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Monitor





                               A monitor of the computer looks like a Television.                                           FAMILIARITY WITH COMPUTER PARTS

















                                                      On/Off button

                                      Monitor                                             Television

                   It shows what the computer is doing for us.                                                           23

                   We can watch movies, cartoons, photos and read stories on the monitor.
                    The monitor has an ON/OFF button. Pressing this button once switches

                     the monitor ON, and pressing it again will switch the monitor OFF.



                                         The  front  portion  of  the  monitor  is  called  the  Screen
                         Fun
                         Fact!            of the monitor.

                                        The monitor is also called the Visual Display Unit (VDU).



                  Keyboard





                                You must have seen a calculator. A calculator has
                                a keypad with many keys on it and each key has

                                a different function. Like the calculator’s

                                keypad, a computer also has a keyboard with
                                many keys on it.





                   The small buttons on the keyboard are called keys.

                   Each key has a letter, a number or a symbol written on it.
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