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Getting Internet Service
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M: Hello English learners! Welcome to EnglishPod! My name is Marco.
C: And my name is Catherine and today we’re talking about something very, very
important in the computer age.
M: Internet.
C: Internet and internet connections.
M: Right, I think, well, so many people use the internet now and have it, but it’s sometimes
a little bit complicated to maybe get a plan or maybe if you’re not too familiar with the
terms. Um, that’s what we’re gonna be looking at today.
C: So listen out for some of these words; today we’re… we’re talking on a phone with
someone who’s going to help us get a plan. [When] we come back, we’re talking all about
what some of these words and phrases mean, so if you’re confused, just wait a couple of
seconds and we’ll be back.
DIALOGUE, FIRST TIME
M: Alright, so interesting, uh, a lot of these technical terms specifically for internet and
computers and connection and all that stuff.
C: Yeah, and the nice thing about some of these words, uh, is that they can be used in
other ways as well, so…
M: Uhu.
C: We’re learning about these and, uh, expanding our vocabularies, but they’re useful on
many other, uh, contexts as well.
M: Okay, so let’s get started with, uh, these words now in “language takeaway”.
Voice: Language takeaway.
C: So this first phrase, for example, is something that you see advertised all the time and
it’s, uh… well, it’s a kind of internet connection.
M: Uhu, broadband internet.
C: Okay, so internet is pretty clear, but broadband you might be asking what the heck
can this mean?
M: Okay, so you have broad.
C: So broad means wide.
M: Wide, aha, and a band is basically kind of like a frequency that… at which something
works.
C: Like bandwidth.
M: Bandwidth, aha. So you have broadband, you have fast or high-speed internet.
C: That means the bigger the space is, the more information can be transferred, so it’s… it’s
a fast connection, essentially.

M: Exactly. Uh, before broadband we had dialup…
C: Ooh.
M: Interent.
C: Tih, tih, tih, tih, tih, tih, teeet, teeet.
M: Yeah. Hehe.
C: Remember AOL?
M: Yeah, exactly, so you had to…
C: Hehe. It was so slow.
M: You had to use you modem and call, uh, a number and then get connected by… by
telephone, so it was a dialup connection, but it was so slow.
C: And every time it broke, the connection would… would break, you had to dial up again
and go the whole process, it’s so annoying.
M: Exactly, so, uh, fortunately now not many people use dialup anymore and we have
broadband internet. Uh, now if you have broadband internet, it’s really convenient, because
you can downloadany type of application or music, videos, et cetera.
C: Right, so this is another key computer word that actually has a couple of different uses.
M: Uhu.
C: For example, as you sad you can download music…
M: Right.
C: Or download photos. That means you find a photo on the internet that you like and you
could save it on your computer.
M: Uhu.
C: Uh, but you can also have a download, so it could be a thing too.
M: Okay, so if maybe you’re downloading three different files, you have three downloads.
C: Okay, so to download and [a] download.
M: Uhu, very good. So now with internet you have different speeds, as we talked about,
right? How fast you’re downloading something and the guy mentioned five hundred and
twelve (512) kbps.
C: Oh, no… not ???
one of these kbps, so these mean… actually, this is pretty simple. You
can think about kilobytes. You’ve heard about megabytes, kilobytes. This is a… this is a size.
M: Uhu, tha… how fast you can receive these packets of information, uh, so five hundred
and twelve kilobytes per second.
C: Per second, that’s… I have no idea how much that is. It’s maybe a lot. It sounds like a
lot.

M: Right, well, basically, i… it is a lot, but we saw later that he was asking for a connection
speed of two megabytes.
C: Ooh, so mega is bigger than kbps, right?
M: Right.
C: Alright, so, uh, these are different speeds of transferring information, right? So, this is a
way for you to see what kind of, uh, internet plan you want.
M: Exactly, and, uh, so we have kilobytes, we have megabytes, and basically you want a
faster connection speed, because you want to avoid lag.
C: Ooh, lag, alright. Uh, this is a word that you can use in a lot of different ways. For
example, uh, my brother always lags behind.
M: Uhu.
C: Okay, so it’s a… it’s a verb, but in this case we ??? with a noun, so lag is slowness,
it’s ???.
M: Yeah, it’s like a delay.
C: Yeah, it’s a delay in… in something, so in this case I can’t even play my video games,
cause there’s too much lag.
M: Uhu.
C: So that means the internet is too slow.
M: Too slow, exactly. So that’s what happens when you have a slow connection speed, you
have lag. And as you can say, it refers to something that’s slow or delayed, so you can use
it in other contexts when you want to say something is a little bit slow.
C: Hm, well, and another key thing here, as we’re talking about, uh, internet connections, is
the router. So router is something that helps us to, um, rout an internet connection, so,
ah, for example…
M: It’s… so it basically distributes the internet connection to different computers or to
different users.
C: And some of these you plug in and some them are wireless.
M: Uhu.
C: That means without a wire. So wireless router is something like a little box in your
house that allows you to maybe have three or four computers on one broadband
connection.
M: Right, so it’s very popular now, you go to Starbucks and you havewifi. Uh, in order to
have wifi or wireless internet you need a router, a wireless router.
C: Okay, so wireless router. And finally what is something that mightget in the way of a
connection?
M: You have a firewall – very important security measure when navigating the internet.
C: Right, so a personal firewall is a firewall that you have on your computer to keep people
from spying on you; this keeps other people out.

M: Uhu. So it’s exactly that. It’s a wall between your… between your computer and the
outside world, so it protects you from any type of maybe malicious intruders.
C: Right, and oftentimes governments and, um, public offices, things like that, law… law
offices, they have firewalls to protect the information that they store, because it’s so
important.
M: Exactly.
C: That is secretive.
M: Yeah, so firewalls. There’re many different types of firewalls, but a personal firewall is
just a basic one.
C: Great, so that is our language takeaway for today. Let’s, uh, check out this dialogue
again and slow it down a bit this time.
DIALOGUE, SECOND TIME (slow)
M: Alright, great, so we just heard all of these, uh, words that we looked at before, uh, but
now why don’t we take a look at some of these phrases, ah, in “fluency builder”?
Voice: Fluency builder.
C: What’s this first one? I can’t read, uh…
M: I have no idea.
C: Wh… didn’t you write it down? Marco.
M: Hehe. I have no idea what you’re talking about.
C: Hehe. Alright, and I’m kidding, so I have no idea, this is a… this is… well, it’s gonna
treat this is a phrase that gets, uh, said that as is.
M: Uhu.
C: We’re not gonna take bits and pieces of it, uh, so “I have no idea” or “he has no idea” is
a way of saying, Listen…
M: I don’t know.
C: I don’t know; I really don’t know.
M: Right, the guy was talking about kbps and all these things and… and the other guy was
like “I have no idea what you’re talking about; I don’t understand”.
C: And I can… I can definitely empathize.
M: You can relate.
C: Yeah. Well, we leave that for another one.
M: Hehe.
C: Uh, but after this we’ve got, uh, bucks, aright, so bucks. What… is this slang?
M: Bucks, a hundred bucks, two hundred bucks.

C: A lot of money.
M: Right, so bucks is basically another way of saying dollars.
C: Alright, so this is a way for… well, this is a way that most Americans talk about money.
M: Uhu.
C: It’s, uh, one buck is one US dollar.
M: Uhu.
C: Alright, so, uh, can I borrow ten bucks, Marco?
M: Right. Oh, yeah, sure, here you go.
C: Cool.
M: Now, bucks, you can only use it for American currency, right? You can’t use it for like
Euros or…
C: No, no, no.
M: You can’t say like ten Euros would be ten bucks.
C: No, no, no, no. Usually you say this about American dollars and you say this, uh, just
when you’re hanging out or “how much does this cost? ” Oh, five bucks.
M: Uhu.
C: Yeah, but…
M: Very good. So the guy was telling him about, uh, the price of the internet and everything
and he said that he’s gonna throw in a pen drive, right?
C: He’s gonna throw it? What is this…
M: He’s gonna throw it at him. No he’s gonna…
C: Hehe.
M: Throw in a pen drive for free.
C: Oh, sweet, so throw in means to, uh… to add.
M: Or include.
C: Include, so…
M: Uhu.
C: Um, listen, sir, here?6?