8 | UNITA Convergence in Telecoms and IT SAAR A ETRE SITES | We can use the present continuous to talk about change. ‘Manufocturing costs are falting significantly ‘More and more experts are producing Open source software. ‘We often use one or more comparative adjectives to talk about change. Broadband is getting cheaperand cheaper. Open source software is becoming more and more popular. 8 compiete the sentences with the words in brackets, making any changes that are necessary. Digital radio sets__4°6 becoming (become) less and less popular. In some areas, VoIP (take over) from PSTN. Mobile broadband speeds 1 2. More and more people (listen) to radio over the internet. 3. Laptopsare getting (cheap). 4 Handheld devices are becoming (Sophisticated). 5 Batterylife (get) (ong) 6 7 (increase) dramatically. Emcee Q _Newwords are continually being created in Telecoms and IT. Often these words are made up of two parts. Match the openings in Column A with the correct endings in Column B. See the example. A B New words up. ee space, -crime DOWN. load, -grade, date upload, upgrade, update E -time, -load TELE. -book, -mail, commerce CYBER- -working, -conferencing, coms Now match the openings in Column A with the endings in Column B A B New words hard- ,ad-, spy- -BAND wave-,broad-,narrow- — -BYTE broad-, pod-, news- “CAST smart-, cell-,i-, head- -WARE kilo-, mega-, giga- -PHONE Can you think of any other words with these openings and endings?