Language Portfolio (year 10) – Listening 3

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Language Portfolio My Dossier

Listening - 3

Internet Communication - The Net

Communicating is a part of our life; the internet has made it easier. However, “our whole lives are on the Internet”. Who has access to all this information? What we do and say in virtual world can influence our life. Can it really? Getting Started

1. Here is a “computer” challenge for you to solve. Find the words in the following conundrums.

a) mybolss - symbols e) terpucom lystana - computer analist

b) suriv - virus f) eletetummoc - telecommute

c) plopfy kisd - floppy disk g) itityden - identity

d) gudeb - debug a) bercy ristteror - cyber terrorist

2. Now turn to page 186 in the student’s book and do ex 1 and 2. (This vocabulary may be useful!)

Watching the Thrill Now enjoy the film – you will find some excitement and adventure in this story of modern piracy.

Take down some notes about the film by completing the following questionnaire.

Film Title: The Net

Duration : +/- 120 minutes

Type of film: Cyber thriller

Main Character – name: Angela Bennett_______________________

job and employer: _software engineer____________________

personality / characteristics and interests (hobbies and leisure):

She is a very unsocial person who never go out of her home. She work at home and she just have 1 friend. The

others are only online friends.

Other Characters – name: _Jack Devlin______________________________ (important for the plot) job and employer: ____Hacker_______________________

personality / characteristics: He is a very bad person who do everything to win what he

want.

name: Dr. Alan Champion_____________________________ job and employer: ___Psychologist____________________________

personality / characteristics: He is the best friend of Angela Bennett. He is a Medicine

addicted.

Language Portfolio (year 10) – Listening 3

Setting – where the story take place: Mexico_________________________

When the story happens: When Angela Bennett was in her vacancies

Plot (story) – What is the film story? (short summary of the story

Angela Bennett is a computer expert. She never go far from a computer and the only activity she has outside of computers is visiting her mother. A friend, Dale Hessman, sent her a program with a weird glitch for her to de-bug and he was killed in a plane crash. Angela discovers secret information on the disk that she has received when she was in vacancies. Her life then turns into a nightmare and her identity was stolen. She struggles to find out why this has happened and who has it in for her.

Problems brought on by the internet: Hers identity was stolen.

What was this? What does it mean?

1. What did you think about the film? Express your opinion.

Comment / Observation: I liked this film because it speaks about the danger of internet.

2. Digital footprint!? Read and think.

“On the Internet a digital footprint is the word used to describe the trail, traces or "footprints" that people leave online. This is information transmitted online, such as forum registration, e-mails and attachments, uploading videos or digital images and any other form of transmission of information — all of which leaves traces of personal information about yourself available to others online.” (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/digital_footprint.html )

How should you use the Internet?

We have to use the internet with carful without give information to strange persons.