Foscari - Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica
Foscari - Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica
Foscari - Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica
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3. c. Tee viewed stealing as fun and easy.<br />
4. d. Statistics show that online crime has risen in the past year.<br />
5. f. Criminologists say that people commit online crime because they think they won’t get caught.<br />
6. h. Tougher security and public awareness are two methods to stop crime.<br />
7. a. People should not give their personal details over the phone.<br />
8. b. People should be careful of suspicious email and attachments.<br />
Vocabulary 1: Find the word<br />
1. rack up 2. anonymously 3. flippant 4. scant 5. refund 6. beneficial 7. insecure<br />
8. <strong>di</strong>sguise<br />
Vocabulary 2: Odd word out<br />
1. <strong>di</strong>rector (the others are all related to crime)<br />
2. react (the others are all verbs relating to stealing)<br />
3. padlock (the others are all money and bank related words)<br />
4. industry (the others are all ways of paying for something)<br />
5. cashier (the others are all Internet related words)<br />
Vocabulary 3: Prepositions<br />
1. away 2. in 3. into 4. on 5. about 6. over<br />
Tigers and gorillas for sale online<br />
Fill the gaps using these key words from the text.<br />
wildlife investigator exotic endangered<br />
specimen stuffed anonymous unaware<br />
1. If an animal is part of an ____________ species, it may soon <strong>di</strong>sappear completely from the world.<br />
2. A ____________ is an example of something, especially of a plant or an animal.<br />
3. If you are ____________ of something, you don’t know it exists.<br />
4. A ____________ animal is a dead animal that has been filled with material so that it looks alive.<br />
5. If something is ____________, it is interesting or exciting because it is rare or unusual.<br />
6. ____________ is a general word for animals and birds that live in natural con<strong>di</strong>tions.<br />
7. An ____________ is someone whose job is to find out the facts about something.<br />
8. If someone is ____________ , no-one knows their name.<br />
Look in the text and find the following information as quickly as possible.<br />
1. What does IFAW stand for?<br />
2. How many websites were investigated?<br />
3. What was the price of the Siberian tiger?<br />
4. What was the price of the giraffe?<br />
5. How many wildlife products <strong>di</strong>d IFAW find in a single week?<br />
6. How many live apes <strong>di</strong>d they find?<br />
Tigers and gorillas for sale online<br />
Wildlife crime investigators working with an international animal charity say that thousands of<br />
endangered animals, which are supposed to be protected by law, are being bought and sold openly on<br />
the internet.<br />
The investigators looked at nearly 100 websites based around the world and found a “shocking”<br />
selection of rare and endangered animals for sale. They included a Siberian tiger ($70,000), a young<br />
gorilla ($8,100) advertised as being in London, and other rare monkeys, birds, seahorses and whole<br />
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