Virus! (English Pod 007)

Elementary - Virus! (B0007)

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A: Oh great! This stupid computer froze again! That’s the third time today! Hey Samuel can you come take a look at my PC? It’s acting up again. It must have a virus or something.

B: Just give me a second, I’ll be right up.

B: I ran a virus scan on your computer and it turns out that you have a lot of infected files!

A: But I’m quite careful when I’m browsing the internet, I have no idea how I could have picked up a virus.

B: Well, you have to make sure that your anti-virus software is updated regularly; yours wasn’t up to

date, that’s probably what was causing your problems.

A: Ok. Anything else? 

B: Yeah, try not to kick or hit the computer!

A: Um yeah. . . Sorry about that.

Key Vocabulary

freeze 

Verb, Past Simple

to stop working prop-erly

take a look 

Phrase 

see, revise

act up 

Verb, Present Progressive

not working properly

be right up 

Phrase 

go upstairs soon

pick up 

Verb, Present Perfect

get, acquire

browse 

Verb, Present Progressive

look, search

up to date 

Phrase 

having all the most re-cent information

Supplementary Vocabulary

monitor 

Noun (sin-gular)

computer screen

computer tech 

Noun (sin-gular)

person in a company who fixes computers

corrupt file 

Noun (sin-gular)

damaged or broken computer file that can't be opened

surf the net 

Phrase 

look for information on the internet

web browser 

Noun (sin-gular)

computer program that allows you to go on the internet

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