US College Students Return to Campus

US College Students
Return to Campus 

I Lead-in.

a)     When does academic year begin in schools, colleges, and universities in your country?

b)     What do students do when academic year begins?

c)     How will academic year 2020 be different for students?

II Vocabulary focus. Match the words to their definitions. Use five words in your sentences.

1.	campus	A.	an important problem
2.	president	B.	second-year university student
3.	to go	C.	a place to live in
4.	freshman	D.	head of university administration
5.	sophomore	E.	land and buildings of a college or a university
6.	precaution	F.	the act of stopping someone from going to school
7.	issue	G.	to take things to a new house
8.	to move in	H.	food in a package or container that people take away from a restaurant
9.	suspension	I.	an action to prevent something dangerous from happening
10.	mandatory	J.	the act of stopping something from happening
11.	application	K.	first-year student at university
12.	prevention	L.	a formal request to do something
13.	dwelling	M.	necessary by rule or law

III Watch the video and match the speakers to the phase they said. One speaker said two phrases.

1.    a student

2.    student’s father

3.    student’s mother

4.    president of the University of Notre Dame

A. I don't want my son sick; I don't want him getting anyone else sick.

B. I made a mistake.

C. After quarantine I’m so excited to be in a new environment. I was home for four months.

D. Not really, because I believe that everything's been kind of addressed here at Tech.

E.   We'll continue to test them. It's critical that we monitor their health, everybody's health.

IV Watch the video and fill in the gaps with the words from the list. There are some words you don’t need to use.

tests; sophomores; safe; sickness; months; prevention; relate; virtual; distancing; breaking; rooms; students; campuses; masked; isolate; issues; tested; health; necessary

From the University of Kentucky to Tulsa’s Oral Roberts University to Troy University in Alabama starting this week it's move-in day at dozens of college 1) _____ nationwide.

-        After quarantine I’m so excited to be in a new environment. I was home for four  2)  _____.

At Georgia Tech a staggered return,  3) _____reconfigured for more single dwelling options and a new app where students can sign up for meal times or order to go.

-         Any concerns as you drop them off?

-        Not really, because I believe that everything's been kind of addressed here at Tech.

At Duke University students are greeted with Covid 4) _____. This fall only freshmen and 5) _____will be housed on campus. This is a difficult but a 6) _____decision. And at Notre Dame [1] where classes start Monday the school's president says all students will be 7)  _____before returning.

- We'll continue to test them. It's critical that we monitor their 8) _____, everybody's health.

But even with precautions there are some 9) issues. At Iowa State University 66 students tested positive for Covid during move-in. The school has set aside space on campus to 10) _____them. And at Syracuse a group of students placed on interim suspension for 11)  _____the school's mandatory quarantine.  

As students return to campus some are already raising concern. So far socially 12) _____seems not great.

     Rising junior[2] Miguel Hoch is so worried about contracting Covid, he's taking a leave of absence, his 13) _____learning application denied.

-        I don't want my son sick; I don't want him getting anyone else sick.

 Even Notre Dame’s president is facing some criticism after posing for this picture with students, 14) _____but not distanced. He later apologized.

- I made a mistake.

Officials say despite their best efforts at 15) _____, there are measures in place should Covid come to campus.

 We're going to do everything possible to keep them 16) _____. And what we're telling them also, tell your sons and daughters to act responsibly. College campuses are coming back to life as 17) _____prepare to face a new reality.

V  Watch the video and mark the sentences as True (T) or False (F). Correct the false statements.

1.    The video shows British universities.  

2.    Some students are so excited to be in a new environment after four weeks of quarantine.  

3.    Georgia Tech University reconfigured rooms so that students would have single dwelling options.  

4.    At Georgia Tech University there is a new app where students can sign up for cleaning or order rooms.  

5.    At Duke University students are greeted with Covid tests.  

6.    At Duke University only freshmen will be housed on campus.  

7.    At Notre Dame  only freshmen will be tested.  

8.    At Iowa State University 66 students who tested positive for Covid during move-in would not study this year; they went home.  

9.    At Syracuse a group of students broke the school's mandatory quarantine.   

10.Socially distancing on campus is great.  

11.Some students are worried about contracting Covid and are taking a leave of absence.

12.Notre Dame’s president is facing some criticism after posing for the picture without his face mask.    

13.College campuses are coming back to life for the new academic year.  

VI OVER TO YOU. Discuss what new rules colleges and universities in your country have this academic year. Are the rules similar to the measures US colleges take? What solutions in the video did you like? Which solutions could you use in your country?   

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[1] University of Notre Dame is a private Catholic university in Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

[2]  rising junior is a student who finished his or her sophomore year in the spring and will be starting the junior year in the fall.

Twitter hack: Obama, Bezos and Kanye targeted

Twitter hack: Obama, Bezos and Kanye targeted 

I Lead-in.

1 Is a social networking service Twitter popular in your country? Do you use it?

2 What people have a lot of followers in Twitter? Do you follow any famous people on Twitter?

3 What kind of information do people post on Twitter?

II Vocabulary focus. Match the words to their definitions. Use five words in your sentences.

1.	a tweet	A.	difficult
2.	high-profile	B.	extremely large
3.	to double	C.	size of something
4.	donation	D.	trying to influence something without right or invitation
5.	bitcoin	E.	to aim an attack at a certain person
6.	a hack	F.	a post on social media platform Twitter
7.	enormous	G.	designed to harm and damage other people
8.	scale	H.	attracting a lot of attention and interest
9.	celebrity	I.	to give control
10.	to target	J.	to become two times bigger
11.	to lure	K.	part of company’s capital
12.	to hand over	L.	powerful effect
13.	meddling	M.	not real
14.	tough	N.	an act of getting into someone else’s computer system without permission
15.	employee	O.	sum of money people give to charity
16.	malicious	P.	a famous person
17.	fake	Q.	to trick someone into doing something
18.	impact	R.	a type of digital currency
19.	share	S.	a person who works for a company

III Vocabulary focus. Follow the link below. Study the words and  word combinations using flashcards, check your understanding, practise their  spelling. Write the words using definitions, check your knowledge in the test. Play matching vocabulary game (match words to their translations to make cards disappear)  and save the planet from asteroids by typing in correct words.

  

IV Watch the video and fill in the gaps with the words from the list. There are some words you don’t need to use.

attack; thousand; deleted; scale; terrible; high-profile; profits; money; richest; terror; president; candidate; social media; financial; malicious; understanding; systems; tough; delay; dollars; followers; celebrities; fake

The tweets appeared in the name of some of the most 1) ______ and powerful figures in the world: from hundreds of accounts, to tens of millions of 2) ______, and all containing the same message. From the account of former 3)______ Barack Obama an apparent offer to double any donation of a thousand 4) ______ sent in Bitcoin. In the words of the tweet: “to give back to the community”. This was the work of a hack on an enormous 5) ______.

 The accounts of 6) ______ like Kim Kardashian were also targeted in an apparent attempt to lure their followers into nothing more than handing over 7)______. The corporate accounts of tech giants like Apple were also hit, and even some of the world's 8) ______ figures like the Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Most of the tweets were quickly 9) ______ as Twitter began an investigation, but experts say it's possibly the most significant hack that any 10) ______   ______ platform has seen.

The targeting of largely Democrat politicians, like presidential 11) ______ Joe Biden, has raised the spectre of the sort of meddling that plagued the 2016 U.S election. Biden’s campaign has asked Twitter for answers. The network's founder Jack Dorsey tweeted: “It was a 12) ______ day for us at Twitter. We all feel 13) ______ this happened. We’re diagnosing and we'll share everything we can when we have a more complete 14) ______ of exactly what happened”.

          The company described the hack as a coordinated social engineering 15) ______ by people who successfully targeted some of its employees with access to 16) ______ and tools. They say there could have been other 17) ______ activity too. It hardly inspired confidence though, that having deleted the 18) ______ tweet from billionaire Elon Musk it reappeared not once but twice. Twitter’s already felt the 19) ______ impact of the crisis in its share price.

The hackers though are counting the 20) ______. Hundreds of people did pay up having seen these tweets to the tune of more than a hundred 21) ______ dollars.

V  Watch the video again and mark the sentences as True (T) or False (F). Correct the false statements.

1.    The tweets that appeared in the name of some of the most powerful figures contained different messages about bank accounts.  

2.    Hackers offered to double any donation of a thousand dollars sent in Bitcoin.  

3.    The accounts of celebrities like Kim Kardashian were targeted in an attempt to access followers’ personal information.  

4.    Bill Gates quickly deleted tweets from famous people’s accounts and Microsoft began an investigation.  

5.    This attack is the first example of hack on social media platforms.  

6.    Jack Dorsey tweeted that the company would diagnose the problem and share their understanding.  

7.    Jack Dorsey said that the company had complete understanding of exactly what happened.  

8.    The hack was a coordinated social engineering attack.  

9.    Hackers targeted some of Twitter’s employees with access to systems and tools.  

10.Fake tweet from billionaire Elon Musk was deleted, but it reappeared not once but ten times.  

11.Twitter’s already seen the financial impact of the crisis.   

12.The hackers though are disappointed because they lost money.

13.No one paid the hackers having seen the tweets.  

VI OVER TO YOU. Discuss the types of hacker attacks that used social media in the past. What social media were used? What users were targeted (celebrities, politicians, companies)? What did hackers want people to do (to pay money, to buy a product)? How did the hackers plan their attack? How can users protect themselves from such attacks?