Friday, May 25, 2007

Computer Lesson

Believe it or not, Moxie was teaching first graders today. I know. Someone let me near their small, easily-influenced children. They were all so...cute. Clean. And smart. That's how I like first graders; and their names were 95% pronounceable. In a totally unrelated a topic, a man is suing his former employer, IBM in a wrongful dismissal case because he was fired for visiting adult chat rooms at work.

In the spirit of teaching, I thought my dear readers could:
1. Review the story which is linked above;
2. Complete the activity below with answers that can be found in the article;
3. Learn the following vocabulary words and phrases and practice them in their everyday speech:
- tool
- excuses
- lame
- hater
- snowball's chance in hell

Activity
This article is about a man who fought in the ______ War. He claims to have suffered from _______-_______ ________ ______ after watching one of his comrades die in action. He worked for ______. That company makes ________.

A coworker ________ on him and his bosses found out that he was looking at ______ on his computer at work. He was fired. He has a _______ who has brought a case against the company. They say that IBM should have treated his condition like they would any employee found to be using ______ or ______.

IBM says the man was told several times to ______ looking at adult sites at work. He says this is not true and he was _____-_______ to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder.

Moxie thinks this is a load of ______. She wants to know what he did before the invention of the interner to treat his disorder. She thinks the coworker who ratted him out is a ______, _____, and _____ ass.

Please complete and submit your answers via the comments section.


1 comment:

Tiffany said...

CYBT
assignment #1

This article is about a man who fought in the __Vietman____ War. He claims to have suffered from __post__-_traumatic__ __stress _syndrome_ after watching one of his comrades die in action. He worked for ___IBM___. That company makes __teleportation and mind-reading devices (just kidding)_.

A coworker ___snitched____ on him and his bosses found out that he was looking at ___ on his computer at work. He was fired. He has a __lawyer_ who has brought a case against the company. They say that IBM should have treated his condition like they would any employee found to be using _drugs__ or __alcohol____.

IBM says the man was told several times to _stop_____ looking at adult sites at work. He says this is not true and he was __self_-_medicating__ to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder.

Moxie thinks this is a load of __crapola____. She wants to know what he did before the invention of the internet to treat his disorder. She thinks the coworker who ratted him out is a __snitch____, _hater_ , and __dumb __ ass.