Web Hunt 2: Surfing the Net

Your Name: _______________

1. What are the three types of email address mentioned in Setting Up an Internet Connection at Home? 1, _____________ 2, ______________ 3, ________________
2. If you haven't got one yet, get yourself an email address at yahoo or GMX (these are both free).
   My new email address is _______________@_____________
   1. Send yourself an email.
   2. Check your (web based) mail online.
   3. Send an email to another student or the teacher. Who did you send an email to? ____________________ Did they get it? Yes/No
3. If you got a Yahoo email address, you can play a game of Word Finder in the yahoo games room.
   Did you play against another person? Yes/No  
   Who won? ___________   How many points did you get? ______
4. What should you do if you get a virus warning email? ___________________________
   Find out in Some Tips for Surfing
5. Go to the BBC World Service Learning English Quiz page and try out the first quiz.
   How did you do? __________
6. What is your hobby or interest? __________________________ Look up your hobby in Metacrawler, a meta search engine. What was your first search string? ___________________________
   The Metacrawler lists which search engine found the hit. Which of the search engines got the most interesting or useful hit? _____________________
   Try searching for 2 or more words related to your hobby (e.g. your hobby and Munich).
   Click on all (this is the same as putting a + symbol in front of all of the words).
   Now try the same search string with any clicked.
   Did you get different results? _____
   Click on phrase (this is the same as putting quotes around the phrase). What was the phrase you searched for? _____________________
   Did you get different results? _______
   Did you find out anything interesting about your hobby? ____________________
7. Click on History (in the browser's tool bar) to find out which pages you have looked at today. Change View to "By Most Visited". Which page was the most visited? ________________ Click on one of the pages to view it again.
   Add one of the pages from the History to your Favourites. Which page did you add? _________________ Close the History window.
8. If you have speakers or headphones on your computer, listen to today's news in easy English from Voice of America.
   What was the main headline? _______________________________
   What was the last item of news? ___________________________
9. Go to the VoyCabulary site, enter the URL of any English page on the internet and choose the English-German dictionary to get a translation of any word you click on.
10. If you enjoyed this web hunt, try the next one Web Hunt 3: Learning English on the Internet