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Unit 1

Peeping Tom

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Nudity Blogging Big Brother The basics Signal words (Revision past tenses) On speaking terms Revealing (part of) yourself Shuffle Art Spiegelman, Maus Did you know?

Facial recognition Digging deeper Formulating a research question Finger exercise Blogging about school specifics Peekaboo!

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Spencer Tunick, Corpus 05 • What is the first thing that goes through your mind when you see this picture? Explain.

• Spencer Tunick once photographed 18,000 naked people together. Why does he choose for nudity in numbers, do you think?

• What can you tell about the surroundings? Do you think they are important?

• Tunick’s work is not just seen as art, it is called performance art. Explain.

• Do you think Tunick has problems finding models for his work?

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How would you react in the following situations?

Would you laugh, be embarrassed, cover your eyes, have a good look … ?

• You go on holiday with your friends. They made the arrangements.

When you arrive, you find out that it’s a nudist camping.

• You are going to the beach with your family. Your brother knows an excellent spot, a friend of a friend told him about it. While you are getting settled, an older couple arrives, they fully undress and go to the sea to take a swim.

• Your friends show you the pictures of their last holiday. They include topless images.

• You are watching a football match. Suddenly a female supporter seated next to you lifts her shirt and starts showing her breasts. They are painted in the colours of her club.

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Name and explain these very specific examples of nudity.

Do you think they are good uses of nudity?

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What does the name Godiva tell you?

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Read the poem Godiva by Lord Tennyson and answer the questions

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a spire: pointed top of a building to prate: to talk in a silly way for a long time about unimportant things grim: hopeless, horrible to fillip: to strike with the nail of a finger snapped from the end of the thumb to repeal: to state officially that a law has ended a herald: a messenger a bower: a woman’s bedroom

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by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires*; and there I shaped The city’s ancient legend into this: Not only we, the latest seed of Time, New men, that in the flying of a wheel Cry down the past, not only we, that prate* Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well, And loathed to see them overtax’d; but she Did more, and underwent, and overcame, The woman of a thousand summers back, Godiva, wife to that grim* Earl, who ruled In Coventry: for when he laid a tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamoring, “If we pay, we starve!”

She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode About the hall, among his dogs, alone, His beard a foot before him and his hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray’d him, “If they pay this tax, they starve.”

Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, “You would not let your little finger ache For such as these?” – “But I would die,” said she.

He laugh’d, and swore by Peter and by Paul; Then fillip’d* at the diamond in her ear; “Oh ay, ay, ay, you talk!” – “Alas!” she said, “But prove me what I would not do.”

And from a heart as rough as Esau’s hand, He answer’d, “Ride you naked thro’ the town, And I repeal* it;” and nodding, as in scorn, He parted, with great strides among his dogs.

So left alone, the passions of her mind, As winds from all the compass shift and blow, Made war upon each other for an hour, Till pity won. She sent a herald* forth, And bade him cry, with sound of trumpet, all The hard condition; but that she would loose The people: therefore, as they loved her well, From then till noon no foot should pace the street, No eye look down, she passing; but that all Should keep within, door shut, and window barr’d.

Then fled she to her inmost bower*, and there Unclasp’d the wedded eagles of her belt,

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a palfrey: a saddle horse, especially for women chinks and holes: narrow openings a gable: the top part of a building just below the roof, shaped like a triangle an auger: tool for drilling and making holes Source: www.online_literature.com

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The grim Earl’s gift; but ever at a breath She linger’d, looking like a summer moon Half-dipt in cloud: anon she shook her head, And shower’d the rippled ringlets to her knee; Unclad herself in haste; adown the stair Stole on; and, like a creeping sunbeam, slid From pillar unto pillar, until she reach’d The Gateway, there she found her palfrey* trapt In purple blazon’d with armorial gold.

Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen’d round her as she rode, And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.

The little wide-mouth’d heads upon the spout Had cunning eyes to see: the barking cur Made her cheek flame; her palfrey’s foot-fall shot Light horrors thro’ her pulses; the blind walls Were full of chinks and holes*; and overhead Fantastic gables*, crowding, stared: but she Not less thro’ all bore up, till, last, she saw The white-flower’d elder-thicket from the field, Gleam thro’ the Gothic archway in the wall.

Then she rode back, clothed on with chastity; And one low churl, compact of thankless earth, The fatal byword of all years to come, Boring a little auger*-hole in fear, Peep’d – but his eyes, before they had their will, Were shrivel’d into darkness in his head, And dropt before him.

So the Powers, who wait On noble deeds, cancell’d a sense misused; And she, that knew not, pass’d: and all at once, With twelve great shocks of sound, the shameless noon Was clash’d and hammer’d from a hundred towers, One after one: but even then she gain’d Her bower; whence reissuing, robed and crown’d, To meet her lord, she took the tax away And built herself an everlasting name.

Search the poem for words that match the following definitions. a) you don’t care what other people think, you don’t have decency or modesty b) to give a particular form to, to create c) to become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying d) the condition or quality of being pure e) to unfasten

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What is, in a nutshell, the story of Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom?

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Read the poem again. What does it tell you about the character of Lady Godiva?

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What about her husband?

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5) Read lines 56-61 again. Although all people stay in their houses, there are still voyeurs.

Can you name them?

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There may be peeping, but Godiva is not powerless. What happens to peeping Tom?

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The Victorian poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in 1809 and he died in 1892. During his lifetime, he began to see many changes in society, particularly in the way the roles of women are perceived. In Victorian England, women only belonged in the private sphere. However, the women’s movement in England was becoming more active. Women wanted to vote, work and own property.

In the light of all this, what can you say about the character of Godiva and the way Tennyson portrays her in this poem?

In what ways Godiva wants to stay inside, in what ways, she breaks out?

8) How important is nudity in this poem? Is nudity what defines the power of Godiva?

9) Are there any differences between private and public nowadays? And between male and female?

10) Can you give examples of how nudity is used today to cross these spheres?

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The word naked is used in many contexts. What does it mean in the following phrases?

• naked conviction • the naked eye • naked light • naked of comfort

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a wall naked of paintings naked order naked sword naked truth

Discuss in group.

• Do you or would you go naked …

- during night swimming with your best friends?

- on a private beach?

- in the sauna?

- in the shower after sport?

- with your parents around?

• Have you ever been in an amusing / embarassing / terrifying situation involving nudity? What happened?

• What are the rules in our country regarding nudity? What are the unwritten rules? Are you happy with them?

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Watch the movie Peeping Tom and answer the questions.

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What is the first thing you see? What does this tell you about the movie?

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How is this theme represented in the movie?

Watch the following scene and answer the questions.

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What does this scene tell you about the relationship between the murderer and his father?

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What about the other big theme of this movie?

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I n what way does the murderer use what he learned from his father, how does he represent the second theme of the movie?

Now watch a third scene and answer the questions.

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ow is this second theme used by the murderer?

H How is it created and even enhanced (= intensified)?

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he murderer is a voyeur and uses that as his ‘modus operandi.’

T But he is not the only ‘Peeping Tom’.

Who else is a voyeur?

Discuss these works of art.

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Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase

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Fiona Banner

Your school is going to organise an art exhibition. Therefore, advertising posters have to made in order to attract visitors. You and your class are going on an excursion to a museum to discuss the art works.

It’s up to you to decide which of these three art works will be displayed on the posters.

What?

Why? How?

Discuss these works of art and summarise the results in a review.

To prove you can have a discussion and write a review expressing your own opinion.

1) Discuss the pictures in class. Which ones are liked and / or considered art? Why? 2) Take notes.

3) Which work of art did you write about the most? This is probably the one you’ll want to write a review about.

4) Arrange your notes and add. Why do you appreciate this work or not? Why should someone else appreciate it or not? Why do you think it is art? Or not? Consult some review on the Internet to get started. Make sure you have a beginning, a middle containing arguments and an end with a conclusion.

What matters? Language and grammar, opinion-based and fact-based arguments, persuasiveness, reading pleasure, whether the readers shares your opinion or not.

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Think twice! Everybody is entitled to have his / her own opinion. You can’t have the wrong opinion here. What matters is how you express it. Do you do this the right way?

Read the other reviews about your work of art. What do they think? Do you agree? Can they convince you? What can you ‘steal’ or ‘learn’ from them?

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Discuss the nudity in these advertising campaigns.

Is there more behind it than just the desire to offend people? What is the difference between nude and naked?

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Discuss.

We all know that awkward dream where we walk into school and then realise we forgot our clothes at home.

• What are ‘awful’ places to situate this kind of dream?

• What could happen?

• What else could you forget to feel ‘naked’ although you are still wearing your clothes?

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Write two paragraphs about your dream.

Now, work with a partner. Use two paragraphs to very carefully describe a situation.

The last sentence will be: ‘Then I realised I forgot my clothes at home.’

Your story can be funny or sad or very realistic … But try to really use this last line as a tool that makes the whole story fall into place.

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Listen to the interview with the British actress Kate Winslet and answer the questions.

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Why does she think nude scenes are okay?

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here is another reason why she thinks nude scenes are important.

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What does she do to prepare herself?

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What is functional nudity?

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Do you believe in such a thing as ‘functional nude’? Explain.

Read this Nude, leaning by artist Fiona Banner and answer the question.

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Instead of showing nudity, she describes it. Do you think it works? Explain.

Now, you do the same. You choose a picture of a person and write a text describing, like Fiona Banner, the body.

Your teacher will collect all texts and pictures.

Can your classmates match the pictures and texts?

In which case the text is better than the picture?

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Read the text and answer the questions.

Britain should not fear fiscal voyeurism

By Martin Sandbu

Tax publicity could make people relaxed about money, says Martin Sandbu.

A few years ago I came across a stack of old newspapers, circa 1921. They chronicled the goings-on in the Norwegian village of Vaga, from where my grandfather hailed*. Among wedding announcements, notices of cattle markets and other articles whose relevance was strictly circumscribed by both time and geography, one page grabbed my attention. It listed the top 10 local residents by income and wealth, as declared in that year’s tax return.

I was amused to see that on both criteria, farmer Tor Sandbu – my great-grandfather – appeared in second place, though the distance between him and number one settled him among the comfortable rather than the super-rich.

I do not expect Financial Times readers to care too much about my family history. But given the British brouhaha about whether politicians should make their tax affairs public, my journey into the past may kindle* some interest. Indeed, it is amazing what can come from a foul-mouthed* exchange in a lift between Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone.

Both of these London mayoral candidates have now released some tax information.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg say that they support more disclosure in principle, too. It seems like the Norwegian press were on to something all those years ago.

to hail from: to be from a particular place to kindle interest: to arouse interest foul-mouthed: dirty, offensive worked up: agitated or excited to forfeit: to lose something valuable by making a mistake or by doing something wrong to whet: make sharp, arouse, excite a slope: a rising of falling surface

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But the local newspaper’s reporting was not the result of investigative journalism.

In 1921, the wealth and income declared in every Norwegian’s tax return were by law in the public domain, as were the amounts of income and wealth taxes that were owed.

All it took was the recognition that “human interest” stories are often stories of how others are much better off or much worse off than yourself.

And so it remains today. Although the exact level of access has varied over the decades, today’s Norwegians have the same ability as their great-grandfathers to pursue the rewarding pastime of checking how much the neighbour, or the prime minister, earns and owns. Every year they indulge in this

fiscal voyeurism; every year the newspapers exploit it for what it is worth; every year a few very rich people with suspiciously low tax liabilities are outed; and very quickly, life goes back to normal.

I realize that to the British, the unveiling of people’s financial lives ranks slightly above the baring of their anatomy on the scale of indecency. But getting worked up* about nakedness – whether of the bodily or the pecuniary kind – is not always a healthy idea.

Britons should consider how unproblematic tax publicity is in Norway and in the few other countries that practise it regularly.

Here in the UK, the debate is so far limited to whether senior politicians such as Mr Johnson and members of the cabinet should make their tax affairs public.

I find it hard to see how anyone can object to this – even if one thinks that tax return information is something of the most intimate nature.

Politicians hold the power to decide what we should all pay into the nation’s common fund. More than that: they have actively sought that power over us. By doing so, they forfeit* any claim to privacy that is incompatible with proper checks on the power they gain.

If we believe in democracy, surely we must demand to know how we are all affected by the policies chosen by politicians. Otherwise, how are we to judge whether they are acting in the common interest or in their own? Or whether they abide by the decisions they impose on the rest of us?

But a principle can be defeated if its consequences are too awful. That’s the best argument for those who worry about politicians’ sudden eagerness to let it all hang out, financially speaking. If this catches on, they fear, it will whet* the worst instincts of man. “This will induce the politics of envy,” David Davis, the Conservative backbencher, has warned. His parliamentary colleague Ian Liddell-Grainger goes further: “It is an abominable slope*,” he says, implying that it

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may lead to pressure for all of our tax affairs to be made public, not just those of politicians.

Let me make a radical suggestion. The Scandinavian experience suggests that the bottom of that slippery slope may be a much more comfortable place than Mr Liddell-Grainger fears – and it is certainly an easier place to settle than part way down the hill. If politicians are routinely going to publish their annual returns, it is well worth considering making all taxpayers’ basic tax information public.

to keep tabs on: to observe: an anomaly: something unusual, unexpected Source: www.ft.com

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There is a democratic argument for this, if not as strong as the one to keep tabs on* rulers.

It is that it is every citizen’s duty to pay a fair share of the costs of the nation’s common affairs, and it is every citizen’s right to know that this is happening. This – and the thought that it may well encourage compliance – is why the US Congress, in the early days of the income tax, determined that tax lists should be available on request to “any and all persons”, and why some American localities would have people’s tax return information pinned to town hall doors.

But the practical case is stronger. For in the long run, tax publicity is more likely

to reduce, not increase, the importance of money and envy in politics. This is partly because publicity would discourage people from tax avoidance that is legal but condemned by public norms, and partly because publicity would change public attitudes to many tax rules when the anomalies* they lead to become more visible. One hopes it could create pressure for a simpler, more predictable tax system.

But most of all, it could make people a bit more relaxed about money – even if we’ll never be as “intensely relaxed” as Peter Mandelson once claimed to be about how much the richest earned. After a while, there would be less to find out that we do not know, and less that would be likely to shock. Except, of course, for those features of the tax system that are shocking because they are unjust. But surely that is exactly how it should be.

I will declare an interest: public tax information will of course benefit journalists.

But consider the possibility that it might benefit us all, and not cause the sky to fall down once we get used to it. Most importantly of all: it might just give unexpected joys to your great-grandchildren.

Find words in the text that fit these definitions. a) obsessively observing sordid or sensational subjects b) to make sure you have someone’s attention c) uproar, a loud, confused noise d) to chase e) to be yourself, expose everything

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Find synonyms in the text for the following words. a) to distress b) abnormality c) evasion d) to disclose e) vulgarity

f) to go public g) to pamper h) to accomplish i) confidentiality j) to criticize

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What kind of nudity does this article talk about?

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What arguments are in favour of this nudity?

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What arguments are against it?

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Which nudity do you think is worse to reveal, ‘real’ or ‘financial’? Why?

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You will find some highlighted words in the previous text Britain should not fear fiscal voyeurism.

They are called signal words, because they signal the relationship between paragraphs or sentences.

What do these particular words signal?

Signal words In order to be able to lead you in the direction he wants you to go, an author uses signal words in his text. It also works the other way around: when you write, you can use signal words to order your reader in the direction you want to go.

1 Continuation signals make clear there are more ideas to come and also another first of all A final reason furthermore moreover likewise more one reason other secondly

again in addition moreover similarly

and finally last of all next too

with

despite instead of on the contrary while

different from in spite of on the other hand though

then after since later

in the first place while into (far into the night) earlier

2 Change-of-direction signals although but even though however nevertheless otherwise rather still

conversely in contrast the opposite yet

3 Sequence signals first, second next until always

A, B, C for one thing before now last during o’clock on time

4 Illustration signals for example much like

specifically similar to

to illustrate such as

for instance in the same way as

5 Emphasis signals a major development it all boils down to a significant factor a primary concern most noteworthy key feature

a major event pay particular a vital force

attention to a central issue should be noted a distinctive quality

above all the main value especially important especially relevant the crux of the especially valuable matter important to note the principal item

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most of all more than anything _ else remember that the most substantial _ issue the basic concept the chief outcome

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6 Cause, condition, or result signals because if so while until since so that therefore due to resulting from

of then as unless consequently

for but whether yet

from that in order that thus

also less even analogous to however though

too less than then but although

best more than half different from opposite

finally last of all

from this we see therefore

in conclusion

7 Comparison-contrast signals and or most either same better much as like still yet rather while 8 Conclusion signals as a result in summary

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Read the text and mark all the signal words.

Put them in the correct category.

Now, replace them using another word from this category. Can you make the text better?

The bare facts about Greek art First-time museum viewers may be surprised to find that most sculpture of Greek gods, heroes, and athletes are shown without clothes. This is because the Greeks were the first people to discover how to realistically portray and even ‘improve’ the human body in art – giving it beautifully proportioned limbs, well-developed muscles, and idealized contours. What better way to honor gods and heroes than to show them in their perfect natural form? Covering the body with clothes only concealed its natural beauty. For this reason, Greek society accepted nudity. Athletes practiced and competed in the nude, and countless statues honoring them were placed in public spaces.

Source: Museum of Artand Archeology, Addressing nudity in art

But there are many reasons artists nowadays choose to portray the human body or form without clothing. First, the human form is beautiful, making it an ideal subject for art. Moreover, the human body can be expressive. Third, the human form is part

of the commonality which holds the human race together. It is familiar to all peoples regardless of background, sex, education, culture, or ethnic identity. Thus, artists often use the human form in their art to express universal truths and to address those ideas or concepts which bind all human beings together. Because of our familiarity with the human form, artists can use the human form to symbolize human values, for instance a pregnant woman or nursing mother often symbolizes innocence. Also, artists can use distortion of the body or simplification of human form to achieve an emotional recognition and intellectual response to the artwork from the viewer because of our immediate identification with the human form. Last but not least, the human body is anatomically consistent, which makes it a good subject to represent realistically.

Throughout history artists have gone to great lengths, including dissection, to examine human anatomy to achieve artistic accuracy.

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Are you a digital voyeur?

Has technology whetted our secret appetite for spying on other people?

The scenario plays out often enough across America that it’s a frightening commonplace. A girl sends a nude sext to her boyfriend and, later, someone – it could be the boy after the breakup or someone who has access to his cell – hits ‘send’ and the image goes viral. Lives are changed and sometimes ruined.

‘Maddie,’ now 22, saw it happen to a girl in her high school and, yes, she was one of the recipients of the sext. I ask her how she felt about it: “I felt sorry for the girl,” she says.

Did she send the image on? No, but she did show it to a few of her girlfriends. I ask if she thought that was creepy. No, because she didn’t send it. Didn’t that make her feel as if she were a voyeur or something? “No,” she says. “I didn’t ask to look at it. It was sent to me. And, besides, stuff like that happens.”

Does the word ‘voyeur’ still have meaning in the digital age when we’ve all become ‘watchers’ in one way or another? When the line between public and private has become increasingly permeable*?

There are still old-fashioned voyeurs around – like the guy with his binoculars on the terrace in the high rise* across from mine, which I suspect aren’t trained on bird watching, but they’re few and far between, and harder to spot because voyeurism is the new normal. permeable: that can be permeated or penetrated a high rise: a multistoried building equipped with elevators thomasina: feminine form of the given name Thomas skivvies: men’s underwear unwitting: without fully realising to be privy to: knowing something secret or private Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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The celebrity culture turns us all, willing or not, into Peeping Toms or Thomasinas*, as does the 24/7 cycle of news. Monica’s blue dress, Tiger Wood’s texts, Rielle Hunter whispering “You’re hot,” Anthony Weiner’s skivvies* – the list goes on and on – made voyeurs of us all. Reality television and, of course, pornography are the plats du jour on the voyeuristic menu. Of course, watching reality television isn’t strictly speaking voyeuristic since it’s scripted and the ‘stars’ know you’re watching. Still, it’s a guilty pleasure nonetheless that’s close to the heart of voyeurism – of peeking into private territory where you shouldn’t be.

Being a voyeur nowadays isn’t just about sex or watching in the literal sense. Former lovers become voyeurs when they check out each other’s Facebook pages, or – if they’ve been ‘defriended’ – have someone else do it for them. The ease with which the drama – whether it’s a text message thread or something else – can be forwarded and shared sometimes turns a Millennial into an unwitting* voyeur as well, in the middle of private drama he or she shouldn’t be privy to*.

Voyeurism has the ability to desensitize, making people content to watch, instead of act. Dramas played out in public – witness the relationship between Yeardley Love and George Huguely which ended in her murder – turn even friends into voyeurs who, alas, were content to watch.

The usually sunny posts on Facebook – particularly by people we hardly know – don’t make us feel as though we’re peeping, though that too can change in an instant, as it did for one woman not too long ago.

“I couldn’t help myself,” she tells me, “but here’s someone I hardly know, confiding all of these incredibly intimate details about her marriage in her posts. I kept going back online to read. She was clearly in the middle of a meltdown but it’s Facebook.

I’ve never even spoken to her in person.

What was I supposed to do? Call her?”

She didn’t, of course, and then things got even stranger. The person disappeared from Facebook and deleted her page. “I had no idea what happened to her, and I felt incredibly uncomfortable. Then, weeks later, she re-friended me and she was back.

Her posts were the kind of things people post all the time – chat about gardens and the day and so forth. She never mentioned what happened –whatever did happen – ever again.”

Is it all that different, in the end, from training your binoculars on the neighbors across the street? Is the new voyeurism making it harder to connect and easier to just stand there, watching? You tell me.

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Write two paragraphs in which you give at least three good arguments for one of the theses below.

• Nudity is personal, we make it public.

• Nobody respects privacy today.

• We are all voyeurs. We just think that’s something personal, so we don’t have to admit it.

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wap texts with a neighbour. Read the text you got. Make it better, just by adding more / better S signal words.

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ow, swap texts again with a third person. Can you add signal words in such a way that the text N now starts to defend the opposite thesis?

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Read the text and answer the questions.

Source: Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

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What do you learn about the family in this story?

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When does this story take place?

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What is the story about the second son’s arm?

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What does this story tell you about the identity of these people?

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What can you tell about the relationship between the father and the son?

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Does the fact that this is a cartoon add something to the story?

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These are in fact two tales. Which ones?

Listen and answer the questions.

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What was the main reason the book was rejected by many publishers before it finally got published?

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Why did he choose mice?

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Why did he choose this story to tell?

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It’s a story about a holocaust survivor and a holocaust survivor’s son. Why?

4 On speaking terms Revealing (part of) yourself to read one’s mind I was going to suggest that. You must have read my mind.

You read my mind. That’s exactly what I was thinking too. to know something inside out Ask Mary to help you with your homework. She knows physics inside out.

If you got the answer from Matt, I would trust it. He knows that stuff inside out. it’s written all over your face I know you did it, it’s written all over your face.

I can tell you are upset. It’s written all over your face. my two cents I don’t agree with what’s happening. That’s just my two cents.

Just to add my two cents, but I believe changing the design will be a better idea.”

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I know you told him, ... .

Nobody asks for my opinion, but ... .

If he says you should do it, you should do it, he ... .

That’s exactly my idea, you must … !

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What idiom do you use in the following situations? a) b) c) d)

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You are looking for someone you can trust.

You have a strong opinion, but nobody wants to believe it.

Your best friend uses your solution.

Your best friend is lying, but you know better.

Give your two cents about: • the outfit of your teacher • this week’s homework • the technology present in your school

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Practise revealing yourself.

Work in pairs. Your partner has something / someone in mind.

Try to read his / her mind. You can ask yes-no questions.

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How familiar are you with the blog basics?

What do the following words mean? Make correct combinations.

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blog

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stalking via the internet

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entry or post

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internet bullies

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to blog

c) killer meets victim via the internet

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MAB

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multi-author blog

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microblogging

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comment a reader posts on a blog

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cyberstalking

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all the blogs and their interconnections

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internet homicide

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to add content to a blog

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blogosphere

h) contraction of the words web log, a discussion of informational site published on the internet

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reader comments

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blog containing very short posts (twitter)

10) internet trolls

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message you write on your blog

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Read the text and answer the questions. What do you think makes a blog a good blog?

What Makes a Good Blog?

Focus, personality and reader comments are key to building an audience, say popular bloggers

By William Kraska The Internet contains nearly 3 million active blogs, according to one recent count, with topics ranging from politics to movies, to food, to the emotional ramblings* of highschool teens.

With so many blogs, how does one become popular? What qualities will distinguish a blog from the massive congestion in the blogosphere?

Blogs become successful because of specificity and passion, according to Kevin Donahue, co-creator of Fanblogs, a college football blog described by Forbes.com as the best blog dedicated to a single sport.

ramblings: excessive and meaningless talk or writing snarky: cynical, sarcastic Source: http://journalism.nyu.edu

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“Repeat visitors feel an ownership and loyalty to the blog. They will police comments, pointing out when someone is out of line.”

“Have a single focus about a topic you really enjoy, and put a little of yourself into it,” he says. Fanblogs prospers because college football already has a loyal fan base.

“And that passion translates into a loyal readership.”

Reader comments are a significant factor in blog popularity, according to several bloggers. Hart Brachen, creator of the

Daniel Kasman, a writer for the popular film discussion blog MilkPlus, agrees. Posted comments will keep a blog “fresh and full of discourse,” he says.

Lockhart Steele, the managing editor of blog publisher Gawker Media, says that after a blog develops an audience, readers will submit tips and fact-check stories. They basically “do all of the work for you.”

But before a blog is able to rely on its readers to help it succeed, a blogger must sometimes wait months, or even years, before a regular following develops. While some bloggers believe that they’re going to attract regular commenters within days of launching their blogs, Holiday of Fanblogs says, “it doesn’t happen like that.”

Modifying a quote from the movie “Field of Dreams,” he says: “If you build it, they will come … slowly.”

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What three things are essential for a good blog? Why are these things essential?

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What is the hardest part of creating a blog?

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Underline all words that have to do with blogging and weren’t mentioned in the brainstorm.

Visit the following four blogs and compare them, using the points of interest you can find in the previous article. www.fastcoexist.com www.visualnews.com www.passiveaggressivenotes.com www.facebook.com/AmazingThingsInTheWorld

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snarky*, ironic blog The Soxaholix says, “People who leave comments build the community aspect that really helps a site become more than just one blogger writing into space. Comments let you know what’s working and what’s not, and inspire you to keep at it.”

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Which blog do you think is the best and why?

Use the criteria you can find in the article and convince your classmates ‘your’ blog is the best.

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Take turns to repeat what your classmate wrote on their imaginary blog yesterday and add something new. If you forget a sentence, you are out of the game.

Remember irregular verbs have an irregular past form. e.g. “Yesterday I wrote on my blog about …”

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In what ways did blogs change the lives of these people? Use your imagination.

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Kevin Cotter

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Nay Phone Latt

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Erik Ringmar

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Kathy Sierra

Use the internet to find out whose explanation was closest to reality.

During a week, you will write your own microblog.

• First, choose your topic.

• Post a message at least once a day. Remember a good blog is about content and linking to other blogs / websites in the first place!

• Every day this week you read four blogs by your classmates.

• Finally, keep track of your own blog statistics. One of the key issues in blog popularity is how many followers you have. How many classmates can you encourage to follow your blog? And do you keep following the same classmates? Why?

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Watch the excerpt and answer the questions.

1)

In what way do blogs change the concept ‘news?’

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What is the big difference between a blog and traditional news channels?

3)

What can a blog do for you?

4)

Do you think bloggers are as powerful as this guy says? Explain.

5)

Do you think the influence blogs have on our ‘news’ is good? Explain.

You saw something very interesting the other day, worth blogging about.

Work in pairs, take turns to ask and answer questions to find out more.

Remember that you use a continuous tense when you are talking about something going on. e.g. – I saw a drunken man yesterday.

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* How do you know he was drunk?

– He was staggering.

* Did you speak to him?

Imagine a situation where you can be the fly on the wall.

It can be an important historical moment (e.g. the fall of the Berlin wall) or a moment that’s very important to you personally.

What moment do you chose? Why?

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Now, you are no longer the unseen fly on the wall.

It’s moments before you will be caught. You just have the time to send a text message. Who do you send it to? What do you text?

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Read the text and answer the questions.

Blogs: electronic exhibitionism?

Electronic exhibitionism describes the increasing worldwide phenomenon of individuals eviscerating* their own privacy by affirmatively posting and distributing private and intimate information, thoughts, activities and photographs via email, text messaging, blogs, and social networking pages. Electronic voyeurism is descriptive of the related phenomenon of individuals and employers, who are members of what Daniel J. Solove has described as Generation Google, searching, indexing and distributing electronic exhibitionist material of others. It is clear that both electronic exhibitionism and voyeurism are on the rise.

to eviscerate: to take away a vital or essential part of, to weaken an aperture: a small narrow hole or opening reluctance: unwillingness to bare: to uncover, reveal reciprocal: interchanged, given, or owed to each other to coin: to create, invent an inhibition: something that holds you back or restrains you from doing or thinking something, a restriction Source: William A. Herbert, Workplace Consequences of Electronic Exhibitionism and Voyeurism

If offered the opportunity, most reasonable people would decline an opportunity for the expansive and wholesale disclosure of information about their personal lives and activities or the display of intimate pictures in a periodical or on a billboard.

To varying degrees, such disclosures are usually limited to select individuals with the aperture* and the means of disclosure subjectively modulated for each intended recipient. With the exception of letters, notes and diary entries, a written record of intimate experiences and impressions is not left behind. Inherent in such limitations is a desire to retain a protected zone of individual privacy.

Despite the general reluctance* to bare* all through old media, new communicative technologies are leading, if not encouraging, individuals to engage in an unprecedented degree of exhibitionism about their personal lives, thoughts and activities to a virtual worldwide audience. Frequently, such communications relate directly or indirectly to work or co-workers and have the potential for causing negative employment consequences. Despite the potential for adverse consequences, millions, if not billions of people, are unmasking themselves electronically through email, text messaging, blogs, and social networking pages leaving a digital trail of information thereby eliminating plausible deniability.

Many engage in such exhibitionism during working hours utilizing employer computers and equipment.

The growth in electronic exhibitionism may be caused, in part, by what Clifford Nass and Youngme Moon have labeled “reciprocal* self-disclosure” where “people who receive intimate disclosure feel obligated to respond with a personal disclosure of equal intimacy.”

The tendency may also be due to the amorphous nature of virtual social networks that extend well beyond family and friends to workplace colleagues, acquaintances and strangers. Finally, in some circumstances, the exhibitionism may be a consequence of errors in judgment tied with cognitive lapses caused by chronic multitasking.

Three decades ago, sociologist Philip Slater coined* a metaphor for the cultural phenomenon of ignoring social problems by placing them out of view: the toilet assumption. The toilet assumption is also applicable to the disconnection between the electronic communicator and his or her digital trail. There is a perception of privacy when an individual electronically communicates, along with an implicit assumption that the audience is limited to the named recipient or the group of social network friends. The use of password protections can have the unintended consequence of creating a false sense of security. Moreover, the use of the delete button creates the illusion of permanency, which lowers inhibitions*, personal, sexual or otherwise, with respect to the content of the electronic communications.

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Read the definitions. Which definition suits which word?

a) to divide among several or many b) an interesting fact or event that can be observed or studied c) to become lower in amount, to become worse in condition or quality d) the act of making something known e) a person who receives something f) the state of being away from public attention g) to reveal the true nature of h) digital marks, signs that are left behind

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What is electronic exhibitionism?

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What is the toilet assumption?

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How strong do you think this assumption is?

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et’s be honest. Deep down we all know that the internet is public and we blog because we want L people to read or blog. We like to watch, but we also like to be watched. Why do you think this is?

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ark all the signal words in the text. Now use them to ‘map’ the text. You use keywords and M arrows to highlight the relationship between the different keywords. The idea is that your map shows you in one look what the text is all about.

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Compare your map with your classmates’ maps. Which one is the best? Why?

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8)

to unmask recipient digital trail phenomenon disclosure privacy to distribute to decline

These people know a thing or two about voyeurism. What can we learn from them?

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Discuss.

Regarding voyeurism and exhibitionism there is a very thin line between interesting and funny on one hand and embarrassing on the other hand. The socially awkward penguin uses that line.

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Now work together in groups and write your own situation.

Share with your classmates and discuss. Which one is the best / most embarrassing / most funny situation? Why?

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Watch the excerpt about internet trolls and answer the questions.

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What is an internet troll?

2)

What does this troll do?

3)

Why does he do it?

4)

Explain: ‘Nine weeks, what is that?’

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Do you think the internet troll is right? Explain.

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o you think there should be more and clearer rules?

D Do you think that is possible?

Take turns to repeat the sentence, but substitute the word your teacher writes on the board. e.g. I t was very strange. (Your teacher writes ‘bad’.) It was very bad. (Your teacher writes ‘book’). The book was very bad. a) b) c) d)

The news came from a reliable source.

She carefully kept her colleagues out of her private life.

The public was shocked by the indecency of the news he unveiled.

She posted a message on her blog about cyberstalking.

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39a

Here are the first lines of five possible blog entries. Write a few more sentences to set the scene.

You need the past continuous when you want to describe scenery instead of action. a) b) c) d) e)

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When we left the hotel it was eight in the evening …

Our teacher was smiling when she arrived this morning …

It was a beautiful summer morning …

I only left my bag for a minute and when I got back …

When I arrived in the park they had already started …

In small groups, read each other’s ideas.

Choose the best one and develop the story further.

Delegate one person to do the writing. Choose someone to read the story out to the rest of the class.

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Work in pairs. Write down the beginning of the following sentences and finish them to make a good tweet.

You need the past perfect simple when you want to describe what happened before something else in the past.

Home Profile Find People Settings Help Sign out

When we got to the station …

When I phoned my best friend …

Reply

9:43 PM Nov 5th via Twitter for iPhone

Home Profile Find People Settings Help Sign out

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Retweet

Home Profile Find People Settings Help Sign out

By the time I had found my keys …

10:33 AM Jan 10th via Twitter for iPhone

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Reply

7:01 AM Dec 23th via Twitter for iPhone

Home Profile Find People Settings Help Sign out

When I turned on the radio …

Reply

c

Retweet

12:41 PM May 30th via Twitter for iPhone

Write two more sentence beginnings and swap them with another pair.

Write the endings for the sentences you receive and pass them back.

Read out the first part and see if anyone in the class can guess what happened next.

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What does this quote tell you about voyeurism? Do you agree? Explain.

“You’re either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you’re going to be a voyeur. And I’m not a voyeur.”

Nicole Kidman

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Retweet

Reply

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals five.

2 + 2 = 5

6 Focus on …

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Big Brother

What do you think the quote on the previous page means?

It’s a quote from the novel 1984 by the English writer George Orwell, published in 1948. The story, which focuses on the life of Winston Smith, was Orwell’s vision of a totalitarian state which has absolute control over every action and thought of its people through propaganda, secrecy, constant surveillance, and harsh punishment.

When you know this, again: what do you think the quote means?

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The fact that two and two don’t always make four keeps reappearing in the book.

to perish: to die, to stop happening or existing

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Explain: “It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.”

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hat is the difference between a belief and a truth? If everybody believes it, does that make it W true?

Read on.

a heresy: a belief or action contrary to what is accepted.

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I tell you Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes*: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the party holds to be truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.

“How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.”

“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three.

Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”

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In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy* of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four?

Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

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The last chapter of 1984 makes the circle round.

Read and answer the questions.

George Orwell • 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 • real name Eric Arthur Blair • English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic • “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

to cauterise: to burn or freeze the flesh around a wound vile: horrible, unpleasant a clump: a thick grouping of trees or bushes a shrub: a plant of low height sallow: pale, unhealthy

He put the white knight back in its place, but for the moment he could not settle down to serious study of the chess problem. His thoughts wandered again.

Almost unconsciously he traced with his finger in the dust on the table: 2+2=5 ‘They can’t get inside you,’ she had said. But they could get inside you. ‘What happens to you here is FOR EVER,’ O’Brien had said. That was a true word.

There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover.

Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterised out*.

He had seen her; he had even spoken to her. There was no danger in it. He knew as though instinctively that they now took almost no interest in his doings. He could have arranged to meet her a second time if either of them had wanted to. Actually it was by chance that they had met. It was in the Park, on a vile*, biting day in March, when the earth was like iron and all the grass seemed dead and there was not a bud anywhere except a few crocuses which had pushed themselves up to be dismembered by the wind. He was hurrying along with frozen hands and watering eyes when he saw her not ten metres away from him.

It struck him at once that she had changed in some ill-defined way. They almost passed one another without a sign, then he turned and followed her, not very eagerly. He knew that there was no danger, nobody would take any interest in him. She did not speak. She walked obliquely away across the grass as though trying to get rid of him, then seemed to resign herself to having him at her side.

Presently they were in among a clump* of ragged leafless shrubs*, useless either for concealment or as protection from the wind. They halted. It was vilely cold.

The wind whistled through the twigs and fretted the occasional, dirty-looking crocuses. He put his arm round her waist.

There was no telescreen, but there must be hidden microphones: besides, they could be seen. It did not matter, nothing mattered. They could have lain down on the ground and done THAT if they had wanted to. His flesh froze with horror at the thought of it. She made no response whatever to the clasp of his arm; she did not even try to disengage herself. He knew now what had changed in her. Her face was sallower*, and there was a long scar, partly hidden by the hair, across her forehead and temple; but that was not the change. It was that her waist had grown thicker, and, in a surprising way, had stiffened. He remembered how once, after the explosion of a rocket bomb, he had helped to drag a corpse out of some ruins, and had been astonished not only by the incredible weight of the thing, but by its rigidity and awkwardness to handle, which made it seem more like stone than flesh. Her body felt like that. It occurred to him that the texture of her skin would be quite different from what it had once been.

He did not attempt to kiss her, nor did they speak. As they walked back across the grass, she looked directly at him for the first time. It was only a momentary glance, full of contempt and dislike. He wondered whether it was a dislike that came purely out of the past or whether it was inspired also by his bloated face and the water that the wind kept squeezing from his eyes. They sat down on two iron chairs, side by side but not too close together. He saw that she was about to speak. She moved her clumsy shoe a few centimetres and deliberately crushed a twig. Her feet seemed to have grown broader, he noticed.

‘I betrayed you,’ she said baldly.

‘I betrayed you,’ he said.

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She gave him another quick look of dislike.

‘Sometimes,’ she said, ‘they threaten you with something you can’t stand up to, can’t even think about. And then you say, “Don’t do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to so-and-so.” And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it.

But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself, and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way.

You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.’

‘All you care about is yourself,’ he echoed.

‘And after that, you don’t feel the same towards the other person any longer.’

‘No,’ he said, ‘you don’t feel the same.’

There did not seem to be anything more to say. The wind plastered their thin overalls against their bodies. Almost at once it became embarrassing to sit there in silence: besides, it was too cold to keep still. She said something about catching her Tube and stood up to go.

‘We must meet again,’ he said.

‘Yes,’ she said, ‘we must meet again.’ He followed irresolutely for a little distance, half a pace behind her. They did not speak again. She did not actually try to shake him off, but walked at just such a speed as to prevent his keeping abreast of her. He had made up his mind that he would accompany her as far as the Tube station, but suddenly this process of trailing along in the cold seemed pointless and unbearable.

He was overwhelmed by a desire not so much to get away from Julia as to get back to the Chestnut Tree Cafe, which had never seemed so attractive as at this moment. He had a nostalgic vision of his corner table, with the newspaper and the chessboard and the ever-flowing gin. Above all, it would be warm in there.

The next moment, not altogether by accident, he allowed himself to become separated from her by a small knot of people. He made a half-hearted attempt to catch up, then slowed down, turned, and made off in the opposite direction.

When he had gone fifty metres he looked back. The street was not crowded, but already he could not distinguish her. Any one of a dozen hurrying figures might have been hers. Perhaps her thickened, stiffened body was no longer recognisable from behind.

‘At the time when it happens,’ she had said, ‘you do mean it.’ He had meant it.

He had not merely said it, he had wished it. He had wished that she and not he should be delivered over to the Something changed in the music that trickled from the telescreen. A cracked and jeering* note, a yellow note, came into it. And then – perhaps it was not happening, perhaps it was only a memory taking on the semblance of sound – a voice was singing: ‘Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me ’ The tears welled up in his eyes. A passing waiter noticed that his glass was empty and came back with the gin bottle. (…) jeering: mocking, derisive blissful: happy

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Winston, sitting in a blissful* dream, paid no attention as his glass was filled up. He was not running or cheering any longer. He was back in the Ministry of Love, with everything forgiven, his soul white as snow. He was in the public

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dock, confessing everything, implicating everybody. He was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of walking in sunlight, and an armed guard at his back. The long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain.

Source: George Orwell, 1984

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He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

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he passage at 42c shows that the Party is very successful in what they are doing, the book calls it T ‘doublethinking’. What is this and how does it happen?

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What does Winston believe in the end?

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What do Winston and Julia do to each other? What does this tell you about the power of The Party?

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I n English you have the proverb ‘Mind over matter’. What do you think this proverb means?

Does this story prove that proverb to be true?

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hat do you believe? Is freedom the freedom to say two and two make four? Or is it the freedom to W say two and two make five?

Listen to the song 2 + 2 = 5 by Radiohead and answer the questions.

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hat other inaccuracies like two and two is five can you find in the W song?

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he subtitle of this song is Lukewarm (mildly warm, tepid). Why, do T you think this is?

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isten again. This time, don’t listen to the lyrics but to the music.

L What do you hear?

Discuss in groups. What would you do in the following situations?

• You accidentally find your sister’s diary.

• A neighbour in the apartment building across from you always gets undressed in full view of the window.

• You suspect your friend might be using drugs.

• Your teacher leaves the classroom, there is a file called ‘exams’ on the desk.

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You are Big Brother. Work in small groups.

Take turns to tell the group something (imaginary) you found out yesterday about school / your teacher.

The group will interrupt you after every two or three sentences with ‘I don’t believe you’.

Change your last sentence and continue the story. Can you make them all believe you?

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Read the text and underline the expressions that have the ‘private-inside’ and ‘information get ting out’ ideas. What do they mean exactly?

Of course, doctors try to keep all the mistakes they make behind closed doors. Hospital policy is everybody keeps his mouth shut, because everybody makes mistakes. But sometimes, these mistakes mean people get killed. Is it okay to keep your mouth shut even then? One nurse of the University hospital didn’t keep quiet. News got out that her boss had an affair with one of his patients. All the dirty details, like how he bought her an expensive purse and got a tattoo with her name got out. The whole affair leaked out through a so-called reliable source. This kind of inside information can only come from a close colleague, so the surgeon wanted the nurse he suspected fired. Now that the secret affair is out in the open, the surgeon’s wife wants a divorce. The nurse in question didn’t want to comment. She wants to keep the press out of her private life.

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Listen to Obama talking and answer the questions.

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What kind of ‘Big Brother’ is Obama talking about?

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How does he justify his actions?

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is biggest argument to justify it is H that the secret database is, in fact, not secret. Explain.

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xplain this statement: E “Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.”

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hat do you, as a non-US citizen, W think about what he says concerning the tracking of internet data?

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o you think this is Big Brother? Or D is it just media brouhaha?

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hat do you do to protect your W privacy with regard to internet and phone records?

Discuss these very different ‘Big Brothers’.

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Read the excerpt from The Rules by Stacey Kade and answer the questions.

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Never trust anyone.

Remember they are always searching.

Don’t get involved.

Keep your head down.

Don’t fall in love.

Five simple rules. Ariane Tucker has followed them since the night she escaped from the genetics lab where she was created, the result of combining human and extraterrestrial DNA. Ariane’s survival – and that of her adoptive father – depends on her ability to blend in among the full-blooded humans in a small Wisconsin town, to hide in plain sight at her high school from those who seek to recover their lost (and expensive) ‘project’.

Stacey Kade • also known as Stacey Klemstein • American Young Adult author from Chicago, Illinois • “Pretending to feel something you don’t can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.”

to jostle: to make one’s way by pushing or elbowing to shove: to push rudely or roughly jumbled: confused, mixed up homeroom: a school classroom where a class meets every day to be checked for attendance, receive school bulletins, etc. tater tots: fried slices of potatoes

Hearing thoughts is never like what you see on television or read in books. People don’t walk around thinking in complete sentences, let alone whole paragraphs of exposition.

If GTX’s experiment had continued after me, there would have been whole teams of people like me – all of us able to communicate silently with one another as we spied on the enemy or moved in for a kill.

But with untrained human minds, it was a mess.

Everybody shouting scattered words and phrases at the top of their lungs, essentially. And sometimes I only got pictures or feelings. It was hard to tell what was going on in someone’s head – on the rare occasions when I wanted to – especially when there were lots of people around, jostling* and shoving*, their minds as jumbled* and out of sorts as their bodies. … not me. Thank God. … just so mean … … makes me look fat. I know it.

This is going to be awesome!

If Mrs. McCafferty puts me in the front row again, I’m going to …

“Don’t you think?” Jenna asked, nudging me.

“Uh-huh,” I said, distracted. I wasn’t getting enough to piece it together. We were on the move, and so was everyone else, which made it impossible to isolate one mind. The best I could determine was that the people buzzing about whatever was going on were coming from the opposite direction. The people around us, slowly moving upstream in the hall, were still caught up in their mundane worries about homeroom* and what they were wearing.

Jenna laughed. “You spaced on me again, didn’t you?”

I grimaced. “Sorry. Just thinking things through.” Normally I would have let it go. The last time I’d sensed so many minds in an uproar, the cafeteria had been serving French fries on a Tater Tot day*. Who cares?

But this … this was different. It felt more personal, and I didn’t know why.

“Zane!” Jenna chirped, and bolted ahead of me.

Bradshaw was leaning against a wall, head and shoulders above everyone else, right at the intersection by our lockers.

A quick flash of weary patience crossed his face when he saw Jenna, but he

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to cringe: to move back slightly from something that is unpleasant or frightening benevolence: charity, generosity preparation H: brand of medications Source: Stacey Kade, The Rules

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hid it quickly enough that she didn’t catch it, thankfully. He greeted her civilly enough, and paid attention to whatever she was describing with great animation – lots of big hand motions, exaggerated expressions, and giggling.

Oh God, Jenna … No matter what had happened over the last week, one thing I could guarantee had not occurred was Zane Bradshaw developing a sudden interest in a girl he’d never acknowledged as alive before.

I cringed* in expectation of some humiliating putdown, but Zane just smiled down at Jenna with that same mildly exasperated benevolence* humans usually reserve for adorable puppies trying to chew their shoelaces.

We shouldn’t have done it.

The clarity of that single thought and the punch of accompanying shame from Zane blasted through the rest of the noise.

That’s when I got one image from Zane Bradshaw’s head loud and clear, no distortion.

A locker smeared with some kind of white paste, the words “Pain In My Ass” scrawled in flowing cursive at the top, flattened tubes of Preparation H* dangling from the ventilation slats where the contents had been squeezed inside … and Rachel’s smiling face.

Oh no. I knew her friendship with Jenna was too good to be true. Rachel had simply traded in the immediate pleasure of crushing Jenna for something a little more longterm and hateful.

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The main character has an ability we all’d love to have now and then. What is it?

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How come this character has this ability?

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Where is she?

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Why is that important, in regard to her ‘ability’.

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What do you learn about Zane?

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This is the beginning of the book. Do you think it is promising? Explain.

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Do you think reading people’s mind is the same as understanding them? Explain.

Watch the excerpt of Minority report and answer the questions.

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What kind of Big Brother are we talking about here?

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What are minority reports?

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What do these minority reports prove?

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What happens to these reports? Why? Do you agree?

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What is John Anderton’s problem?

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o you think this precrime system is right? Don’t we all sometimes D want to kill someone? How important is the difference between thinking about something and actually doing it?

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Discuss the privacy you have in the following situations.

Rank them from most to least private. What can you do to enhance (= improve) privacy?

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Imagine you are in a situation where you have absolutely no privacy.

Your every movement is watched via camera’s, the internet, cell phones …

You want to remind your friend that he has to feed the cat. You can’t do it as you are watched very closely and it is forbidden to have cats. You can’t text or call him, obviously.

What?

Why?

How?

Write a secret note.

To prove you can write texts and subtexts.

To prove you can be concise and to the point.

To prove you can be creative using language.

1) Brainstorm. What do you have to tell your friend? What can’t you tell your friend?

How can you get your message through anyway?

2) Try some draft versions of your note. Which one sounds good and natural? Which one is too farfetched (unbelievable, illogical) or too obvious?

3) Use your best version as a starting point. Try to make it better. What can you delete? What do you need to add? Leave it for a while and reread it. Are you still convinced this is the best you can do?

What matters? Your vocabulary and grammar

Your text and subtext

Your creativity

Your subtlety Think twice! Remember what’s at stake. Are you sure your note is not giving away too much?

Read the notes of your classmates. Which one do you like the most and why? Try to ‘steal’ its good points so you can use them too next time.

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Privacy

by Robert William Service

Robert William Service • 16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958 • England-born, Scotland-raised poet and writer • “Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.”

a reed: a tall, slender plant bold: fearless, courageous Source: Robert William Service, Bar-Room Ballads

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Oh you who are shy of the popular eye, (Though most of us seek to survive it) Just think of the goldfish who wanted to die Because she could never be private.

There are pebbles and reeds* for aquarium needs Of eel and of pike who are bold* fish; But who gives a thought to a sheltering spot For the sensitive soul of a goldfish?

So the poor little thing swam around in a ring, In a globe of a crystalline crudity; Swam round and swam round, but no refuge she found From the public display of her nudity; No weedy retreat for a cloister discreet, From the eye of the mob to exempt her; Can you wonder she paled, and her appetite failed,Till even a fly couldn’t tempt her?

I watched with dismay as she faded away; Each day she grew slimmer and slimmer.

From an amber hat burned, to a silver she turned Then swiftly was dimmer and dimmer.

No longer she gleamed, like a spectre she seemed, One morning I anxiously sought her: I only could stare – she no longer was there …

She’d simply dissolved in the water.

So when you behold bright fishes of gold, In globes of immaculate purity; Just think how they’d be more contented and free If you gave them a little obscurity.

And you who make laws, get busy because You can brighten he lives of untold fish, If its sadness you note, and a measure promote To Ensure Private Life For The Goldfish.

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Whose privacy is this poem about? Why this particular ‘person’?

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Explain: “There are pebbles and reeds for aquarium needs Of eel and of pike who are bold fish; But who gives a thought to a sheltering spot For the sensitive soul of a goldfish?”

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What happens when you have no privacy? What happens to the goldfish?

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The last four lines touch current news topics. Explain.

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ervice himself did not call his work poetry.

S “Verse, not poetry, is what I was after ... something the man in the street would take notice of and the sweet old lady would paste in her album; something the schoolboy would spout and the fellow in the pub would quote. Yet I never wrote to please anyone but myself; it just happened. I belonged to the simple folks whom I liked to please.” What do you think? Explain.

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Facial recognition

Read the text and answer the questions.

Big Brother is big business If you thought that facial recognition software was just some obscure, futuristic technology that only has real-life applications in sci-fi flicks* like ‘Minority Report’ and ‘Gattaca,’ think again. The ability of computers to identify faces has gotten 100 times better, a million times faster, and exponentially cheaper. They can track your whereabouts, mine your personal data, and even predict your social security number.

a flick: informal; a cinema film a drone: a pilotless aircraft operated by remote control surreptitious: sneaky, secret a brick-and-mortar business: a traditional business that does not operate on the Internet to leverage: to exert power or influence on Source: www.businessinsider.com

Carnegie Mellon’s science lab created a toy drone* outfitted with facial recognition software so advanced that it can identify a face from a far distance. The lab’s research is expected to take surveillance to a whole other level. The facial recognition software can either capture real people from its cameras or convert a flat image into a 3D model. The software maps people’s faces with dots and then creates a “faceprint” as unique as fingerprints. The image produced can be matched with pre-existing photos stored in databases.

Faceprints can be used for an individual’s security needs. For example, to make sure no one accesses private files on a mobile device, a user would be able to use his or her faceprint as the sole password.

But faceprints can also be used by advertisers.

Companies are developing digital billboards for shopping malls that surreptitiously* scan shoppers’ faces to determine gender and age.

Advertisers would use facial recognition in mall billboards, for example, to tailor its message to the specific consumer looking at the signage. In this instance, a teenage girl sees a shoe promotion held at a shop a few stores down.

But it’s not just billboards. Several national chains are installing facial recognition cameras in the eyes of mannequins to covertly profile their customers. Hitachi

is developing surveillance cameras that can detect its customers faces. Online companies are going to town building large data banks of faceprints which are filled with images retrieved from social media sites like Facebook and Instagram. They are developing ways to link our faces to our online profiles and shopping history.

A new app called Facedeals allows marketers to track consumers off-line as much as they do online. The company installs cameras at the entrance of brick-and-mortar* businesses that scan customers’ faces. If said customer opts into the app on Facebook and verifies his or her photograph, then Facedeals texts them about good deals while shopping inside.

According to Carnegie Mellon information technology and public policy professor Alessandro Acquisti, smart phones may make facial searches as common as Google searches. His research revealed that facial recognition software can sometimes even access social security numbers.

There are some counter-measures people can take to avoid getting scanned by surveillance cameras. Some people are overlaying their faces with patterns that interfere with face recognition algorithms.

To leverage* facial recognition technology, the FBI has installed rows of servers to store the world’s largest biometric database. So far, the initiative has cost them over a billion dollars. But don’t worry, you have to have a criminal record in order for the feds to legally save your image.

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Facial recognition uses a faceprint. What is this?

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What are the advantages of facial recognition?

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What are the disadvantages?

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How can you protect your faceprint?

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rotecting people against Big Brother on the internet is starting to become big business as well.

P Surf the internet and find at least two companies who provide this service. What does it cost?

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Do you think facial recognition is a good or a bad thing? Explain.

8 Digging deeper Formulating a research question

After you have decided on your topic, you formulate a research question.

Your research question defines what you are going to study about this topic. In a nutshell, a research question is important because it narrows down your research and prevents you from doing too much work.

To get a good question, you should ask yourself these things: 1) Do I know the topic well?

If you don’t know anything about your topic, you will have to do a lot of research before you are comfortable. Moreover, it will be much more difficult to answer the following questions.

This unit deals with blogging. So an assignment could be to do research about blogging.

Let’s assume you are a football fan. You may not know much about blogging, but you do know a thing or two about football. So you decide to link the two: your research will be about football blogs, as you know this topic. Since you know this topic well, you are well aware of the fact that people are always interested in it.

2) What are the important research questions in this field? What do people want to know about this topic?

As you are aware of what’s going on in football, you know people are always curious about transfers.

You narrow your topic: football blogs that talk about transfers.

3) Can my study fill a gap, lead to greater understanding?

You are curious how well in the know these bloggers are. Can they really predict transfers or even give scoops about important transfers?

You decide that’s the gap your research will fill: can football blogs really predict important transfers?

4) Has this study been done before?

If you think it will be easy, because you just have to copy-paste and alter some things, think again. If you pick a research question that has already been used, you will have to improve the previous research. Not an easy task.

You google your topic and don’t find recent research among the first hits you get. Now you are fairly confident you have a good research question: Can football blogs really predict important transfers and even give scoops?

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Now, everybody tells the class the topic they have chosen – not your research question!

Divide yourself into three groups, according to the topic that you chose.

Tell your teammates your research question. Brainstorm and change the question until you come up with one good research question you all agree on.

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Share your question with the other two groups.

Let them ask the ‘So what?’ question. Why should they be interested in your research? What’s in it for them? Whose research question ‘survives’?

Can you come up with a good hypothesis for your research to defend your question and make your classmates realise your research really is important? Is it a hot topic? Does it deal with a lot of money?

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You have one paragraph in which you not only explain your research question but you also make clear why this is a unique, important research question.

• addictions • shamelessness • politically incorrect jokes • swearing

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Work in groups, the teacher will divide the following topics among the groups.

Your headmaster wants to do a thorough research on the general well-being in your school to inform parents and students in general.

All the students from your grade are appointed to do a research on one of the topics below and write a critical blog of which the best blog entries will be published in the school newspaper.

• sanitary fittings (restrooms and sinks) • lunch break • sports • discipline • bullying What Writing a blog and summarising the entries in a research report.

Why? To prove you can deal with the registers of a blog and a research report.

To prove you can work in group.

To prove you can formulate a research questions and apply it.

To prove you can do research and convince people.

How? 1) Establish groups and divide the topics.

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2) Formulate a good research question about your topic. Consider what is dealt with in ‘Digging deeper’. Take notes while discussing your research question.

3) Summarise your notes and the research question in a first blog entry. Make sure this entry tells what you are about to investigate, how you are going to do that and why you chose this particular angle.

4) Divide the tasks in your group. Who is doing the research? Who is writing the blog entries? Who is writing the research report? How are you going to keep everybody up to date?

5) Make sure you write enough blog entries during the next two weeks.

6) Do your research. Use the library, internet, interviews …

7) Write your research report. Make sure all the other group members double-check it.

What about vocabulary, grammar, fluency, register?

8) Present your research report to your classmates. Can you convince them? Take notes of their feedback.

What matters? Make sure you use the appropriate register for the appropriate text.

Do your research thoroughly.

Make sure you have enough arguments to convince.

Remember a blog has to be interesting, amusing. You have to make your readers come back again. And again.

Think twice! Reread the notes you took during the feedback. What can you do better next time?

What are your strong points?

What did you learn about group dynamics? What kind of team member are you?

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hoose one of the people in the illustration. He receives a so-called ‘sext’ from Peeping Tom C showing Lady. What does he text back?

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hoose a character in the illustration and let it bring a monologue for your class.

C Can your classmates guess which character you have chosen?

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I magine Big Brother is watching you. You can use five objects in the illustration to misguide him.

Which objects do you chose and why?

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You are writing a blog about the beach that is depicted. What do you write?

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rite down three differences and three similarities between the Lady Godiva in this illustration and W the one in the poem you discussed.

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Discuss the nudity. Do you think people behave appropriately? Explain.

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Which character do you think reveals the most about him / herself? Explain.

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Describe this illustration in one paragraph. Use at least ten signal words.

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Discuss the faces in the illustration. What do they tell you?

10) Imagine one of the characters is Big Brother in disguise. Who would he / she be? Why?

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Focus on …

I know and can use vocabulary about nudity.

p. 7 – 15 ex. 1 – 12

I know and can use vocabulary about blogging.

p. 21 – 28 ex. 23 – 38

I know and can use vocabulary about big brother.

p. 30 – 38 ex. 42 – 53

The basics I know and can use signal words.

p. 16 – 19 ex. 13 – 16

I know and can use the past tenses.

ex. 3 1, 32, 39, 40, 44, 45

On speaking terms I know and can use the appropriate idioms that have to do with privacy and revealing.

p. 20 – 21 ex. 19 – 22

Bibliography Exercise 3b Tennyson, L.A. (1840). Godiva. Retrieved from http://www. online-literature.com/tennyson/4076/ Exercise 12 Sandbu, M. (2013). Britain should not fear fiscal voyeurism.

Financial Times. Retrieved from http://www.ft.com/ cms/s/0/51fc64de-83df-11e1-82ca-00144feab49a. html#axzz33f1QosFk Exercise 14 - Knapp, R., Lehmberg, J. (1901). The bare facts about Greek art. Museum Guides for Kids, Greek & Roman Art. Worcester: Davis Publications, Inc. - Museum of Art and Archeology. Addressing nudity in art.

Retrieved from http://www.docucu.com/view/6b69a2f1a8 d5b7c6c746ca7674ab0126/ADDRESSING-NUDITY-INART-Museum-of-Art.doc Exercise 15 Streep, P. (2012). Are you a digital voyeur? Tech Support.

Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ tech-support/201205/are-you-digital-voyeur Exercise 17 Spiegelman, A. (2003). The complete Maus. London: Penguin books.

Exercise 24 Kraska, W. (2005). What makes a good blog? This is not a blog. Retrieved from: http://journalism.nyu.edu/ publishing/archives/notablog/story/good_blog/ Exercise 33 Herbert, W.A. (2011). Workplace consequences of electronic exhibitionism and voyeurism. Technology and Society Magazine, 30 (3). New York: City University of New York, Hunter College.

Exercise 42 Orwell, G. (1949). 1984. London: Secker and Warburg.

Exercise 49 Kade, S. (2013). The Rules. Project Paper Doll #1. New York: Hyperion Books.

Exercise 53 Service, R.W. (1940). Privacy. Bar-Room Ballads. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.

Exercise 54 Grey, J. (2013). Inside The Orwellian World Of Ad-Funded Face-Recognition Technology. Business Insider. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/advertisers-usingfacial-recognition-technology-2013-5?op=1

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6) The news ... and soon everybody knew about it.

7) What is the source of that ... ?

8) I am ... you told everyone about my secret!

13) What is the ... of that claim?

16) I’d like to ... that I am not sure about this claim.

Down 1) This is a secret, it stays ... .

2) The secret ... via mail.

3) This news is ... , you have a preview.

4) No secrets, I want to ... .

9) That is not a ... source, he is a liar!

10) We want to ... your claim.

11) I feel ... now everybody knows my secret.

12) I will ... everything! And they will think you are a liar.

14) Do you like to ... in people’s lives?

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Make correct combinations.

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15) 16) 17) 18) 19) 20) 21) 22) 23) 24) 25) 26) 27) 28) 29) 30) 31) 32)

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a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) j) k) l) m) n) o) p) q) r) s) t) u) v) w) x) y) z) aa) bb) cc) dd) ee) ff)

That is … , you don’t like art?

He is about to kill him, I can see his … .

I … by yelling.

The apples … in the sunlight.

She … her belt.

I want to … the dough in the form of a circle.

I can really … in chocolate.

I … your behavior. It’s horrible!

No bathroom, you are … .

A virgin is proud of her ... .

That secret … everyone.

The … of that offer! He just wants to get our money!

That’s the … , I swear!

You can’t … your friends like that! You should pay them!

He doesn’t want to see or speak me, … is all I get.

That’s your … , you don’t have any proof!

There was some … about their split.

In Finland there is a … everywhere.

A password guarantees your … .

The model was … except for underwear.

The hotel has a … for the guests.

Tabloids are an example of ... .

That’s not supposed to happen, that is an … .

You can’t … a public secret.

No need to bring clothes to a … .

You can’t see it with the … , you need a magnifying glass.

He … himself as gay.

I … my own happiness.

He … , he has no shame.

Neglecting their friendship, that’s … !

In the … the colour is completely different!

You want me to kill him for nothing? That’s a … !

What do you see? blog – entry – post – tweet – MAB – commenter – topic – community – readership – visitor – comment – microblogging – cyber stalking – blogosphere – internet troll – follower – digital trail – recipient – popular – to decline – to unmask – to distribute – to blog

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Complete. Use the correct tense.

There (to be – 1) a lot of brouhaha last week about the so called ‘naked truth’ claims. Earlier this month we ( to report – 2) about the blog of some college students who ‘investigated’ the past of their tutors. They (to put – 3) all the sordid details they could find online, for everyone to enjoy it. They (to do – 4) so without any problem, because the ‘attacked’ tutors were too afraid they would be suspended if their sordid secrets (to become – 5) public. They somehow (to forget – 6) the internet is public. And many students (to enjoy – 7) this kind of shameless voyeurism.

“I (to cook – 8) dinner when the door bell (to ring – 9),” tells head principal Jimmy Jones. “I (to open – 10) the door to find one of my teachers, in tears. It was past midnight before she finally (to tell – 11) me all about what was happening. Of course, this (to be- 12) unacceptable. The students (to face -13) the consequences of their actions. I (to see – 14) them and their parents first thing in the morning. And I (to meet – 15) with my lawyers within an hour. This has to stop immediately.”

The students (to be – 16) fairly relaxed so far. “We (not to do – 17) anything wrong. We (not to put – 18) any lies on our blog. We just (to want – 19) to get as many followers as possible, that’s why we (to choose – 20) this focus. And we (to succeed – 21). More than 60% of the students (to read – 22) our posts. Currently, I also (to write – 23) a blog about strange habits,” Nora Emmerson explains. “I just (to love – 24) writing and plan (to be – 25) a journalist one day.”

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Complete. Use the past simple.

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you (to take) my jacket?

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I (not to answer) your phone!

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They (not to pay) me back.

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I (not to love) you, I (to love) Amy.

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I (to hate) anniversaries.

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You (to present) our project.

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He (to forget) to feed the cat.

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She (not to belong) here.

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You (to bump) into Margaret yesterday.

10) We (to mark) the date on the calendar.

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she – never to forgive – you

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you – to ruin – my day

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we – to alter – the colour

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I – to change – the locks

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the boy – to colour – the wall

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they – to knock – on the door

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you – to meet him – yesterday?

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he – to clean – his mess?

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10) they – not to receive – it

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She cooks dinner.

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They don’t agree.

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He turns her in.

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She rips the page.

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I answer the question.

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Do we visit Berlin?

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Do you cheat on her?

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You question my authority.

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I don’t spill milk.

10) We decide to wait.

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Write down the infinitives of the irregular verbs.

When I woke up this morning, I found my cat sitting on my bed. She wanted me to give her food. I was hungry too, so I first had breakfast. I had a glass of milk and some cereal. But the cat knocked over my milk so she could drink it. While I was cleaning the mess, she was eating my cereal. I got angry and gave the cat her food. Then I washed my teeth and put on my socks and shoes. I wore my heavy coat, because it was really cold outside. My cat left the house together with me and we both walked towards the bus stop. I hopped onto the bus, my cat disappeared into the bushes. Once on the bus, I noticed one of my sleeves was wet with milk.

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Complete, using a past simple. Why do you use the past simple in the following sentences? a) To talk about single momentary past events that are completely over. b) To narrate a sequence of actions to tell a story. c) To talk about things that happened over a period of time in the past.

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Celia (to cook) herself dinner.

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Keith (to hurt) his foot.

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She (to live) most of her life in Canada.

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They (to laugh), (to walk) away and (to step) into their car.

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She (to carry) a watermelon.

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We (to call), (to yell) and (to leave) when nobody answered.

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She (to work) here the first part of her life.

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She (to stop) answering his calls.

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They (to travel) through Australia for ten years.

10) We (to buy) you a gift, (to visit) you and (to listen) to your stories!

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Words unit 1 Nudity an anomaly avoidance a brouhaha chastity indecency a naturist camp privacy a sauna a secluded beach voyeurism

A password guarantees your … .

In Finland there is a … everywhere.

The hotel has a … for the guests.

een afwijking ontwijking een heisa kuisheid onfatsoenlijkheid een nudistencamping privacy een sauna een privéstrand

Tabloids are an example of ... .

voyeurisme

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The model was … except for underwear.

That’s your … , you don’t have any proof!

naked eye naked light naked of comfort a wall naked of paintings naked order naked sword naked truth shameless

You can’t see it with the … , you need a magnifying glass.

In the … the colour is completely different!

No bathroom, you are …

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That’s not supposed to happen, that is an … .

He doesn’t want to see or speak me, … is all I get.

There was some … about their split.

A virgin is proud of her ... .

The … of that offer! He just wants to get our money!

No need to bring clothes to a … .

That is … , you don’t like art?

You want me to kill him for nothing? That’s a …!

He is about to kill him, I can see his …

That’s the …, I swear!

Neglecting their friendship, that’s …!

muur zonder schilderijen bevel zonder meer ontbloot zwaard naakte waarheid schaamteloos

I … your behaviour. It’s horrible!

You can’t … your friends like that! You should pay them!

I … by yelling.

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I can really … in chocolate.

He … , he has no shame.

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He … himself as gay.

I … my own happiness.

I want to … the dough in the form of a circle.

That secret … everyone.

The apples … in the sunlight.

She … her belt.

You can’t … a public secret.

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Blogging a blog a blogosphere a comment

She has a very popular … about books.

All blogs and their interconnections are called … .

That … on my post is just unfair!

a commenter a community cyberstalking a digital trail a disclosure an entry a follower an internet homicide an internet troll a MAB (MultiAuthor-Blog) a message microblogging a phenomenon a post a readership

That … is horrible. There’s not a thing he likes!

The followers of that blog really form a … .

You keep sending me emails, that’s … !

You always leave a … on the internet.

The … of that secret was terrible, even the press was present.

The last … on that blog is dated years ago!

Her blog has more than 3000 … . … does exist. The world wide web really can kill you.

een blog een blogosfeer een commentaar, bericht een commentator een gemeenschap cyberstalking een digitaal spoor een onthulling een bericht een volger, fan een internetmoord

An … is a cyberbully.

The three of them have a … about football.

een internettrol een teamblog

I didn’t get your … – I mailed you and I called you!

Twitter is a kind of … .

J.K. Rowling is a … .

That’s an interesting … about cyber dating.

The … of that blog is immense. She has more than 10000 people following her.

You were not the … of that message!

The … of this blog is soup.

I hate … about the weather.

How many … has your website?

een bericht microblogging een fenomeen een bericht een lezerskring een een een een

dedicated popular

She is so … she writes a message every day.

Her followers adore her, she is … !

toegewijd populair

to to to to to to to

I … about cars.

The quality of his messages is … .

Can you … the difference between black and grey?

Did you … that gossip?

I … a message on your blog!

I want to … a comment.

I want to … that internet troll!

bloggen achteruit gaan onderscheiden verspreiden plaatsen voorleggen ontmaskeren

a a a a

recipient topic tweet visitor

blog decline distinguish distribute post submit unmask

ontvanger onderwerp tweet bezoeker

Big Brother a claim a source

What is the source of that … ?

What is the … of that claim?

een bewering een bron

behind closed doors embarrassed exposed reliable soon-to-bereleased unconfirmed violated

This is a secret, it stays … .

The claim is … so far.

His … trust makes him angry.

achter gesloten deuren beschaamd blootgesteld betrouwbaar binnenkort bekendgemaakt onbevestigd geschonden

to add

I’d like to … that I am not sure about this claim.

toevoegen

I am … you told everyone about my secret!

I feel … now everybody knows my secret.

That is not a … source, he is a liar!

This news is … , you have a preview.

Unit 1 Peeping Tom

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to be out in the open to deny to keep someone out of your private life to leak out the news got out to pry (into something) to support

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Unit 1 Peeping Tom

No secrets, I want to be … .

I will … everything! And they will think you are a liar.

I want to … , you are no longer a friend.

The secret … via mail.

The … and soon everybody knew about it.

in de openbaarheid treden ontkennen iemand uit je privéleven houden

Do you like to … into people’s lives?

lekken het nieuws kwam uit gluren, neuzen

We want to … your claim.

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