Cyber Bullying. How safe are you online?

You are going to 

• discuss being safe online and on social network sites
• listen to a discussion about cyber bullying
• do a gap fill exercise
• write a leaflet giving advice to people who use social network sites

1) Discuss
There has been a lot of talk recently about the risks of bullying and abuse on social networking sites. The NSPCC says nearly a fifth of children who use them have suffered a negative experience in the last year.

• Do you enjoy being online?
• Do you feel safe online?
• What bad things can happen on the internet?
• Has anything bad happened to you or anyone you know on the net?
• What can you do if anything bad happens to you online?
• What are trolls and what is trolling?
• What is cyber-bullying? Do you understand the words in the image below?

 

2) Listen
This listening clip is from BBC TV.  Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s The Surgery and the blogger Hannah Witton discuss how safe young people feel on the internet.

A) Listen. Don't worry if you don't understand everything. 
Answer these questions.

• What problems do they talk about?
• What advice do they give?

listen to ‘How safe do young people feel using the internet?’ on Audioboo

B) Now listen again and fill in the gaps in the exercise below.

Printable worksheet here






3) Discuss

• Do you agree with the advice Hannah and Rhada give?
• Is communication the best solution? Should parents and teenagers discuss these issues more?
• Do you agree that it the responsibility of parents to find out about the dangers of being online?
• Do you discuss the dangers of the internet with your friends / parents / children?
• What can we do about people who post anonymously?

4) Write
Using the ideas in the listening and any of your own ideas, write a leaflet giving advice to people who use soial network sites.

• Think of a title
• Use headings
• Think about the kind of language you could use (modal verbs for advice, conditionals, imperatives, suggestions...)
• Write an introduction - say who the leaflet is for and why it is necessary
• Describe some of the problems people can have on social network sites
• Give some advice / solutions

More
Hannah posted about the program on her blog. You can watch it here.
What does she say most people are like online?

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Sexting: is technology endangering teenagers?

You are going to

• listen to a radio debate on teenagers and technology
• discuss the dangers and benefits of new technologies
• do a sentence matching exercise
• prepare and write an IELTS style question on the subject

1) Discuss

• Should teenagers  be prevented from using new technologies or should they be trusted to develop their self-awareness of the dangers of modern gadgets?
• How can teenagers be protected or protect themselves?

2) Listen

"Bringing Up Britain"
Mariella Fostrup is joined by a panel of child protection experts and commentators to debate
the dangers and benefits of raising ‘digital kids’. Sexting, using a smartphone to send indecent images to others, is a particular worry to parents of teenagers. Mariella asks whether teenagers should be prevented from using these technologies or whether they should be trusted to develop their self-awareness of the dangers of modern gadgets.

In the first episode of the new series of Bringing Up Britain, Mariella is joined by Professor Tanya Byron, Professor Lydia Plowman, Julie Johnson, Helen King (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) and Professor Sonia Livingstone.


Listen to the clip

• What ideas are suggested to protect teenagers from danger?

Also on audioboo http://audioboo.fm/boos/969034-sexting-is-technology-endangering-teenagers





3) Match the sentences
Look at the exercise below
Match the beginnings and ends of the sentences. Listen again if you need to.



Printable worksheet here




4) Discuss

• Which of the above ideas do you agree / disagree with?

5) Write
Choose 1
1) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "New advances in technology are doing more harm than good to teenagers". Use specific reasons and examples to support your position. (IELTS - 250 words)


2) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "The internet is a danger to teenagers and acces to it should be strictly controlled". Use specific reasons and examples to support your position. (IELTS - 250 words)






6) More
Staying Safe Online - Exposed video
http://efllecturer.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/staying-safe-online-exposed-ceop-video.html

Should parents follow their children on facebook?
http://efllecturer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/should-parents-follow-their-children-on.html

Does more technology mean more ommunication?
http://efllecturer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/does-more-technology-mean-more.html

Air New Zealand All Blacks Flight Safety Video

You are going to

1) Discuss flying and air safety procedures
2) Watch a flight safety video and do some comprehension activities
3) Look at and practise the following grammar points;
   a) the zero conditional with an imperative
   b) "should" and "were to" in conditionals to express improbability eg "If something should / were to happen..."
   c) language for advice, instructions and obligation
4) Write an instruction / advice leaflet
5) Adapt your leaflet into a powerpoint presentation or film

Teacher's notes; 

1. Answers are in the powerpoint presentation at the bottom of the post

2. The All Blacks are the New Zealand rugby team.

1) Discuss

• How often do you fly?
• Do you pay attention to the flight safety demonstrations?
• Do you know what to do in an emergency?
• Make a note of any vocabulary you need to explain what to do. For example; take off, land, exit, signs, seats, fasten, seat-belt, life-jacket, oxygen mask, overhead compartments, evacuate

2) Video 
a) Do you know..?
You are going to watch a flight safety video. How many of these questions do you know the answers to?

1. Where should you store your baggage?
2. What should you do if the seat-belt sign is switched on?
3. If an oxygen mask should drop down in front of you, what would you do?
4. What should you make sure of before you help anyone?
5. If an emergency were to happen during take-off or landing, what should you do?
6. How do you put on the life-jacket?
7. Where can you smoke?
8. How will you find the exit if there is no light?
9. What should you count?
10. What should you do with your mobile phone?

2b) Watch the video to check your answers

Air New Zealand - 'Crazy About Rugby' Safety Video from CDow on Vimeo.

2c) After you watch. How much can you remember? 

Finish the sentences.

1. Even if you fly with us often, please keep your eyes on the briefing.
2. Make sure all your baggage is stored away…
3. Whether you’re in the front row or the back…
4. We recommend you keep your seat-belt fastened throughout the flight, but…
5. If the seat-belt sign is switched on…
6. If an oxygen mask should drop down in front of you…
7. If there are young ones around you…
8. If an emergency were to happen during take-off or landing…
9. If you find yourself needing to smoke on this flight…
10. If you need to find your way out even if it’s All Black…
11. Should we need to evacuate…
12. Mobile phones can interfere with aircraft systems and mustn’t be used in flight unless...

Can't remember them all?

Try the matching exercise below

3) Discuss Grammar

1. What do these sentences have in common?
2. What's the difference between them?

   A) If an oxygen mask drops down in front of you, use it to breathe.

   B) If an oxygen mask were to drop down in front of you, use it to breathe.

   C) If an oxygen mask should drop down in front of you, use it to breathe.

   D) Should an oxygen mask drop down in front of you, use it to breathe.

3. Which 3 are the most unlikely? 

Practise
If + "were to... "  http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/wereto.html
http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional11.htm

Conditionals - Alternative forms http://esl.about.com/cs/advanced/a/gr_cond_alt_2.htm

4) Writing

Use the information from the video to write a flight safety advice leaflet.
or
Write a leaflet advising people what to do in an emergency
For example - A fire
Does your school or college have fire drills?
Do you know what to do and where to go if there was a fire?

Use some of the language from the video

• If the alarm were to ring...
• If the alarm should ring...
• Should the alarm ring...
• Make sure you...
• All students must...
• We recommend (that) you + verb

5) Speaking

Turn your leaflet from part 4 into a presentation or film.
Make a powerpoint presentation
or
direct and act in an instructional film telling people what to do in an emergency

6) Sporting vocabulary

This Air New Zealand video features the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team. There are many sporting expressions in the video. Read the transcript here http://lybio.net/air-new-zealand-crazy-about-rugby-safety-video/travel-events/  or watch the video again. How many can you find?

Make a note of any other vocabulary in the film that you find useful


 
More air safety videos http://www.carhire.org/blog/funny-flight-safety-videos


Powerpoint presentation (containing answers)
Click to start

Air safety from David Mainwood

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What will happen if..? (1st Conditional)

You are going to practise the 1st conditional by 

• looking at some some photos and asking / answering questions
• looking at a health and safety picture and predicting some dangers

1) Discuss / Find out

• What is health and safety?
• What is the 1st conditional
• When do we use it?
• How do we make it?

Answers. Highlight here

Health and safety = People try and look at present dangers and predict accidents before they happen

We use the 1st conditional to talk about things which we can see now will be probable in the future.

If + Verb in Present, + Future

What will happen if you practise?
If you practise, you will learn


2) Practise
Watch the presentation. Ask and answer questions about the photos using the 1st Condional. Click the page to go.

What will happen if... (1st Conditional) from David Mainwood

3) Discuss / Write
Look at the picture. What dangers can you see?
How many sentences can you make using the 1st conditional?
eg If someone opens the door, the woman will fall off the chair.

Picture source http://www.cnxnotts.co.uk/pdfs/kangaroo/partners/WRL/OopsOuchAargh.pdf

4) More practice

Conditionals 1 and 2 here http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/04/conditionals-1-and-2.html

http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-would-happen-if-2nd-conditional.html

More health and safety language http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/health-and-safety.html

Find / take some photos of your class / college / home and make sentences about any dangers you see.
Make a health and safety leaflet. Remember to use some 1st Conditionals If you..., you will...



Some suggested answers for the picture - highlight below

• If someone opens the door, the woman will fall off the chair
  
• If she falls, she will hurt herself
• If the kettle falls off the cupboard, boiling water will burn someone.
• If the woman at the desk touches the electic fire, she will burn her feet
• If the electric fire gets too hot, it will burn the desk or start a fire
• There are boxes and a cup on the floor. If the man trips on them, he will drop the box
• The man is smoking. If the cigarette ash falls in the box, it will start a fire
• There are too many plugs in the socket. If they get too hot, they will start a fire
• If someone opens the door, he will trip on the wires
• There are too many books and files on the high shelf. If it breaks, they will fall and break the computer or hurt someone.

Exposed (CEOP Video - Staying Safe Online)

You are going to

• watch a film about internet safety
• do some gap-fill and matching exercises
• practise present simple
• discuss ways to stay safe online

Teacher's note;

‘Exposed’ is a 10 minute drama about a 15 year old girl called Dee who sends some compromising images of herself to her boyfriend. The film deals with some of the dangers of texting, "sexting", social networking and online bullying and offers some advice and solutions to those who make mistakes

Through the film and the accompanying activities, young people are encouraged to understand:

• the reasons why young people are taking and forwarding these image
• the issue of trust in relationships
• how photos can end up out of the hands of the intended recipient and be circulated much more widely
• the speed at which images can be spread on the internet
• the online and offline bullying which may occur as a result
• the  idea of digital footprint and online reputation
• the legal implications of self-generated indent images
• the process of removing content online, and where to seek further help and advice
• why they should not take and send these images. 

 

1) Discuss

• Do you use the internet a lot?
• Do you use social networking sites like facebook?
• What are the good things about using these sites and the internet?
• What are the bad things?

2) Watch the film.

• What does Dee do wrong?  
• What do you think of what she did?

 

3) Order the sentences 

Put the sentences in the same order as they happen in the film.
You can drag and drop the sentences over to the number on the left.

4) Listen to the end again. Do the gap-fill exercise

5) Summary. Do the gap-fill exercise

Printable version here

 

Writing activities 

Choose 1

1) In groups prepare, discuss and take notes to write an advice leaflet or an online guide / webpage giving advice to people called "How to be safe online"

2) Computers are everywhere nowadays. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using computers?

3) Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information. Others think access to so much information creates problems. Which view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. (IELTS)

More info here

http://thinkuknow.co.uk/11_16/control/sexting

http://www.ceop.police.uk/

http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/teachers/exposed/

E-Safety http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=131859