Inglês Acadêmico
Inglês Acadêmico
Inglês Acadêmico
CAMPUS JORDÃO
CURSOS DE BACHARELADO EM ENFERMAGEM E FISIOTERAPIA
Disciplina: Inglês Acadêmico
Prof.: Dr. Emanoel Pedro Martins Gomes
TEXTO 1
How Businesses are Benefiting from Social Networking Sites
Social networking is also useful in a business setting. Through SNS businesses can
create global collaboration, which help them to discuss any problem or concern
virtually and make the best business decision. This is a much better, efficient and
effective way for business to make business decisions rather than physically call
everyone in a conference room on a specific day at a specific time. A business can keep
their employees up to date through social network. For example when a company wants
to introduce new products, they can first demo the product in a virtual world and ask
for feedback from people through social networks sites. The most success come, when
business are able to communicate and get feedback from its customers in each and every
step of its product development for the new experiencing products. This can help
businesses reduce cost in product development as opposed to experiencing the actual
new products market in the real world. Businesses today are competing in the internet
social networking circuit for a chance to make money with sites such as MySpace,
Facebook, and LinkedIn. Billions of dollars are being spent by online companies such
as Yahoo and Google to make money from these SNS. With all this commotion, it’s no
wonder that with the passing of each day, more and more businesses are looking to
make money online. Just take a look that this recent WSJ article by Emily Steel,
Marketers Watch as Friends Interact Online. Doing business on the web is
inexpensive, easy, and accessible to billions of potential customers. Businesses are
paying these social network sites to advertise and search for new clients for their
products through customized search engines, browsing history, conversation history,
viral marketing and other means.
TEXTO 2
Living in the future
Our life in the future will be changed forever by multimedia. The way we live, work,
and play will be totally different from what it is now. Bert C. Roberts Jr. states in an
article that soon we will probably be answering our television and watching our phones.
Our interactive TVs will actually be some combination of television, telephone and
computer trough which we will have access to shopping, movies and other types of
information whenever we want them. Videophones will enable us to communicate
instantly in voice, picture and text with loved ones or business associates anywhere in
the world. We will probably be talking to intelligent devices. At a voice command,
cars will be able guide us to pre-programmed destination such as movies, theaters
and restaurants. And once we arrive at our destination, our cars will even be able to park
themselves. We will use our personal electronic mailboxes to send and receive letters
through our telephone lines – all without paper. The classrooms of the future will
have audio, video and interactive multimedia, and kids will be watching, listening to,
and talking to on-line encyclopedias. Education will be revolutionized by distant
learning – the use of video teleconferencing when the teacher and student are in
different places. Multimedia will make it easier to work at home – to telecommute –
which means less traffic less air pollution. In the new multimedia era, life will be
easier, traffic lighter, the environment a little healthier, and everything more
accessible. Although many of Roberts´ predictions are still likely to happen, some of
them are already a present reality. At the rate technology is evolving nowadays, it is
difficult for the future not to become an instant present the moment it is imagined and
conceived by contemporary scientists.