INTERNET TOOLS AND

SKILLS
PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH II

JUDIT SARAI SARMIENTO PÁRRAGA

8th WEEK – SECOND UNIIT
LESSON 8
 PURPOSE

 To get involved in technician vocabulary through a text to

explain with our own words what we understood.
El primer encuentro
Es trascendental
 DISCUSSION
• In groups of three or four students discuss the following questions:

• What’s internet?
• Why is it important nowadays?
• Do you consider you could not live with internet in your daily life? Why?
 What s internet?
• terms is a network of the interlinked computer networking worldwide,
which is accessible to the general public. These interconnected computers
work by transmitting data through a special type of packet switching which
is known as the IP or the internet protocol.
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• Internet is such a huge network of several different interlinked networks
relating to the business, government, academic, and even smaller
domestic networks, therefore internet is known as the network of all the
other networks. These networks enable the internet to be used for various
important functions which include the several means of communications
like the file transfer, the online chat and even the sharing of the documents
and web sites on the WWW, or the World Wide Web.
 ADVANTAGES
 With the introduction of the internet the global • Pornography is widespread over the internet
communication has become a matter of just the
finger tips of the users.
 The internet has brought about the various
different, innovative communication means like the
emailing, chatting, and the voice conversation
system over the internet.
 It made the communication easy but also the daily
lives interactions following the business of people
living on the other sides of the world.
 Also the umpteen resources that we can get on
anything at all over the net and also the
entertainment via the games, websites, and media
access which was never so easy before.
DISADVANTAGES
making it inappropriate to be used by the children
below certain age so as to prevent the
psychological damage from the early days. These
sites are easily accessible and attractive for the
teenagers and young kids.
• The security over the internet cannot be
guaranteed due to the major hacking techniques
and theories.
• The interaction between the two strangers can lead
to friendship and then serious cases of murders
and serial killers plots.
 Internet tools
• Have you ever used any of these internet tools? How do you use them?
Disuss with your partners about them:

 Fifi Ping
 Icestorm NSLookup
 Dig DNS Check
 logic Host Check
Role of Internet in the modern era

• The internet has changed the face of the lives of people,

turning them completely into the modern and latest
lifestyle with its developments. Today, instead of the
newspapers, the people use the internet to access the e-
news which provides with not only the news papers
completely but also various different news channels from
all over the world. Even the live video news from the
news channels can be accessed through the net,
overpowering the other media, even including the
television.
 Internet in education
• Internet is not only an access to websites, these days there is knowledge
and information on every aspect of the educational world over the internet.
The resources provided on various web pages are indeed very informative
and useful for professionals and students related to every field of work.

• Internet has also provided the opportunity to study online.

 Effect of Internet on our daily lives
• The maximum effect of the internet is actually
on the daily life of the individuals because
indeed there is no aspect of life which is not
influenced by the internet and its uses.
• The most interesting aspect of the internet
influencing our daily lives is the factor of
entertainment. Entertainment no longer
demands your money or expense, today you
can just log on the internet in your free time
and get involved talking to people of similar
interests, or watch movies or play games, its all
there in the internet.
 INTERNET SKILLS
• What characteristics do you think
each one of this levels consider?
What kind of user do you think you
are?
 Beginning Users
 Intermediate Users
 Proficient User
If you don’t have many ideas about
what these different levels of user do,
read the complete text and solve the
activities