Trump Wants to Ban TikTok in the U.S.

Trump Wants to Ban TikTok in the U.S.

I Lead-in.

1.    Do people use social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) in your country? What social media are popular in your country?

2.    What type of information or content do people post on those social media?

3.    Are there any social media that people are not allowed to use (by law, by the government)? Why cannot people use some social media?

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

1.	juggernaut	A.	the safety of a nation against threats such as terrorism, war, or espionage
2.	to threaten	B.	powerful effect
3.	to ban	C.	to create a problem for something to stop its normal work
4.	trendsetter	D.	to say officially that people must not use or do something
5.	to earn a living	E.	to tell someone that something unpleasant will happen to them if they don’t do what other person wants them to do
6.	to monetize	F.	to vote (in election for a country’s government or president)
7.	to implement	G.	someone or something that starts a  new fashion
8.	national security	H.	a large powerful organization that cannot be stopped
9.	to disrupt	I.	to receive money for work and use it to get food, clothing
10.	impact	J.	to start using a plan
11.	to go to the polls	K.	to make money from something

III Vocabulary focus. Follow the link below. Study the words and  word combinations using flashcards, check your understanding, practise their  spelling. 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.

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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.

vote; danced; activity; living; national security; questions; friendly; Prime minister; President; action; problem; polls; artists; author; users; authority; domestic; connect;  banning

Tonight social media juggernaut TikTok is in danger after the 1) ______ threatens to shut it down. President Trump’s telling reporters on Air Force One: “As far as TikTok is concerned, we're 2) ______ it from the United States” setting 3) ______ ______ concerns with the Chinese-owned company. A source directly familiar with the talks confirms to NBC news that a deal to sell TikTok's U.S. operations to a 4) ______ business, most likely Microsoft, is on President Trump's desk.

TikTok has awkwardly 5) ______ its way into becoming a cultural trendsetter with more than 800 million worldwide 6) ______, 100 million in the US alone.

-        TikTok's gone. TikTok's never coming back… I’m gonna miss it, I’m gonna miss you, guys…

 Overnight TikTokers are reacting including big stars who earned a 7) ______ from monetizing the platform. TikTok’s responding: “We're not planning on going anywhere.  TikTok is a home for creators and 8) ______ to express themselves, their ideas,  and 9) ______ with people across different backgrounds”.

Congress first raised concerns about security on the platform last fall.

-        The devil's not going to come in a scary costume, it's going to come in a very 10) ______ danceable costume and so, you know, I think we should be concerned.”

The President has the 11) ______ to implement a ban when it comes to questions of national security, but there are 12) ______ on how it would work. He certainly can disrupt it, but there are better solutions to fixing this 13) ______. And he can do it for now, but we'll see how long that that will last. But the threat of a ban is already having a real impact online especially for the millions of young TikTokers heading to the 14) ______ for the first time.

-        It has really fired up young people even just overnight I’ve heard so many young people tell me “I’m going to 15) ______ in this election”.

Young voices are now determined to take 16) ______ in November.

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

1.    The President of the USA threatens to create his own TikTok channel.  

2.    President Trump told the reporters that he wants to ban TikTok from the United States.  

3.    The USA had national security concerns with TikTok because it was the EU-owned company.  

4.    There is a plan to sell TikTok's U.S. operations to a domestic business, most likely Microsoft.  

5.    TikTok is a cultural trendsetter.  

6.    TikTok has 100 million worldwide users.  

7.    A TikTok user in the video thinks that TikTok is coming to more countries.  

8.    Some people earn money from TikTok.  

9.    TikTok stars are ready to stop using  the platform.  

10.TikTok is a home for politicians and scientists to express their ideas.  

11.Congress had concerns about security on the platform in the past.   

12.The President has no authority to implement a ban on social media when it comes to questions of national security.  

13.No one knows how President’s ban on social media like TikTok would work.  

14.Banning TikTok is not the only solution to the problem.   

15.Millions of young TikTok users would be voting for the first time very soon.  

16.Young voices are determined to take action in September.  

VI OVER TO YOU. Share your opinion on why (or why not) social media like TikTok can be dangerous for national security. Would banning this social media platform solve the problem? Why or why not? Do people use TikTok in your country? If yes, what content do they post?   

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?