Thursday, 3-5-2015 (Rainfall)

Hello everyone! You might want to start off today with some typing practice, or some catching up on old projects, or some Side-By-Side. Or try the exercises on thiswebsite: http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/touchstone/student/index.html

Later, I have an Excel project you can do if you want. We haven't worked in Excel for a while, so this seems like a good day to do that. We don't want to forget everything we learned about making charts, do we? Of course not.

1. Conversation. First, have a little conversation with another classmate. Here are the questions:

How do you feel about the rain? Do you love it? Do you like it? Do you think it's okay? Do you hate it?

What month do you think gets the most rainfall San Francisco?

What month do you think gets the least rainfall in San Francisco?

2. Highlight and Copy the following abbreviations for months:

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

3. Open Excel. It's the icon with the green X.

4. Click on cell 1A, then press control + v to paste in the months.

5. For each month, enter a rainfall amounts in column B. I will give you a little piece of paper with this information. Press "Enter "to move down one cell, or use the "down arrow" key.

6. Highlight all your data in both columns.

7. Click "insert", then "column", and choose the first 3-D column chart.

8. Click on your chart and drag on the corner to adjust its size.

9. Save your file to your flash drive.

10. EXTRA: Try other kinds of charts. Or, right-click on an empty part of your chart and choose "Format Chart Area". Experiment with different backgrounds or colors for your chart.