tailieunhanh - Study English-Epispde 1: Electronic crime p3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'study english-epispde 1: electronic crime p3', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | TRANSCRIPT EPISODE 1 ELECTRONIC CRIME Hello. I m Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English IELTS preparation. In this series we look at the skills you ll need to write formal academic English and you ll have the chance to listen to people talking about topics you ll find at colleges and universities. In today s episode we re going to hear someone talking about a new type of crime -electronic crime. Listen carefully to this police officer. Then we re going to look at word families and do some spelling. It is a new frontier and there are old traditional forms of crime being committed electronically and via computers and the internet but there are also new crime types emerging. Electronic crime really does cross over a whole range of different crime types. You can imagine stalking offences that may be facilitated via email harassment threatening emails small-scale fraud offences right up through to large-scale frauds committed via the internet. OK so let s have a closer look at that clip. We re going to focus on vocabulary building and word groups but first listen again to this sentence. See if you can hear the keyword the main subject of the sentence. It is a new frontier and there are old traditional forms of crime being committed electronically and via computers and the internet. He says there are old traditional forms of crime being committed electronically. The keyword is crime . That s what the sentence is about. Crime is a noun. We say that a crime is committed or done. To commit a crime is to do something illegal. Let s have a closer look at the word crime . In English many words can change to have different uses. In this way they form word groups. Learning words groups is an excellent way to build your vocabulary. You should write them down in a table like this showing adjectives nouns verbs and adverbs. 0 I INSEARCH o technolmysydney Page 1 of 5 Of course there are often at least 2 different sorts of nouns - nouns for things and nouns for people. Let s have a