cyber crime key.pdf

Teacher’s Notes: e-lesson for week commencing 22 January 2007

Worksheet and Teacher’s Notes by Pete Sharma

Cyber-crime

Level

Intermediate and above

Tasks

Discussing what to do with a spam e-mail

Defining a set of words connected with Internet crime

Reading an article on cyber-crime

Identifying words in the text from their definitions

Ranking different cyber-crimes in order of their seriousness

Deciding on suitable penalties for various cyber-crimes

How to use the lesson

1 Hand out the worksheet and find out what students would do if they received this e-mail. Most people say ‘never

reply to spam’. Find out what other kinds of e-mails students have received. How many unwanted e-mails do they

get each day? You may also wish to discuss international viruses such as ‘the love bug’ or the ‘Mydoom’ worm.

2 Ask students to check that they know the meaning of the words in the box.

3 Ask students to scan the article and highlight the words in exercise 2.

Answers

Paragraph 1: fraudsters / fraudulent / scam

Paragraph 2: spam (x3) / (financial) scam

Paragraph 3: spyware (x3)

Paragraph 4: adware / spyware / spam

4 Students read the text again and discuss their reactions with a partner. For example, have they heard about

‘phishing’? Does it exist in their country?

5 Ask students to find words in the text from the definitions .

Answers

(a) siphon off (b) logo (c) gambling (d) fake (e) audit

6 Ask students to work in small groups and rank the crimes in order of their seriousness. They then agree on a

suitable penalty for each crime. You may choose to list suggestions on the board, e.g. a caution, community

service, prison sentence etc.

Related websites

Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Crime

http://www.nhtcu.org/

http://www.clearswift.com/

This page has been downloaded from www.businessenglishonline.net.

It is photocopiable, but all copies must be complete pages.