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HOMEWORK

POST READING IDEAS

1. GAP-FILL: Check the answers to the gap-fill exercise.

2. QUESTIONS: Ask the discussion questions you thought of above to your partner / group / class. Pool the questions for all students to share.

3. VOCABULARY: G o over the vocabulary you circled above.

4. STUDENT-GENERATED SURVEY: Pairs/Groups write down 3 questions based on the article. Conduct their surveys alone. Report back to partners to compare answers. Report to other groups / the whole class.

5. ‘BANK’ / ‘ROBBERY’: Make questions based on your findings from pre-reading activity №1.

6. DISCUSSION:

a. What was interesting in this article?

b. Were you surprised by anything in this article?

c. Do you trust banks?

d. Why did you join the bank you use?

e. Do you ever ask banking staff about the bank’s security?

f. Do you trust online banking?

g. Do you use a credit card for Internet shopping?

h. Do you use a credit card for normal shopping (in real stores)?

i. Is your credit card information safer over a secure Internet connection from Amazon.com, or a telephone modem connection from Joe’s bookstore?

j. Are your passwords / PIN numbers easy to guess?

k. Do you ever forget your passwords / PIN numbers?

l. What kind of confidential information do you give out over the Internet?

m. Do you always complete the fields for address, telephone number, marital status etc?

n. Is cash safer than electronic money (e-money)?

o. Are you worried about cyber crime?

p. Are hackers smarter than IT security experts?

q. Should banks make us choose more / longer passwords?

r. Did you like this discussion?

s. Teacher / Student additional questions.

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find information on computer hacking. Share your findings with your class next lesson.

3. DETECTIVE: Imagine you are the detective in Tel Aviv. Write down ten questions you want to ask the gang member about the foiled robbery attempt. Use these questions in a role play next class.

4. CASH OR E-MONEY?: Write down five pros and five cons for having a society based on cash, and one that only uses e-money.

TRUE / FALSE:

a. Internet thieves stole millions of dollars from a bank. F

b. Bank robbers planned to send the money to different countries by air mail. F

c. Hackers used software to record the order in which computer keys were pressed. T

d. One member of the gang was thought to be an insider at the bank. T

e. A public relations officer from the bank said a lot of money was stolen. F

f. The bank’s IT people guessed something was happening last October. T

g. No one has been arrested yet in connection with the robbery. F

h. Cyber criminals are becoming more and more skilled. T

SYNONYM MATCH:

(a)	prevented	foiled
(b)	steal	rob
(c)	sequence	order
(d)	confidential	top secret
(e)	installed	set up
(f)	branch	office
(g)	suspected	guessed
(h)	unit	group
(i)	questioning	interrogating
(j)	cyber	Internet

PHRASE MATCH:

(a)	Police have	prevented a huge online bank robbery
(b)	taking	place over the Internet
(c)	different bank accounts	around the world
(d)	confidential	information
(e)	One member of the gang	supposedly worked at Sumitomo
(f)	public	relations officer
(g)	no money	had been stolen
(h)	suspected they were under	attack
(i)	arrested a man in connection	with the planned robbery
(j)	take	extra care

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