Светлана Алексеевна Губарева

English for system administrators


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«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.).

      11. Put the verbs into the correct future grammar forms:

      1. (our company optimise) the website as we planned?

      2. The overall operation of services reduces the Internet speed, so we _ (expand) the Internet channels.

      3. I think we _ (monitor) the progress of the project closely.

      4. Tomorrow, I _ (have a meeting) with my boss to discuss my KPI.

      5. The CEO _ (not allocate) additional money for IT department.

      6. Ok, so I _ (analyse) the data and present my findings at the meeting.

      7. What _ (you do) if the server crashes?

      8. I (not have) any days-off, because I need to finish my project.

      12. Complete the sentences with Future Simple and be going to:

      a. Maybe I _____ (do) this task tomorrow.

      b. _____ (you conduct) regular checks this week?

      c. I think that she _____ (not help) you with it.

      d. I _____ (collaborate) with the support team on Friday.

      e. Ok, I _____ (try) to fix this issue.

      f. They _____ (implement) security measures, but I’m not sure.

      j. _____ (Mike set up) firewall tomorrow morning?

      13. Look at the diary and complete the text about Chang:

      07/07/2023

      08:00 – wake up (maybe)

      08:50 – check emails

      09:30 – upgrade servers

      12:45 – be praised by the team lead (I think)

      13:00 – have lunch in an office or in a cafe?

      14:00 – work with the development team

      17:00 – take part in a daily meeting

      17:55 – don’t take an umbrella (according to a weather podcast)

      18:00 – go home or go to the gym?

      Chang _____ wake up at 8 o’clock. Chang _____ check emails at 8:50. Chang _____ upgrade servers at 9:30. Chang _____ be praised by the team lead after it. Chang _____ have lunch in an office or in a cafe. At 2 p.m. Chang and the development team _____ work together. Then he _____ take part in a daily meeting. At 5:55 p.m. he _____ take an umbrella. After work he _____ go home or to the gym.

      14. Look at the situation below and make up your own dialogue. Don’t forget to use words and phrases from ex.7:

      Today is 15.05. Max, chief technology officer (CTO), wants to give you a task to migrate services from on-premise server (on-prem.) into the cloud server with saving all data. Deadline – 17.05. You understand that you will not have enough time for it. You need to make a plan on what you are going to do and talk to CTO to prove that you need to have more time.

      Now you know:

      – how to talk about future plans and predictions;

      – words connected with servers;

      – how to apologize, ask for help and clarification, express your understanding and misunderstanding, appreciate for explanations.

      Vocabulary:

      Unit 5. Software

      1. Look at the picture and answer the questions:

      1) Which software do you see in the picture?

      2) What types of software do you know?

      3)