Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - Ignore at your peril for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Listen again and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. kids addicted at eight years old, 40% of world population online
  2. Students have lost their ability to construct an essay and just cut and paste, basically engaging in plagiarism.
  3. He is one himself. They are people who have grown up with the Internet.
  4. His main concern is with young people ‘over- sharing’ and the danger of online profiles causing problems for young people in the future.
  5. He’d arrest anyone caught looking at banned websites.
  6. It would require a huge online policing presence, and most offenders are probably pretty harmless.
  7. He’d make an example of one or two people to put others off.
  8. The possibility of ending up involved in a legal dispute about appropriate punishments.