1_ICT (1)

Plan
New words
Text “Mobile phones”
Practice
Dialogue “Phone etiquette”

syntactic analysis in case
Information and Communication Technologies are always in progress. They connect all people through computer and mobile devices. People, who have grown up with computers, are called the digital generation.

Read the words

Mobile phones
Mobile phones, or cellular phones, are devices that enable communication to all types of telephones while moving over a wide area called the coverage area.
The term "cellular" comes from the fact that the phone calls are made through base stations, communication towers or antennas, which divide the coverage area into cells. As you move from cell to cell, the calls are transferred to different base stations belonging to the same or a different telephone company. This capability of mobile phones is called roaming. The phone is said to be out of range when it cannot communicate with a base station.

A brief history
• 1G, First Generation phones started in the 1980s when Motorola introduced the first hand-held phones. They used analogue technology and the main drawback was the small number of channels that could be used at a time.
• In the 1990s, 2G mobiles introduced digital transmission methods that converted voice into binary information, increasing the number of channels, the speed of transmission between the phone and the base station and enabling a reduction in size. The most common standard, GSM, Global System for Mobile communications, started to be used at this stage. One of the features of this technology is the use of SIM cards, a type of smart card that contains the user's information, the connection data and the phonebook. It also enables the user to change service provider without changing the handset.
• 3G phones offer a high-speed data transfer capability. Some of these phones are called smart phones and combine PDA capabilities with the usual functions of a digital phone. The new communication standard, UMTS, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, enables the multimedia transmissions that are becoming common nowadays.
• New standards are being developed that will open the way to new 4G phones with an
emphasis on multimedia, real-time television and radio.

Ex. 1. Read sentences and decide if they are True or False.
Mobile phones, or cellular phones, need a network of towers or antennas to transmit calls.
In a cellular system, a city is divided into smaller sections, where the base stations usually occupy a central position.
Roaming is the ability to use another telephone company.
1G phones had a slower transmission speed than 2G.
2G phones introduced analogue technology.
GSM started to be used in the 80s.
Smart phones can be used for other purposes, e.g. as a personal digital assistant.
UMTS, the standard used in 3G phones, has made multimedia transmissions common nowadays.

*Одинаковые цифры, стоящие рядом, объединяются словом double (кроме цифр кода страны)
Phone numbers
Nowadays mobiles have become an essential part of our lives and there are many uses for them. But the main use is still phone calls.
Let's look at phone numbers. What parts do they consist of?
Английский номер:
plus four four [пауза] one eight six five [пауза] three five six seven six seven [пауза] extention number is four two six oh.
Российский номер:
plus seven [пауза] nine eight seven [пауза] double five oh [пауза] double four one three.

Ex.2. Read correctly

Phone etiquette
At the beginning of the conversation, you need to say hello, specify the place you are calling and introduce yourself:
Then ask to put someone on the phone:
When your interlocutor answers the phone, he says …
If your interlocutor is absent, you will be answered… and asked to leave a message with the phrase…
To clarify whether a person is ready to receive a message, they ask…
If you do not know how to spell the interlocutor's name correctly, you can clarify it by asking…so that they spell the name.
At the end of the conversation, you need to thank a person by saying… to what you will receive an answer…
At the end of the conversation, you need to say…

Dialogue

Ex. 3. Fill in the missing phrases in the phone conversation.