Lesson5 Commonly used keys to write text 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 which 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 open a new file, save a file and open existing files. 35 Moz: Yes. As you already know most of the activities have these options. Tejas: Do we write text in the blank space? Moz: Yes. Just like a new page in your notebooks. Jyoti: Shape of the mouse pointer is different in text editor. Moz: Good observation. Note that the mouse pointer is also called a cursor. It is a small blinking line. 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. Up and down arrow keys move the cursor up or down by one line at a time. Left and Right arrow keys move the cursor left or right by one letter at a time. 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. Next type the alphabet. Jyoti: A small light on the keyboard comes on when we press Caps lock key! Tejas: Pressing on 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. 36 Caps Lock Caps Lock Pressing on the Caps Lock key allows capital letter typing. Press the Caps Lock key once again to type lower case letters. A small green light on the keyboard indicates the status (light on – Capital letters, light off – lower case letters). Tejas and Jyoti write 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: 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 to the right of the cursor? Moz: Oh! Use the delete key. Making changes to the text that you have write is called editing the text. Delete Delete Key This key deletes the letter which is to the right of the cursor. Backspace Backspace Key This is the key on the keyboard which erases the letter before the cursor. It is marked either "Backspace" or “an arrow pointing to the left” and usually situated at the top right of the main keyboard area. 37 Tejas finished entering all the names and wants to give a title to the list. So he uses Up arrow key to move the cursor to the top of the page. WORKSHEETS 2.5 Moz: Instead of using the Up arrow key several times, Use Page Up to take the cursor up the pages. Use Page down to take the cursor down, page by page. Page Page Up Down 1. A picture of a keyboard is given below: Colour the keyboard as follows: Page Up/ Page Down These two keys are used to move the cursor up and down a page or the screen. The arrow keys and the Page Up and Page Down keys are called the navigational keys. Moz: Interesting names! Have you saved the list that you wrote? Tejas: I clicked on the Save button. The dialog box is asking me to enter a name for the file. Moz: Give an appropriate name so that you can easily find your file later. Tejas names the file Tfriends and Jyoti names her file Jfriends. Red for number keys Blue for the alphabet keys Green for Spacebar key Brown for Caps lock key Pink for arrow keys Yellow for Backspace key Orange for Page up and Page down keys Grey for Delete key Jyoti: Can we do some paintings using the paint 2. Match the columns: activity. Moz: Ok. I am going out of town for a few weeks I have prepared a list of activities for Save the text written. you. Start the activities tomorrow. LESSON Chin Chinaki... OUTCOME After you have studied this lesson, you will be able to: Open a New file to write text. -Understand the functions of specific keys on the keyboard -One more activity - childs play - multiplication tables Type capital letters using Caps Lock key. -Use backspace and delete key to make changes in the text. Open an existing file. -Use arrow keys to go move the pointer in different directions. -Use page up and down keys to go to the beginning and end of the document. 38 Tejas finished entering all the names and wants to give a title to the list. So he uses Up arrow key to move the cursor to the top of the page. WORKSHEETS 2.5 Moz: Instead of using the Up arrow key several times, Use Page Up to take the cursor up the pages. Use Page down to take the cursor down, page by page. Page Page Up Down 1. A picture of a keyboard is given below: Colour the keyboard as follows: Page Up/ Page Down These two keys are used to move the cursor up and down a page or the screen. The arrow keys and the Page Up and Page Down keys are called the navigational keys. Moz: Interesting names! Have you saved the list that you wrote? Tejas: I clicked on the Save button. The dialog box is asking me to enter a name for the file. Moz: Give an appropriate name so that you can easily find your file later. Tejas names the file Tfriends and Jyoti names her file Jfriends. Red for number keys Blue for the alphabet keys Green for Spacebar key Brown for Caps lock key Pink for arrow keys Yellow for Backspace key Orange for Page up and Page down keys Grey for Delete key Jyoti: Can we do some paintings using the paint 2. Match the columns: activity. Moz: Ok. I am going out of town for a few weeks I have prepared a list of activities for Save the text written. you. Start the activities tomorrow. LESSON Chin Chinaki... OUTCOME After you have studied this lesson, you will be able to: Open a New file to write text. -Understand the functions of specific keys on the keyboard -One more activity - childs play - multiplication tables Type capital letters using Caps Lock key. -Use backspace and delete key to make changes in the text. Open an existing file. -Use arrow keys to go move the pointer in different directions. -Use page up and down keys to go to the beginning and end of the document. 39 WORKSHEETS 2.5 3. Can you guess which of the following I am? I allow you to write alphabets. Enter I allow you to move to the next line. I allow you to move the cursor to the top of the page. I allow you to delete the letter to the left of the cursor. I allow you to move the cursor up, down, left and right. I allow you to delete the letter to the right of the cursor. I allow you to create blank space between two words. You use me to type numbers. If you press me you can type capital letters continuously. I allow you to move the cursor to the end of the page. WORKSHEETS 2.5 WORKSHEETS 2.5 4. Supandi does not know which keys are seen on a keyboard. Colour the 3. Can you guess which of the following I am? keys which are seen on the keyboard in red and the others in black. Enter I allow you to write alphabets. Enter I allow you to move to the next line. I allow you to move the cursor to the top of the page. I allow you to delete the letter to the left of the cursor. I allow you to move the cursor up, down, left and right. I allow you to delete the letter to the right of the cursor. I allow you to create blank space between two words. You use me to type numbers. If you press me you can type capital letters continuously. I allow you to move the cursor to the end of the page. 2.5 1. Falling words: Type the words before they reach the ground. To play this game, follow the following steps: Applications-->Games-->Educational Suite Gcompris--> Computer peripherals --> Keyboard games. 2. Move the helicopter to catch the clouds in the correct order. Catch the numbers in increasing order, using the up, down, right and left arrows on the keyboard to move the helicopter. To play this game, follow the following steps: Applications --> Games --> Educational suite GCompris -->Mathematics -->Numeration 2.5 2.5 1. Falling words: Type the words before they reach the ground.