The Internet. Week -1

Outline
Reading (Unit 6, pp. 46-53)
Listening (Starlink)

Warm-up activity
Compare the data.
What changes have you noticed?

What is the difference between the Internet and the web?

Warm-up activity
How many phrases or compound nouns can you make with the word web?
Website
Web page
Web mail
web address
Web server
Web design
Web browser
Webcam
Web log (‘blog’)
Web technologies
etc.

Group work
Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Answers for 6.1
Answers 6.1

Use Padlet or chat to post your paraphrased paragraph

Read the text and complete the summary with the words from A
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Discussion:
What is Web 3.0? What features does it have?
Below are 5 main features that can help us define Web 3.0:
Semantic Web
The next evolution of the Web involves the Semantic Web. The semantic web improves web technologies in order to generate, share and connect content through search and analysis based on the ability to understand the meaning of words, rather than on keywords or numbers.
Artificial Intelligence
Combining this capability with natural language processing, in Web 3.0, computers can understand information like humans in order to provide faster and more relevant results. They become more intelligent to satisfy the needs of users.
3D Graphics
The three dimensional design is being used extensively in websites and services in Web 3.0. Museum guides, computer games, ecommerce, geospatial contexts, etc. are all examples that use 3D graphics.
Connectivity
With Web 3.0, information is more connected thanks to semantic metadata. As a result, the user experience evolves to another level of connectivity that leverages all the available information.
Ubiquity
Content is accessible by multiple applications, every device is connected to the web, the services can be used everywhere.

Source
Fitzgerald, P., McCullagh, M., and Tabor, C. (2012). English for ICT Studies in Higher Education Studies. Reading: Garnet Publishing Ltd. ​

The Internet
Week -1
English for Academic purposes

Lesson objectives

Warm up
Is the access to the internet a human right or a privilege?
Write three reasons to justify your answer.
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Group discussion
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC

Starlink
What do you know about Elon Musk’s Starlink project?

Pre-listening:
Match the words below with the definitions
consisting of or using thin flexible fibres with a glass core through which light signals can be sent with very little loss of strength.
money that a company receives, especially from selling goods or services
to broadcast something, or to send out or carry signals or messages
broken or torn pieces of something larger
a high-capacity transmission technique using a wide range of frequencies, which enables a large number of messages to be communicated simultaneously.
the time it takes for a data packet to travel from the sender to the receiver and back to the sender
an assemblage, collection, or group of usually related persons, qualities, or things
a. fibre-optic b. revenue c. transmit d. debris e. broadband f. latency g. constellation

Fill in the gaps using the words from the previous slide.
The Global Positioning System consists of a ________ of around 30 satellites orbiting 20,000 kilometers above Earth.
The most common types of Internet _______ connections are cable modems (which use the same connection as cable TV) and DSL modems (which use your existing phone line).
Most space _______ comprises human-generated objects, such as pieces of space craft, parts of rockets, satellites that are no longer working, or explosions of objects in orbit flying around in space at high speeds.
Bluetooth chips allow mobile phone users to ________ data over short distances to other mobile phones.
It said that the installation of ______ cables would be too expensive in remote areas.
Long delays that occur in high-_______ networks create bottlenecks in communication.
The sport doesn’t generate much _____ from ticket sales.
1. Constellation 2 broadband 3. debris 4. transmit 5. fibre-optic 6. latency 7. revenue

Watch the first part of the video and complete the table about the project.
For instructors: Pause the video at 1:47.
12,000
Country: North America Date: 2020
42,000
global connectivity (something that would benefit
people in rural areas or in places
where current internet service is too
expensive or unreliable)
30 to 50 billion dollars

Watch the second part of the video and complete the following tasks. Start the video from 1:47
1. Using fiber optic cables is the fastest way to transmit large amounts of information over long distance.
True False
2. Sending information through space helps to cut latency time.
True False
3. SpaceX satellites will have to stay over one spot to send data.
True False
4. What points SpaceX will have to address before launching the project?
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2.
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False: because light has to travel through the
medium of glass, it doesn’t reach the same
top speed it does in a vacuum-like in space.
True.
False: SpaceX plans on putting its satellites
much closer to home, operating at 550 kilometers up.
At this altitude they can't stay over one spot—
they have to move faster to stay in orbit.
1. satellites will have to be cheap and reliable enough to justify launching thousands
2. satellites need working autonomous collision avoidance to keep from smashing into other satellites and causing a runaway debris problem
3. SpaceX should ensure that satellites sending so many radio waves will not interfere with ground-based optical and radio observations

In pairs, read the sentences from the video and come up with the definitions of the words in bold. Do not use dictionaries.
The billionaire behind companies like Tesla and SpaceX is known for his audacious plans, and in October of 2019 he took them one step further,when SpaceX sought permission to launch 30,000 satellites into orbit.
If you were to head over to SpaceX’s Starlink website, you’d see that their main selling point is global connectivity: something that would benefit people in rural areas or in places where current internet serviceis too expensive or unreliable. And that’s all commendable, since it'd be great if everyone around the globe had access to the internet.
It aims high and promises huge returns, and it’s not without its skeptics and dissenters.
Even if the speed information is sent around the world speeds up, a slow wifi router can still bottleneck your system.

Work in groups of 4. Each group should explain and discuss the impact of digital divide from one of the following perspectives:
You must use the following 4 words in your speech: audacious, commendable, bottleneck, a dissenter

Lesson reflection