KS1 Communication | Social Media and Email

Computing Quiz - Computers For Communication (Questions)

This quiz addresses part of the requirements of the National Curriculum KS1 for children aged 5 and 6 in years 1 and 2 in Computing. Specifically it looks at communication using email, Skype and social media in our work and our social life. It is one of 20 quizzes to help you find out about how computers work, and how they affect all our lives.

Communication means keeping in touch. Computers help us keep in touch. They also help us work together. This quiz helps you find out a little bit more about how computers and gadgets help us round the world. They make life easier. From phones to email, social media and Skype, computers let us communicate.

Which one of these words means ‘keeping in touch’?

[ ]	Complete
[ ]	Company
[ ]	Communication
[ ]	Complain

What is the word 'phone' short for?

[ ]	Television
[ ]	Computer
[ ]	Telephone
[ ]	Printer

Sasha talks to his cousin in Canada. Sasha can see and hear his cousin. Which one of these services lets you talk to people and see them at the same time?

[ ]	Text
[ ]	Email
[ ]	Skype
[ ]	Word

What is a text?

[ ]	A long story.
[ ]	A history book.
[ ]	A short message.
[ ]	A very long message.

Luke’s Mum works in a busy office. She sends an email with a file added to it. The file is:

[ ]	A text.
[ ]	An attachment.
[ ]	A reply.
[ ]	A signature.

Luke’s Mum gets a reply to her email. She sends the reply on to her boss. What does she press to send the email on?

[ ]	Forward
[ ]	Delete
[ ]	Attach
[ ]	Scroll

Sam’s older sister uses Facebook to keep in touch with her friends. Facebook is a type of:

[ ]	Word processor
[ ]	Social media
[ ]	Database
[ ]	Spreadsheet

Computers help us to share our work. They help us to work together. Which one of these words means ‘to work together’?

[ ]	Complain
[ ]	Cooperate
[ ]	Argue
[ ]	Fall out

Sasha wants to send an email to his cousin in Canada. What does Sasha need to know?

[ ]	The town his cousin lives in.
[ ]	The street his cousin lives on.
[ ]	How old his cousin is.
[ ]	His cousin’s email address.

10.

Sasha writes an email to his cousin in Canada. How long will it take for the email to get to Canada?

[ ]	Years
[ ]	Months
[ ]	Days
[ ]	Seconds

Computing Quiz - Computers For Communication (Answers)

Which one of these words means ‘keeping in touch’?

[ ]	Complete
[ ]	Company
[x]	Communication
[ ]	Complain

Talking, texting and sharing files are all types of communications

What is the word 'phone' short for?

[ ]	Television
[ ]	Computer
[x]	Telephone
[ ]	Printer

Mobile 'phones are telephones you can carry about

Sasha talks to his cousin in Canada. Sasha can see and hear his cousin. Which one of these services lets you talk to people and see them at the same time?

[ ]	Text
[ ]	Email
[x]	Skype
[ ]	Word

Skype is one brand that lets you do this - there are others

What is a text?

[ ]	A long story.
[ ]	A history book.
[x]	A short message.
[ ]	A very long message.

Twitter is the best-known text service

Luke’s Mum works in a busy office. She sends an email with a file added to it. The file is:

[ ]	A text.
[x]	An attachment.
[ ]	A reply.
[ ]	A signature.

Can you attach a file to an email?

Luke’s Mum gets a reply to her email. She sends the reply on to her boss. What does she press to send the email on?

[x]	Forward
[ ]	Delete
[ ]	Attach
[ ]	Scroll

Can you reply to emails? Can you forward an email to someone else?

Sam’s older sister uses Facebook to keep in touch with her friends. Facebook is a type of:

[ ]	Word processor
[x]	Social media
[ ]	Database
[ ]	Spreadsheet

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are all types of social media

Computers help us to share our work. They help us to work together. Which one of these words means ‘to work together’?

[ ]	Complain
[x]	Cooperate
[ ]	Argue
[ ]	Fall out

Who do you work with at school?

Sasha wants to send an email to his cousin in Canada. What does Sasha need to know?

[ ]	The town his cousin lives in.
[ ]	The street his cousin lives on.
[ ]	How old his cousin is.
[x]	His cousin’s email address.

Sasha can add his cousin’s email address to his address-book

10.

Sasha writes an email to his cousin in Canada. How long will it take for the email to get to Canada?

[ ]	Years
[ ]	Months
[ ]	Days
[x]	Seconds

Emails and messages travel very quickly