Activity 1: assembling and disassembling the word “COMPUTER”

Gapfill exercise

Enter your answers in the gaps.
All the missing words are in scrambled order in the box below.
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   burn      compute      hacker      scan      scanner      singer      speak      speaker      stampare      use      verb   

The English word computer comes from the verb to compute.
In the same way the English word printer comes from the verb to print.
A printer is a machine which prints and the is a machine which scans images.
The meaning of the verb to print is , in Italian.
The verb to means scansionare, in Italian.
A person who uses a computer is called user, from the English verb to .
A person who speaks is a , from the English verb to .
A person who sings is a , from the to sing.
And what is the verb from which the English word burner derives? To . Attention! This verb has a special meaning in computer English: it means masterizzare, nothing to do with fire!
And a hacker? Who is a hacker?
He (or she) is a person who illegally breaks into computer systems. The word comes from the verb to hack.
In conclusion we can say that a computer is a machine which computes, and the verb to stands for calcolare, in Italian.
We can also conclude that in English when the suffix "er" is added to a VERB (like in leader, speaker, computer, player, hacker, teacher, browser, manager, etc.), the resulting word has got the following meaning:
a machine which does the action described by the verb, or a person who does the action described by the verb.