English for system administrators - стр. 11
Ivan: «We can try allocating more bandwidth to the critical applications.»
7. Rob: «We need to find a place to ______ our website.»
Brian: «I heard Bluehost is a good option.»
8.Lucas: «We need to ______ the ______ closely.»
Dan: «Yes, any issues can affect all the connected devices.»
7. Read the text from the ex.3 once again and complete the table with the phrases from the text and the additional section:
Additional phrases:
a. That’s clear, thank you.
b. I appreciate your explanation.
c. I need some assistance, please.
d. Could you please clarify…?
e. I think we are not on the same page.
f. Could you do me a favor?
g. I’m terribly sorry but…
8. Fill in the gaps with the missing phrases from ex.7:
Alex – systems engineer
Sergei – service team manager
Sergei: Good morning, _______? (apology)
Alex: Hello, yes.
Sergei: I _____ (ask for help) invite you to an unplanned meeting in 10 minutes time, because you will be engaged in one more project.
Alex: ______ (apology). I don’t have any time for it today.
Sergei: Why? We’re going to discuss an important issue about working at the weekend.
Alex: But today is Monday. You can reschedule the meeting for Thursday or Friday, for instance.
Sergei: ______ (clarification)
Alex: _____ (apology) I need to finish the configuration of 10 servers in few hours time. So I can’t participate in a meeting.
Sergei: _____ (misunderstanding). You can do it right after our call.
Alex: No, it’s my high priority task for now. If I do something wrong, that can lead to crash, or don’t meet a deadline, there will be problems with the client. Are you ready to take these risks?
Sergei: No, I suppose. _____ (appreciation for explanations), so take your time. Maybe I’ll transfer our meeting for tomorrow because this new project is connected with our new customer and we need to start it as soon as possible.
Alex: Ok, _____ (understanding).
Sergei: In this case I’m looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Alex: Deal with it.
9. Read the sentences and choose the functions of grammar tenses in them:
10. Study the rules:
Future Simple and be going to
We use Future Simple:
– to talk about predictions based on our opinion (I think it will be better to upgrade it as soon as possible.);
– to make spontaneous decisions (Ok, we will try to call them.);
– to make promises (I will do everything to prevent a server crash.).
We use be going to:
– to talk about our plans (I am going to do 3 tasks today);
– to talk about predictions based on facts (We noticed some problems with VM’s resources, so we are going to optimize it.).