PACE WORK 08/10/20

Тема:Сфера бізнесу. Банки.

THE ARTICLE

Police have prevented a huge online bank robbery attempt from taking place over the Internet. Thieves planned to steal $534million from a London branch of Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui bank. The robbers planned to send the money electronically to 10 different bank accounts around the world. They used special hacking software that could record the sequence of keystrokes that computer users made on their keyboards. This made it easy for the gang to find bank account numbers, passwords, and other confidential information to find out which customers had the most money. One member of the gang supposedly worked at Sumitomo and installed the keystroke-reading software onto the bank’s computers.

 A public relations officer from the Tokyo branch of the bank said no money had been stolen. He said the bank’s IT security staff told British police last October that they suspected they were under attack. Detectives from Britain’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit then started investigating. They arrested a 32-year-old Israeli man yesterday in connection with the planned robbery. Police are questioning him now in Tel Aviv and expect to make more arrests. They have warned all banks and businesses to take extra care of their computer security, as cyber criminals are becoming more and more skilled.

4.1 PRE-READING

1. WORD SEARCH: Students look in their dictionaries / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … of the words ‘bank’ and ‘robbery’.

2. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the headline and guess whether these sentences are true or false:

Internet thieves stole millions of dollars from a bank.  T / F

Bank robbers planned to send the money to different countries by air mail.  T / F

Hackers used software to record the order in which computer keys were pressed.  T/ F

One member of the gang was thought to be an insider at the bank.  T / F

A public relations officer from the bank said a lot of money was stolen.  T / F

The bank’s IT people guessed something was happening last October.  T / F

No one has been arrested yet in connection with the robbery.  T / F

Cyber criminals are becoming more and more skilled.  T / F

4.2 WHILE READING

1. GAP-FILL:  Put the words on the right into the gaps.

Internet bank robbery plan foiled

Police have __________ a huge online bank robbery attempt from taking place over the Internet. Thieves __________ to steal $534million from a London branch of Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui bank. The robbers planned to send the money electronically to 10 different bank accounts around the world. They used special hacking software that could __________ the sequence of keystrokes that computer users made on their keyboards. This made it easy for the gang to find bank account numbers, passwords, and other __________ information to find out which customers had the most money. One member of the gang supposedly worked at Sumitomo and __________ the keystroke-reading software onto the bank’s computers.  

record

installed

planned

prevented

confidential

 

A public relations officer from the Tokyo branch of the bank said no money had been __________. He said the bank’s IT security staff told British police last October that they __________ they were under attack. Detectives from Britain’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit then started __________. They arrested a 32-year-old Israeli man yesterday in connection with the planned robbery. Police are __________ him now in Tel Aviv and expect to make more __________. They have warned all banks and businesses to take extra care of their computer security, as cyber criminals are becoming more and more skilled.

arrests

investigating

stolen

questioning

suspected

2. TRUE/FALSE:  Students check their answers to the T/F exercise.

3. SYNONYMS:  Students check their answers to the synonyms exercise.

4. PHRASE MATCH:  Students check their answers to the phrase match exercise.

5. QUESTIONS: Students make notes for questions they would like to ask the class about the article.

6. VOCABULARY:  Students circle any words they do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find the meanings.

4.3 POST READING

1. GAP-FILL: Check the answers to the gap-fill exercise.

2. QUESTIONS:  Students ask the discussion questions they thought of above to their partner / group / class. Pool the questions for all students to share.

3. VOCABULARY: As a class, go over the vocabulary students circled above.

4. STUDENT-GENERATED SURVEY: Pairs/Groups write down 3 questions based on the article. Conduct their surveys alone. Report back to partners to compare answers. Report to other groups / the whole class.

5. ‘BANK’ / ‘ROBBERY’: Students make questions based on their findings from pre-reading activity #1.

6. DISCUSSION:

What was interesting in this article?

Were you surprised by anything in this article?

Do you trust banks?

Why did you join the bank you use?

Do you ever ask banking staff about the bank’s security?

Do you trust online banking?

Do you use a credit card for Internet shopping?

Do you use a credit card for normal shopping (in real stores)?

Is your credit card information safer over a secure Internet connection from Amazon.com, or a telephone modem connection from Joe’s bookstore?

Are your passwords / PIN numbers easy to guess?

Do you ever forget your passwords / PIN numbers?

What kind of confidential information do you give out over the Internet?

Do you always complete the fields for address, telephone number, marital status etc?

Is cash safer than electronic money (e-money)?

Are you worried about cyber crime?

Are hackers smarter than IT security experts?

Should banks make us choose more / longer passwords?

Did you like this discussion?

Teacher / Student additional questions.