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UNIT ONE
Cloud Provider
Cloud Computing
storage services to others, usually for a
fee.
Google Apps
In Unit one, you learn how to
Google's SaaS offering that includes an
o Use Simple Present Tense, office productivity suite, email, and
Direct and Indirect Questions. document sharing, as well as Gmail,
o Use There is / are, Direct and Google Talk for instant messaging,
Indirect Questions. Google Calendar and Google Docs,
o Use adjectives to describe. spreadsheets, and presentations.
o Use time expressions for the
SPEAKING.
present.
Think about other useful terms you
know or do research to learn some
LESSON A more and practice them.
Glossary. PRESENTATION
Cloud Operating System 1.- Read and Listen.
A system specifically planned to run in a
supplier's datacenter and be provided to
the customer over the Internet or another
network.
Cloud Migration
Public Cloud
based on how the internet is described in 4.- Write sentences about Cloud
computer network diagrams; which Computing in Present Tense using the
means it is an abstraction hiding the verbs given in exercise 3.
complex infrastructure of the internet. It is
1. _________________________________
a style of computing in which IT-related
capabilities are provided as a service,] _________________________________
allowing users to access technology-
2. _________________________________
enabled services from the Internet ("in
the cloud") without knowledge of, or _________________________________
control over the technologies behind
3. _________________________________
these servers.
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Cloud computing is a general concept
that utilizes software as a service (SaaS), 4. _________________________________
such as Web 2.0 and other technology
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trends, all of which depend on the
Internet for satisfying users' needs. For 5. _________________________________
example, Google Apps provides common
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business applications online that are
accessed from a web browser, while the 6. _________________________________
software and data are stored on the
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Internet servers.
7. _________________________________
2.- Rewrite the verbs in the text in
Present Tense, add some more and _________________________________
write R for the regular verbs and I 8. _________________________________
for the irregular ones.
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DESCRIBE R
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5.- SIMPLE PRESENT.
__________ __ __________ __
It shows an action in the present which is
__________ __ __________ __ not finished. Some examples are:
Examples:
4.- Can you say what cloud computing 2.- How are computation and storage
is? provided?
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3.- What is powered by grids? and
what do they have?
5.- Do you have any idea about what the _________________________________
word CLOUD is? _________________________________
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_________________________________ 4.- How can Cloud computing be
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6.- Can you give your own definition for _________________________________
Cloud Computing? _________________________________
_________________________________ 5.- Do you remember what the word
_________________________________ which is usually confused with Cloud
_________________________________ Computing is?
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8.- Read the text and answer the _________________________________
questions in full. _________________________________
Comparisons 6.- How are computation and storage
provided?
Cloud computing is often confused with
grid computing (a form of distributed _________________________________
computing whereby a "super and virtual _________________________________
computer" is composed of a cluster of _________________________________
networked, loosely-coupled computers,
working together to perform very large 7.- What is powered by grids? And
tasks), utility computing (the packaging of what do they have?
computing resources, such as
computation and storage are provided as _________________________________
a measured service that have to be paid _________________________________
similar to a traditional public utility such _________________________________
as electricity) and autonomic computing 8.- How can Cloud computing be
(computer systems capable of self- seen?
management).
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Many cloud computing deployments are _________________________________
powered by grids, have autonomic _________________________________
characteristics and are billed like utilities, _________________________________
but cloud computing can be seen as a _________________________________
natural next step from the grid-utility ________________________________
model. Some successful cloud
architectures have little or no centralized
infrastructure or billing systems at all
including peer-to-peer networks like
Skype.
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BY PROFESSOR ALEXIS FUENTEALBA LOPEZ
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SIN
G. THERE IS THERE ISNT IS THERE A
3.- Speaking.
A/AN A/AN. /AN?
There are some Pros and Cons of
PL.
THERE ARE THERE ARE ARE THERE
cloud computing. Can you explain
SOME NOT ANY. ANY? each one of them?
THERE ARENT
ANY. Pros
THERE ARE .- No responsibility of creation, maintenance of
NO systems.
The word there has two central uses.
___________________________.
You use it in front of a verb such as be,
or you use it as an adverb when referring .- Easy implementation and economical.
to a place. ___________________________.
Come into my new office. I will spend .- Universal standardization required which
most of my time there. makes interoperability among providers
difficult as of now.
NOTE:
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Don't use 'to' in front of there.
.- Dependent on service providers even for
Don't say: 'I like going to there'. trivial applications.
ic ___________________________
al _________________________________ ________________________________________
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ful _________________________________ ________________________________________
ic _________________________________ ____ 4.- Conversely, safety consideration
ive _________________________________ can be substantively unlike for facilities.
LESSON D
1.- DEFINITION.
TIME EXPRESSIONS.
Days of the week are always capitalized. b) Cloud computing always is easy to
When an action frequently done, add access
's'. 3- a) Old computers seldom work with new
applications
Mondays, Tuesdays, etc.
b) Seldom old computers work with new
The Weekend applications
British English: at the weekends ( when in 4- a) New applications usually make our
work easier.
general ) OR at weekends .
b) New applications make our work easier
American English: on the weekends usually.
( when in general ) OR on weekends.
5- a) One can hardly ever enter to
Times of the Day YOUTUBE with no advertisings.
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