search Maps button
- Click Satellite to see your home from space
- Enter the web address www.worldtouristattractions.co.uk
- Click on The Wheels
- Click The Wheel of Belfast in partnership with Ulster Bank
- What is the cost of an adult ticket?
- Enter the web address www.kuoni.co.uk
- Click on Special Offers
- Click on the name of the first hotel
- What is the cheapest price for this hotel?
- Enter the web address www.jamesvillas.co.uk
- Click Our Destinations
- What are James Villas New destinations?
- Enter the web address www.amazon.co.uk
- Click on Books
- What is the best selling book at the moment?
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You want to find your horoscope for the week using the MSN website as a starting point.
- Go to www.msn.co.uk/horoscopes
- Click on the Horoscopes tab
- Scroll down the page to the sections entitled “Daily Horoscopes” and select your own birth sign from the drop down list
- Copy the main text from this horoscope and paste it into a Word document
- Copy the URL of this page and paste it into the same document
- You want to find out the weather for your region as you are planning a day out
- On the MSN website, along the top, click on the Weather link
- The Weather page will appear. Type your postcode or town name in the find weather for box at the top of the page
- The weather for your town will appear
- Scroll down to see the weather for the next 5 days
- Click on the link to see the 10 day forecast
- Refresh this page
- You want to check the TV listings for tonight’s television
- Open a new window (Page, New Window/CTRL+N)
- Click in the address bar at the top of the screen
- Type the address www.bbc.co.uk
- On the bbc website, click on the TV tab along the top of the screen
- Click on the BBC one schedule
- Click on “Full TV listings”
- The listings will appear on the screen
- Select one of the programmes to get a detailed description
- Create a folder in your favourites called TV guides
- Add the bbc one TV page to this folder
- Click on the Radio tab along the top
- Stop the page from loading
- In the address bar type www.translink.co.uk
- In the journey planner table type Lisburn to Belfast
- Click on the Search button
- In the page that appears change the time of your journey and decide if you want to go by train or bus then click Update
- A list of the services will appear
- Refresh this webpage
Aer Lingus
You are going to find out some information about flights.
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Google maps
You are going to find out your address
Belfast Big Wheel
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World Attractions
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James Villas
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Amazon
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After reading your horoscope, go to the MSN homepage
You want to plan a journey in Northern Ireland
Checking the lottery
From the webpage www.msn.co.uk, click on the National lottery link along the left hand side
Then click on the All Results link
Or type in the address www.national-lottery.co.uk
Or perform a search using google
Add this webpage to your favourites
Finding a recipe
Type in the address www.bbc.co.uk/food
Click in the Quick Recipe search area and type an ingredient (eg. Chicken)
Click on Search
Scroll down the page to find the recipe you want
Click on the name of the recipe and the whole thing will come up on the page
Click on the Print Friendly Version
Hold down the Alt key until the menus appear along the top of the screen
Go to File, Page Set up
Change the orientation to Landscape
Change the margins to 20 all round
As a header type in the name of the recipe
Put your name as a footer
Print out a copy of the recipe
Close the recipe window and then use the back button to return to the national lottery page
Tourist information in Northern Ireland
Go to the google webpage
Type in the text Northern Ireland Tourist information
Select www.discovernorthernireland.com from the list of search results
Click on the Places to stay tab along the top of the page
Select Belfast from the Town/City option and check the Hotel option
Scroll down the page and click on the search accommodation option
Scroll down and look at the hotels available. Click on one to bring up a more detailed description.
Create a folder in your Favourites
Call it Tourist Information
Save 2 different hotel pages to this folder
At the top of the page click on the Things to do tab
Select Castles and Monuments
On the map click on any that are around the Belfast area
Add one of them to your folder in Favourites
Save an image from any page on this site to My Pictures
Copy a paragraph of text and paste it into a Word Document
Looking up cinema times and local information
Go to www.lisburn.com
In the Entertainment section click on Cinemas
Click on the Cinema Lisburn Omniplex link
All the cinema times and films for the week are displayed
Click on the X in the top right hand corner of the screen to close this window
Close this window and return to the Lisburn.com homepage
Click on the Photographs link
Select one of the photographs to view it full size
Right click on the mouse over the picture and select Save picture as option
Save the picture as Lisburn Picture to My Pictures.
We may use this picture later in the course
Theatres in Belfast
There are 3 main theatres in Belfast, the opera house, lyric and Waterfront. Below are the website addresses for all three
www.goh.co.uk
www.waterfront.co.uk
www.lyrictheatre.co.uk
1.Go to the Grand Opera House website
Use the sites search facility to find listings of ballets
In the Theatre Info section, look up the history of the opera house
2.Go to the Waterfront homepage and enter the site
View information on Art Exhibitions at the Waterfront
Look up information on Disabled Access
Copy text from this section and paste it into a Word document. Save the document as Waterfront to My Documents
3.Go the The Lyric’s homepage
Look up the telephone number for the theatre
Take a look at what’s on in the theatre
Belfast Telegraph
Using Google, go to the Belfast Telegraph home page
Read today’s headlines
Click on one of the headlines to read the full article
Use the back button to go back to the main page
Save this page as a text document to your ecdl folder
Click on the Loadsajobs link to look at current jobs in education
Yellow Pages
This is available online as well as in the phone book. Sometimes it is better to use it online because it can give you email and website information not available in the book.
Go to www.yell.com
In the search for box type Taxis
In the Location box type Belfast
Click on Search
The results of your search are displayed on the page. Sometimes you have to scroll down the page to see them all, and if there is more than one page it will say so at the bottom of the page.
Most results have maps with them, just click on the word Map below the address and phone number.
Add the Yell.com page to your favourites
To return to the rest of the search results click on the Back button on the toolbar
