Remember: Select, copy, click, paste. Copy leaves the original. Look before you send.
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Ten party cardsTomas was making ten party cards for Gran, and typing the same line again and again made him sleepy. Uncle Bram showed him a better way. First, select: drag across the words until they light up. Next, copy: a copy of the words goes into a little pouch called the clipboard, and the words on the page stay put. Last, click where the copy should go and paste, and out comes a copy. The pouch keeps its copy until you copy something new, so Tomas pasted again and again until there were ten cards. Then he copied the word cake, and after it the word balloons. When he pasted, out came balloons, because the new copy took the place of the old one. From then on, Tomas looked at every paste before he sent anything.
1
What is the little pouch that holds a copy called?
the folderthe clipboardthe tab
2
After you copy some words, the words on the page disappear.
TrueFalse
3
Tomas copied the word cake, then copied the word balloons. What comes out when he pastes?
cakeboth wordsballoons
At the computer
4
Number the steps to copy a line to a new place.
Copy them
Paste
Select the words
Click where they go
5
Hold Control, then tap the blue key. Join each job to its key. Control is not drawn: hold it first.
1copy
2paste
3cut
Athe C key
Bthe X key
Cthe V key
6
Circle every one that is fine to paste into a party card.
the time of the partythe family's secret worda joke for Granthe code for the front door
7
Cut takes the words away from where they were, so you can move them somewhere new.
TrueFalse
8
Once you copy a line, you can paste it only one time.
TrueFalse
9
Fix the mistake: Uncle Bram left the family's secret word in the pouch. What should he do so nothing secret is left there?
paste it into a cardleave it, nobody will lookcopy a plain word, like hello
10
For a quick copy you hold the key and tap the C key.
enterspacecontrol
Copy and write
11
Copy it. Come to Gran's party on Saturday.
12
Write the three steps that make a copy appear in a new place, and one thing that should never be pasted into a card.
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Answer key · Set A
Copy, paste and the pouch
1the clipboard The pouch is called the clipboard. A folder keeps files, and a tab holds one page.
2False Copy leaves the words where they were and makes a second one. Cut is the one that takes them away.
3balloons The pouch holds only one thing at a time, so the new copy took the place of the old one.
42, 4, 1, 3 You select first, then copy, then click the spot, and last you paste.
51-A, 2-C, 3-B Control and the C key copy, Control and the V key paste, and Control and the X key cut. The X looks like scissors.
6the time of the party, a joke for Gran A secret word and the code for the front door are for the family only. They never go in a card or a message.
7True Cut is a cousin of copy, but it takes the first one away.
8False The pouch keeps its copy until you copy something new, so you can paste as many times as you like.
9copy a plain word, like hello Copying a plain word puts it in place of the secret one, so the pouch holds nothing secret.
10control You hold Control and tap the C key. Some computers use another key for that job, so ask a grown-up which one.
12Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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