Computer abbreviations

Computer acronyms

Work together to say or guess what the following computer abbreviations stand for:

• ADSL
• Alt (key)
• AI
• AT&T
• ATM
• BASIC
• CD ROM
• CPU
• GPS
• HTML
• ISP
• LAN
• www

Use the words under the fold to help and to start checking.

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All-purpose                  Alternative                   American                                 Area

Artificial            Asymmetric                  Automatic                                Beginner’s

Central             Code                           Compact                                  Digital

Disk                             Global                          Hypertext                                 Instruction

Intelligence                  Internet            Language                                Local

Line                             Machine                       Mark-up                                   Memory

Network                       Only                            Positioning                               Processing

Provider                       Read                           Service                        Subscriber

Symbolic                      System            Telegraph                                 Telephone

Teller                           Unit                             Web                                        Wide

World

Check as a class.

Ask about any words which you don’t understand, are not sure how to pronounce, etc.

Test each other on the vocabulary:

• say the abbreviation and the right full version or the full version with a mistake, and see if your partner can spot if it is wrong or not
• say an abbreviation and the full version with a mistake for your partner to correct
• say a full version and see if your partner can say the abbreviation
• say the abbreviation and see if your partner can say the full version
• say one word of the full version and see if your partner can say the full version and/ or the short version
• say the full version and see if your partner can put the abbreviation of it into a suitable example sentence
• say an abbreviation and see if your partner can put it into a suitable example sentence

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Related pages

Technical English page

Abbreviations page (with link to the acronyms page)