MODUL PERKULIAHAN

English for
Computer 2
Modul 1
Intermediate English for
Computer Students
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Abstract Competency
This lesson is talking about Students are able to read and answer
Convergence in IT and things of the the questions about the change in
latest mobile devices can replace. computer and devices.
The change of the use of computer
is changed rapidly and the students
learn about tutorial technologies
and the grammar is present
continues.
Modul Standardize
Background

Standardize Meeting 1 English for 2Computer

1. All students are able to read and write properly
2. All students are able to answer the questions
3. All students should do all the exercises given,
4. Ask the lecturer if you don’t understand

Study Systems

In Modul 1 English for Computer 2 we divide the lesson into:

1. Warm-up, students should follow the warm-up before going through the lesson, and
after all you can be able to read and answer properly.
2. You ONLY do what the lecturer asks you to do.
3. If you don’t understand, please ask me the questions and I am happy to answer all the
questions you ask.

1. Warm-up
 Warm-up is used to get you into the lesson. Just follow the instruction.
 The content is the lesson. And it is about reading and writing, together with the
grammar and the discussion.
 Discussion will be discussed between you and the lecturer.
 Bibliography:
 McCarthy, Tom. R. English for Telecoms and Information Technology,
Oxford University Press, 2013
 Esteras, Santiago Remacha, Infotech, English for Computer Users.
Cambridge University Press, 20018
 Jones, Leo, Alexander, Richard. New International Business English
Teacher's Book. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
 Betty Schrampfer Azar, Basic English Grammar, 2nd edition, Longman &
Pearson, 2001.
 Tappe, Tonya and Tullis, Graham. Intermmediate Business English, 5th
edition, Longman & Pearson, 2009
 Betty Schrampfer Azar, Understanding And Using English Grammar, 2nd
edition, 1993, Binarupa Aksara.
 Lin, Lougheed, Business Essentials B1, 2013, Oxford University Press.

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 2. Content
The content of the modul 1 is about Talking about Convergence for computer. In
modul 1, students will learn how to read and write well about the application of
computer in order to give the explanation about the change of computer
The competency of modul 1 is to get all the students understand better and students
are able to read and write everything about convergence in computer. All of the
grammar and vocabulary are talking about convergence in computer

3. Closing
Since the purpose of module 1 English for Computer 2 is about the change of the
use in computer, so at the end, student will have the competency in vocabulary,
reading and language skills are about meeting people, tutorial technology, grammar
in present continues and getting them to have test and exam at the mid test and final
test.

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Unit 1 Convergence in IT
STARTER Work with a partner. Make a list of all the things some of the latest mobile
devices can replace. Look at the screen of the device below for ideas.

What does the idea for this mobile?

How long does each new mobile release?
Are you going to change your phone to Apple?

CONVERGENCE IN TECHNOLOGY
1. Read the blog post below and underline the questions it asks.

BlogofBlogs.com

MIKE ROCKS EYE ON BUSINESS

CONVERGENCE IN TECHNOLOGY
Blof of Blogs.com Author Home Blog Bio Published Wroks Media Reviews Events
1. Read the blog post below and underline the questions it asks.

Responding to Convergences
by: Mike Rock

Convergence is creating new businesses and forcing existing businesses to adapt quickly or die. We
are seeing the convergence of telecommunications, IT & Media; the convergence of fixed & mobile
services and convergence at device level. All of these trends are creating new markets and making
other equipment, products, services and even whole companies rapidly obsolete. For technology
manufactures or service providers, deciding which markets to base your future on becomes a
challenge with serious consequences. Should BT or AT&T provide home TV servicers to replace their
declining telephony revenues? Should Kodak integrate a mobile phone into its cameras or just give
up?

Does Microsoft still need to sell boxed software when you can download applications onto a smart
phone? Does everyone have to have a mobile offering or have no future? When the communication
of voice is just another software application what do equipment manufacturers like Nortel or
Alcatel-Lucent do? Google just does search, right? Collisions within the telecoms, IT and media
sectors are occurring now on a daily basis. Like any busy crossroads, there are going to be near
misses and head-on crashes. As ever, the survivors will be the companies that understand their
customers, and are agile enough to quickly respond to all this change.

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Discuss the questions with your partner.
2. Write a comment in response to this blog post.
3. Complete the table below with the names of the companies that provided you with
the different services in the past and in the present. Then try to predict which
company might provide the services in the future.

Fixed phone Mobile phone Internet TV

Seven years
ago
Now
In seven years

When you have finished, compare your answers with your partner.
TECH TUTORIAL
3 G, 4 G Open Source
New generations of mobile phone Software that is made available to
standards, allowing mobile network developers and users, licensed to
operators to offer advanced services. encourage re-use without charge.
Ethernet SaaS = Software as a Service
A very high bandwidth data networking
technology used by companies in LANs
and increasingly WANs.
GSM = Global System for mobile Wi-Fi
communications. A technology providing wireless
A worldwide standard for mobile phones transmission of data over a short range
making phones from one operator (for example, in a house or office)
compatible with a different operator in
another country.
MPLS = Multi- Protocol Label Switching. Wi-Max
A data networking protocol and service that A technology providing wireless
can carry different kinds of traffic-voice, transmission of high speed data over a
data, video etc. large are (for example, a city)

4. Read the magazine article about trends in Telecoms and IT. Match the industry
leader to their area of expertise.
1. Peter Wilson a. software
2. Jenny Lane b. telecoms
3. Sanjay Ravi c. hardware

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STATE OF PLAY
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we invited industry leaders to share their thoughts about
the changing world of Telecoms and IT. To find out what they think, read on….

Peter Wilson service such as MPL and Ethernet

The world is now plugged in, have spread all over the world,
and countries are connected allowing companies to manage
up using a mixture of and communicate with their
terrestrial networks, operations wherever they may
undersea cables, satellite be.
and micro-wave A reason for this has been the fall in
communications, bandwidth costs, and broadband
Wi-Max and Wi-Fi, GSM and is getting cheaper and cheaper.
3G. The move from packet- Services can now deliver tens or
based services to the even hundreds of megabits of
internet protocol means bandwidth into individual homes
everyone expects to for much less money than a
communicate voice, data 64Kb line that a whole factory
and video from anywhere to might have used to run its
anywhere, globally. The operation only a few years ago.
availability of wide area data
Jenny Lane There has been a significant
In 1965 Gordon Moore stated that decrease in the size and
the number of transistors on a power consumption of
chip would double about every hardware and finally
two years. And that has more or manufacturing costs are
less remained true since then. falling significantly. The result
As we write, a single chip can is that there are more and
hold about 1 billion transistors more powerful computers in
each making 3 billion binary our livers, and even handheld
calculations per second. devices can store gigabytes
TAhere has been a huge increase of data holding thousands of
in the volume of data and data MP3 music files or hundreds
storage capacity required for of films.
this; secondly,
Sanjay Ravi have seen the impact of off
The internet is changing the way shoring and the rise of India
we access, buy and use as the world center of
applications. We go online and software development and
download the software we want application management. We
onto our computer, like any are also seeing some of the
other digital product. smartest applications and
Increasingly we don’t even have services coming out of
the software on our hardware, people’s bedrooms; more
but visit an internet site and use and more experts are
that application as a service. producing Open source
The use of this Software as a software, which is becoming

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 Service (SaaS) model means more and more popular,
that we may not need such creating a real threat to the
powerful computers in the big corporations.
future. We

5. Read the text again. Say if the following statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F)
according to the text.

According to Peter Wilson:

1. Most countries are connected up with undersea cables. ೦
2. Many countries have unreliable mobile phone networks. ೦
3. Recently bandwidth costs have risen dramatically. ೦
According to Jenny Lane:
4. Moore’s predictions have been fairly accurate. ೦
5. A typical chip can now hold 3 billion transistors. ೦
6. Both data storage capacity and power consumption have gone up. ೦
According to Sanjay Ravi:
7. Fewer people are going to computer stores to buy software. ೦
8. SaaS will require ordinary users to have more powerful computers. ೦
9. Software development needs the support of a big corporation to succeed. ೦

6. Match the words on the left with the words on the right to make pairs of words that
often go together. The word on the left must go with all three words in the set.
See the example.
1. access a. chip, wafer, valley
2. download b. an application, a network, an account
3. go c. online, offline, on holiday
4. mobile d. phone, telephony, broadband
5. silicon e. a file, an image, a demo version

7. Complete the sentences using pairs of words from exercise 6. Make any changes that are
necessary.
1. Everyone has _____________, so payphones are becoming redundant.
2. Many internet entrepreneurs from ___________ in California are now turning their
attention to alternative forms of energy.
3. Before you buy the program, you can ____________ just to see how you like it.
4. With a mobile broadband connection, you can _____________ any time an anywhere.
5. Internet banking allows users to ____________ an check their balances.
6. How many transistors can you fit onto a __________________?

OUTPUT
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 Read the newsfeeds about Telecoms and IT and answer the questions below

Nokia Laptops?
In another example of convergence, Nokia is considering a move into the PC market. Unlike
netbook and notebook specialists Acer, who unveiled a new smart phone at the Mobile World
Congress, Nokia is going in the other direction.
________________________________

Lower and lower

India has announced plans to produce an educations laptop, the ‘Sakshat’, which will allow
millions of schoolchildren to have access to the internet. The machine will sell for just $20, but
will come with wireless connectivity and 2GB of RAM.
________________________________

Cloud ahead
In a new move into of cloud computing, Google has announced plans for the Google drive or
Gdrive. Instead of storing information on PCs or laptops, users will be able to store data and
applications on Google servers and access them over the internet.
________________________________

Is Skype now the biggest Telecoms company in the world?

According to TeleGeography, Skype handled 33 billion cross border minutes in 2008, up 41%,
against an industry increase of just 12%. Skype now accounts for 8% of the international voice.
Other VoIP providers make up a further 23% of the international market.

One billion downloads in nine months

Apple announced that 13-year-old Conor Mulcahey downloaded the billionth app from the
iTune store. Apps use the technology of the iPhone like the Multi-Touch interface, the
accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio. Most other operators and
manufacturers are trying to enter this popular market.
________________________________

Adobe Flash on TV
Adobe has secured a deal to put Flash software onto the chips most commonly used inside
TV sets and set top boxes. The move should facilitate the creation of web-based content on
TV screens. The move further develops the increasing convergence of TV and PC/internet in
the home with users likely to use their TVs for internet searches and increasing consumption
of online media content.
________________________________

Alcatel-Lucent posts eighth loss in a row

Alcatel-lucent, the world’s third largest telecoms equipment manufacturer, reported its eighth
straight quarterly loss. The €3.89bn loss was said to reflect the drastic deterioration of the
global outlook and the change in strategy.

According to the newsfeeds:

1. Where are Nokia and Acer already competing?

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 2. How much will the Sakshat cost?
3. How will users access the Gdrive?
4. What is the total VoIP market share for international voice?
5. How long has it taken Apple to generate one billion downloads?
6. For how many months in a row has Alcatel-Lucent made a loss?

OVER TO YOU

 Do you know of any developments to the stories in the news feeds?

 What are the latest examples of technology companies converging that you
have noticed?
 What sorts of companies do you think will be the big winners and losers in a
converged future?

TALKING ABOUT CHANGE

We can use the present continues to talk about change.

Manufacturing costs are falling significantly.
More and more experts are producing Open source software.

8. Grammar in use for Unit 1.

PRESENT CONTINUES TENSE

Present continues tense is used when the speaker talk to explain the present time. It means
that activity is going on.
Present continues formula:

Subject + be (am,are, is) + Verb + ing

He + is + sleeping

I am
Statements You/They/We are Sleeping.
He/She/It is
Am I
Questions Are you/we/they sleeping?
Is he/she/it
I am not
Negative Statements You/We/They are not Sleeping.
He/she/it is not
Short Answer Yes, I am
Yes, you/we/they are
Yes, he/she/it is
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 No, I am not
No, he/she/it is not
No, you/we/they are not

The use of tense Present Continues; that an activity is going on. Some of the words are
used to show the activity is going on such as now, at the moment, right now, at the
present, recently.

When do we use the Present Continues Tense

1. When we declare an event is happening before our eyes . We see immediately what
happened
2. When we imagine something. For example, what is being done by our friends at this
time when we are not with them. This should be answered by imagining what he/she
might be doing at the moment.
3. If an event or situation that will occur in the future . For this case , there is usually a
description of the time used .

For example: I am having a dinner party tonight.

He is going to Jakarta tomorrow.
We are leaving next week.

C. NON ACTION PRESENT CONTINUES

1. There are some verbs in the present continues MUST use present tense . This verb
is called with a non - action verb .
2. Verbs are related to sense: feel, hear, notice , see , smell , sound , taste .
3. Verb associated with mental state : agree , believe , Consider , doubt , guess ,
hesitate , imagine , know , mean , need , prefer , Realize , Recognize , remember ,
suppose , think , trust , understand , want , wish .
4. Verb associated with emotional states such as : admire , appreciate , care , dislike ,
envy , expect , fear , hate , hope , like , love , mind , regret , trust .
5. Verb related to possession: possess, have , own , belong to .
6. Verb related to situation: Appear, Be , Contain , cost, depend, equal, exclude, exist,
hold, include, indicate, look, need, owe, require, resemble, seem, tend , weigh .
7. The verbs which related to common sense: feel, hear, notice, see, smell, sound,
taste.
8. The verbs which are related to mental situation: agree, believe, consider, doubt,
guess, hesitate, imagine, know, mean, need, prefer, realize, recognize, remember,
suppose, think, trust, understand, want, wish.

He has a son . He is having a serious operation at the

moment.
She looks happy . They are looking at the book
She is careful He is being careful

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What a difference He is careful and He is being careful?
He is careful means that naturally, he is careful person. While, he is being careful means
that at this time he is being cautious. Actually, he is not careful person. So, we need to
remember that not all verbs can be used in the present tense continues.

EXERCISE:

I. Complete the sentences by using The Present Tense.

1. The sun _____________________ (rise) in the East.

2. She _____________________ (prepare) breakfast every morning.
3. They never ____________________ (wash) the dishes.
4. We always _____________________ (stay) at home on Sundays.
5. Rudy always __________________________ (get) to his office on time.
6. I ________________________ (like) to watch TV.
7. You never __________________________ (trust) me.
8. My friend never ________________________ (help) me.
9. My parents always _____________________ (call) me.
10. She and I never ______________________ (go) there.

II. Complete the story by using the correct verbs of The Present Tense.

Everyday John (1) ____________________ (goes) to his office. He always (2)

_______________ (take) the bus to his office and (3) _______________________ (spend)
an hour on it. He really (4) _____________________ (like) his job because it (5)
_________________ (pay) well. He is never late. In the office, John and his colleagues
always (6) ____________________ (speak) to one another politely. That is why they (7)
__________________ (have) a very close relationship. All his colleagues (8)
__________________ (like) him. Everybody (9) ____________________ (enjoy) working
there. John (10) ___________________ (finish) work at 5.00pm. He (11)
____________________ (get) home at 6.00pm. His wife always (12) __________________
(open) the door for him and (13) ____________________(give) him a kiss. They (14)
______________________ (love) each other very much. They (15)
_________________________ (have) a daughter. After dinner they usually (16)
__________________ (watch) TV together. John (17) __________________ (have) a
happy family.

III. Present Continues Tense

1. I ___________ still________________ (have) breakfast.
2. Look! The lift ___________________________ (come).
3. I ___________________________ (go) home now.
4. He _____________________ (look for) a permanent job.
5. We _________________________ (not, wait for) anybody.

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6. I _____________________ (not, do) anything right now.
7. Who ___________________ you __________________ (call), please?
8. What _________________ you ___________________ (look for)?
9. Where ______________ you ____________________ (go)?
10. The students _______________________ (feel) kind of sick now.

IV. Complete the sentences by using The Present Tense or The Present Continues
Tense.
1. You _____________________ (be) silly.
2. He _____________________ (hate) meat and never eats any.
3. Please be silent! I ______________________ (concentrate).
4. Why ____________________ you _______________ (laugh) _______ I ________ (be)
funny?
5. He never _______________________ (appreciate) my help.
6. Everybody ____________________________ (know) that five and five are ten.
7. You ________________________ (tell) me what to do.
8. The bell _________________________ (ring). Please open the door.
9. It ____________________ (cost) too much.
10. “Who _________________ this book __________________ (belong) to?”
“It ________________________ (belong) to me”.
11. It ________________________ (seem) that you are right.
12. She ________________________ (prefer) chicken to beef.
13. How is the weather now? It __________________________ (rain).
14. I ________________________ (leave) now. I will be there in five minutes.
15. He _____________________ (get) home about five o’clock.

Bibliography

 McCarthy, Tom. R. English for Telecoms and Information Technology,

Oxford University Press, 2013
 Esteras, Santiago Remacha, Infotech, English for Computer Users.
Cambridge University Press, 20018
 Jones, Leo, Alexander, Richard. New International Business English Teacher's Book.
Cambridge University Press, 1996.
 Betty Schrampfer Azar, Basic  Lin, Lougheed, Business Essentials
English Grammar, 2nd edition, B1, 2013, Oxford University Press.
Longman & Pearson, 2001.
 Tappe, Tonya and Tullis, Graham.
Intermmediate Business English, 5th
edition, Longman & Pearson, 2009
 Betty Schrampfer Azar,
Understanding And Using English
Grammar, 2nd edition, 1993,
Binarupa Aksara.

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