DESCRIBING TECHNICAL PROCESS PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH IN USE FOR ICT

 

PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH IN USE FOR ICT 39.DESCRIBING TECHNICAL PROCESS

 

A A technical process: how VoIP works With VoIP, Voice  over Internet Protocol, your is digitized and then broken into small data packets. VoIP calls can also be delivered via an IP telephone with an Internet connection. When describing a technical process, we often use the present simple passive, e.g. is digitized/ are converted/ is set up, to explain how something is made or used. The agent is not as important  as the process. Compare these sentences:   B The use of the passive The passive is often used to describe areas of computing. Look at these examples C Sequencing a process The use of time and sequence connectors means we can show the different stages of a process. EXERCISES 39.1 Complete the sentences with verbs from A and B opposite. 1. In order for your voice to travel over the Net as email does, it must be ________ from an analogue to a digital signal, i.e. it must be  ________, and then broken into small envelopes of data called Internet Protocol packets. Voice communication that is  ________ in this way is what’s known as Voice over IP. 39.2 Solve the clues and complete the puzzle with verbs from A and B opposite. Across 1. It has been ____, i.e. laid out according to the user’s specifications or needs. 2. The web page will be ____ to the server, where it will be published. 8. Different peripherals can be ____ up to a PC. 9. More data is ____ on a DVD than on a CD. 39.3 Rearrange the paragraphs in the text below by referring to the connectors in C opposite. a. Then a pure silicon crystal is cut into thin wafers, which are covered with two other layers of protective materials. b. First engineers design the construction plans for the chip.

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