Unit 8

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Unit 8

• Communications (II)

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Part I Warming Up

• A. An advertisement for cellular phones

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Cellular phone
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Vocabulary

• lumberyard ???
• two-by-four mini TV
• off-the-shelf ??? ?????????
• bargain-basement very cheap, usu.. of poor
  quality
• adapter a thing that makes or bomes suitable for
  new needs, different conditions, etc.

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Phil Depalma's Cellular Mobile Communications

• ??Depalma???? an authorized Cellular One agent
• Cellular One a brand of cellular phone

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Instructions

• You are going to hear an advertisement for cell
  phones. Listen and take notes. Then you will hear
  statements and you are required to decide whether
  they are true or false. Pay special attention to
  the prices of the cell phone being advertised,
  the contact telephone number.

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Key to Ex.

• 1.      It is difficult to find a place to buy a
  cellular phone today in the United States. (F)
• Every place is selling them.
• 2.      Phil DePalma Doesnt sell TV sets. (T)
• 3.      Phils sale price for the cellular phone
  is about 30 dollars. (T)

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• 4.      Phil usually sells cellular phones for
  about 50 dollars. (F)
• About 80 The price of 29.99 is a savings of
  50 off Phils everyday price.
• 5.      If you buy the phone now at Phil
  DePalmas, youll also get a free cigarette light
  adapter. (T)
• 6.      The telephone number for Phil DePalma is
  1-800-695-4500 (F)
• Its 1-800-695-5400

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B.

• Key words video telephone software voice-dial
  tag realtime transactions integrte
  communicator

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Vocabulary

• high-resolution ???? ????
• pixel the smallest unit of an image on a
  computer screen ??
• kilobit (???)???
• keypad ??
• prompt a word or words spoken in prompting an
  actor
• opt-in / opt-out to choose to do / not to do
  something or take part in something

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• dashboard the instrument board in a
  car????????????????
• tracking ball ??? (?????????????????)

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• Internet Answering Machine (IAM) The Internet
  Answering Machine (IAM) is a software download
  for Windows-based PCs which captures incoming
  phone calls which may otherwise be missed while
  the user is online. The software presents a small
  on-screen window that appears each time the user
  goes online, and allows them to see and hear
  messages left for them while online.

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Personal Digital Assistant (PAD)

• PDA (personal digital assistant) is a term for
  any small mobile hand-held device that provides
  computing and information storage and retrieval
  capabilities for personal or business use, often
  for keeping schedule calendars and address book
  information handy. The term handheld is a
  synonym. Many people use the name of one of the
  popular PDA products as a generic term. These
  include Hewlett-Packard's Palmtop and 3Com's
  PalmPilot.

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• Most PDAs have a small keyboard. Some PDAs have
  an electronically sensitive pad on which
  handwritng can be received. Apple's Newton, which
  has been withdrawn from the market, was the first
  widely-sold PDA that accepted handwriting.
  Typical uses include schedule and address book
  storage and retrieval and note-entering. However,
  many applications have been written for PDAs.
  Increasingly, PDAs are combined with telephones
  and paging systems.
• Some PDAs offer a variation of the Microsoft
  Windows operating system called Windows CE. Other
  products have their own or another operating
  system.

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• Instructions You are going to hear the
  information of some latest products in the
  communications industry. Listen carefully and
  then complete the description of the special
  feature of each device.

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Key to Ex.

• 1.      Siemens video telephone
• a tiny camera color display 64
• 2.      Callwaves IAM
• on the Internet using the same telephone line
• 3.      Philips Genie
• uttering a single word
• 4.      Ericssons iPulse
• promises realtime messaging with family, friends
  and colleagues

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• 5.      Palm VII
• booking cinema tickets or making online stock
  trades
• 6.      Motorolas iRadio
• music and personalized Internet services
• 7.      Nokias 9110
• pnone and personal digital assistant
• 8.      Nokias 7100
• a large screen a tracking ball
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Part II Experience with telephones

• A.     Key words cellular phones amenity
  protective eye

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Vocabulary

• amenity something intended to make life more
  pleasant or comfortable for people
• preteen children under 13
• gizmo ???
• hologram ???????
• envision to imagine expect????
• sleek attractively neat in appearance, and
  without unnecessary decoration???
• flip to send something spinning often into the
  air by striking with a light quick blow ??

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Instructions

• You are going to hear a passage about the
  popularity of cellular phones among teenagers.
  Listen carefully and then complete the following
  outline

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Key

• OULINE
• I. Estimated popularity of cellular phones among
  teenagers
• A.  5 of teenagers owing a cellular phone
• B. 28 of parents with teenagers planning to buy
  a cell phone for their child within a year.

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• II. Different answers to the question of why this
  new teen accessory is needed
• A. Parents an expansion of their protective eye
• B. Teenagers a gift of freedom

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• III. Impact of cellular phones on teenager habits
• A.     Spending more time on the phone
• B.     Being out of the house more often
• C.     Staying out of the house more often

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• IV.              Price and calling plans
• A.     Price between 90 and 250
• B.     Calling plans
• 1.      Typical 30 for 300 minutes
• 2.      Prepaid calling cards 25, 50 or 75
• 3.      Family calling plan 50 a month for two
  lines of service and 200 minutes, and free calls
  between family members.

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B. Key words

• annoying solution sales call

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Vocabulary

• Miracle Flakes for Kids probably the name of a
  company

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Call Block

• also know as Call Screen in California and
  Nevada, lets you block some designated numbers,
  so you can avoid the calls you don't want.
  Sometimes you wish you hadn't picked up your
  ringing telephone. Maybe it was a telemarketer
  calling during your dinner, or maybe a
  telemarketer calling before you are even out of
  bed. Call Block is designed to help you avoid
  these unwanted telephone calls.

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• Customers can choose the Call Block service and
  block up to 10 designated local telephone
  numbers. Call Block allows you to block these
  telephone numbers even if you don't know the
  source of the call. When someone calls you from
  one of the numbers blocked by Call Block, they
  will hear an announcement that says you are not
  currently taking calls.

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Call Trace

• Helps stop threatening, obscene or harassing
  calls. Call Trace will automatically trace and
  record a caller's phone number at the Quest Call
  Identification Center. It helps to protect you
  and your privacy.

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Anonymous Call Rejection (ACR)

• is a service that rejects incoming calls from
  anonymous callers. Anonymous Call Rejection will
  automatically stop all incoming calls from
  callers who have their numbers blocked
• Callers with blocked numbers will hear a message
  stating that the party they are calling does not
  accept anonymous calls.
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Identa Ring Service

• is a service you get with which you can
  distinguish who is receiving a call when the
  telephone rings. For a monthly charge, you may
  have as many as four distinctive rings, for four
  different telephone numbers, all of which are
  connected to one telephone line. Individual names
  and phone numbers may be listed in the telephone
  directory, or may remain unlisted at the
  customer's request.Identa Ring is a service
  mark of Bell Atlantic
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Instructions

• You are going to hear someone telling you his
  annoying experience with telephones. Listen
  carefully and then answer the following questions

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Key

• 1. What is the most annoying thing according to
  Mr. Rooney?
• People always call to make a sale when he is busy
  doing something else.

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• 2. What is his suggestion to deal with the sales
  calls?
• Every time someone calls to sell something, the
  telphone company will automatically break in with
  its own announcement Mr Rooney has one-dollar
  charge for a sales call. If you wish to accept
  this charge, press star. If you dont wish to
  pay, please hang up.
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Part Three The Future of the Phone

• Pre-listening discussion
• 1. What do you think the phone will be like in
  the future?

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Key words

• multi-functional new era revolution images

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Vocabulary

• converge (of two or more things) to come
  together towards the same point??
• slot a long straight narrow opening or hollow
  place, esp. in a machine or tool. ???
• intercom a system by which one can talk through
  a machine to someone in a near place????????
• prism a transparent three-sided block, usu. Made
  of glass, that breads up white light into
  different colors. ??

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Subscriber Identification Module (SIM)

• a removable plastic card found in GSM phones
  that stores pertinent information about a phone
  such as your phone number, account information,
  phone book, PIM data, etc.. The card can be
  plugged into any GSM compatible phone and the
  phone is instantly personalized to the user. SIMs
  come in two sizes large (credit card size) and
  small (thumbnail size). ???????

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Deutsche Bank

• Deutsche Bank is one of the leading
  international financial service providers. With
  69,300 employees, the bank serves more than 13
  million customers in 76 countries worldwide more
  than half of the bank's staff work outside
  Germany. Its home market is Europe.

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 British Tele-com

• The largest telecommunications provider in the
  UK.

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Ipswich

• A borough of eastern England near the North Sea
  northeast of London. It was a commercial and
  pottery-making center from the 7th to the 12th
  century and was later (16th century) important in
  the woolen trade. Population 114,806.

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Instructions

• You are going to hear a report about the future
  of the phone. Listen carefully and then complete
  the following outline..

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Key

• OUTLINE
• I. The new era of personal communicationsa
  multi-functional communicator
• Main feature capable of transmitting and
  receiving sound, video, images, data and text

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• II.  The functions of phones in the future
• A.  Talking
• B.  Sending and receiving emails
• C.  Taking part in video conferences anytime,
  anywhere
• D.   Absorbing many of the key functions of the
  desktop computer
• E.  New personalized services
• 1.  Trading stocks
• 2.  Gambling
• 3.  Shopping
• 4.  Buying theater and airline tickets

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• III.  Telecommunications revolution
• A.  Developing mole banking services
• B.  Receiving all forms of electronic
  communication through a single device
• C. Receiving incoming TV images and other
  messages while on the move
• D. Mobile videophones overtaking TV as the major
  source of visual information