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Lesson5 Activities using a keyboard In this lesson you will learn to use: Caps Lock, Backspace and Delete keys. A m The four directional arrow keys, Page Up, Page Down keys. Tejas: Moz, We want to prepare a list of our friends. Which activity can we use ? Moz: Use the text editor activity. This enables you to write and make changes to the text. Tejas and Jyoti double click on the text editor icon with the mouse. Tejas: Similar to the paint activity, text editor has options to create a new file, open files that are already created and save a files. Cursor 35 Moz: Yes. As you already know most of the activities have these common options. Tejas: Do we write text in the blank space? Moz: Yes. Just like writing a new page in your notebooks. Jyoti: The shape of the mouse pointer is different in the text editor. Moz: Good observation. The mouse pointer in a text editor is also called a cursor. It is a small blinking vertical line. Jyoti: Moz, We can write text using the alphabet keys and number keys on the keyboard. I want to type my friend‛s name. How can I write capital letters? Moz: First press on the Caps Lock key. Then type the alphabets. Jyoti: A small light on the keyboard comes on when we press Caps Lock key! Tejas: Pressing the Caps Lock key again is giving lower case alphabets. The light on the keyboard is now off! Moz: Good. The light indicates if the Caps Lock key is on or off. Caps Lock Caps Lock Pressing on the Caps Lock key allows typing in capital letters. 1. Press the Caps Lock key once again to type lower case letters. 2. A small green light on the keyboard indicates the status (light on – Capital letters, light off – lower case letters). SKILL 36 Tejas and Jyoti write the names of their friends one below the other. Moz: Good, you have used the Enter key to go to the next line. Jyoti typed Sweetha instead of Swetha and wants to delete the extra 'e' in the name. Jyoti: Moz, I want to move the cursor back. How do I do this? Moz: You can use the 4 directional arrow keys on the keyboard to move the cursor within the text. Arrow keys There are four arrow keys on a keyboard. These keys allow you to move the cursor up, down, left and right. 1. Up and down arrow keys move the cursor up or down by one line at a time. 2. Left and Right arrow keys move the cursor left or right by one letter at a time. SKILL Jyoti: I used the left arrow key to take the cursor to the letter 'e' that I want to erase. How do I erase the letter? Moz: Use the Backspace key. Jyoti: Backspace key is erasing the letter before the cursor. How do I erase a letter which is after the cursor? Moz: Oh! Use the Delete key. Making changes to the text that you have written is called editing the text. Making changes to the text that you have written is called editing the text. CONCEPTS Backspace Backspace Key This key erases the letter before the cursor. It is marked Backspace. It is usually the last key in the row of numbers. SKILL 37 Delete Delete Key This key deletes the letter which is after the cursor. SKILL Tejas finished entering all the names and wants to give a title to the list. So he uses the Up arrow key to move the cursor to the top of the page. Moz: Instead of using the Up arrow key several times, Use Page Up. This will take the cursor up one page at a time. Use Page Down to take the cursor down, page by page. Page Page Up Down Page Up/ Page Down These two keys are used to move the cursor up or down, one page at a time. SKILL The arrow keys and the Page Up and Page Down keys are called the navigational keys. They help us to move around in the pages. 38 Delete Moz: ( Looking at the list) Interesting names! Have you saved the list in a file? Delete Key Tejas: I clicked on the Save button. The dialog box is This key deletes the letter which is after the cursor. SKILL asking me to enter a name for the file. Moz: Give a suitable name so that you can easily find your file Tejas finished entering all the names and wants to give a title to the later. list. So he uses the Up arrow key to move the cursor to the top of Tejas names the file ‘t-friends’ and Jyoti names her file ‘j-friends’. the page. Jyoti: Can we do some paintings using the paint activity. Moz: Instead of using the Up arrow key several times, Use Page Up. Moz: Ok. I am going out of town for a few weeks. I have prepared a This will take the cursor up one page at a time. Use Page Down to list of activities for you. Start the activities take the cursor down, page by page. tomorrow. Chin Chinaki... Page Page Up Down Page Up/ Page Down These two keys are used to move the cursor up or down, one page at a time. SKILL The arrow keys and the Page Up and Page Down keys are called the navigational keys. They help us to move around in the pages. LESSON OUTCOME After you have studied this lesson, you will be able to: Understand the functions of specific keys on the keyboard. Use backspace and delete key to make changes in the text. Use arrow and navigation keys to go move the cursor in different directions. WORKSHEETS WORKSHEETS Book II | Lesson 5 Book II | Lesson 5 3. Can you guess which of the following I am? Pick from the coloured keys in the picture below. 1. A picture of a keyboard is given below. Colour the keyboard as follows: a) I allow you to write alphabets. Red for number keys Blue for the alphabet keys Green for Spacebar key Brown for Caps lock key b) I allow you to move to the next line. Pink for arrow keys Yellow for Backspace key Orange for Page up and Page down keys Grey for Delete key c) I allow you to move the cursor to the top of the page. d) I allow you to delete the letter to the left of the cursor. 2. Match the columns: e) I allow you to move the cursor up, down, left and right. Save the text written. f) I allow you to delete the letter to the right of the cursor. g) I allow you to create blank space between two words. Create a New file to write text. h) You use me to type numbers. Open an already created file. i) If you press me you can type capital letters continuously. j) I allow you to move the cursor to the end of the page. 39 WORKSHEETS WORKSHEETS Book II | Lesson 5 Book II | Lesson 5 3. Can you guess which of the following I am? Pick from the coloured keys in the picture below. 1. A picture of a keyboard is given below. Colour the keyboard as follows: a) I allow you to write alphabets. Red for number keys Blue for the alphabet keys Green for Spacebar key Brown for Caps lock key b) I allow you to move to the next line. Pink for arrow keys Yellow for Backspace key Orange for Page up and Page down keys Grey for Delete key c) I allow you to move the cursor to the top of the page. d) I allow you to delete the letter to the left of the cursor. 2. Match the columns: e) I allow you to move the cursor up, down, left and right. Save the text written. f) I allow you to delete the letter to the right of the cursor. g) I allow you to create blank space between two words. Create a New file to write text. h) You use me to type numbers. Open an already created file. i) If you press me you can type capital letters continuously. j) I allow you to move the cursor to the end of the page. WORKSHEETS Book II | Lesson 5 4. Supandi does not know which keys are seen on a keyboard. Help him by colouring the keys which are seen on the keyboard in red and the others in black. Enter 5. Match the following keys with their functions. Page Up Erases the letter before the cursor Backspace Allows you to type capital let ters Delete Allows you to move up a pa ge Caps Lock Erases the letter after the cursor WORKSHEETS Book II | Lesson 5 Book II | Lesson 5 1. Falling words: Type the words before they reach the ground. To play this game, 4. Supandi does not know which keys are seen on a keyboard. follow the following steps: Applications-->Games-->Educational Suite Gcompris--> Help him by colouring the keys which are seen on the keyboard Computer peripherals --> Keyboard games. in red and the others in black. Enter 2. Move the helicopter using the up, down, right and left arrows on the keyboard to catch the clouds. Catch the numbers in increasing order. To play this game, follow the following steps: Applications --> Games --> Educational suite GCompris -->Mathematics-->Numeration 5. Match the following keys with their functions.