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Police Bust Biggest Ever Paedophile Ring (17th March, 2011)An international police operation has shut down the largest Internet paedophile ring ever discovered. Police officers rescued 60 children in Britain and a further 170 children in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US. The team was led by Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). The operation leader, UK police chief Peter Davies, said: "In the UK alone 60 children have been safeguarded and 121 offenders arrested of which there have been 33 convictions. Investigations across the world continue." The arrests have come after three years of surveillance and monitoring of suspected paedophiles. He said the network was based in the Netherlands and had 70,000 members. The head of Europol Rob Wainright called the arrests a “spectacular international police success”. He had a message for paedophiles: "If you think you can use the Internet to abuse children you are wrong," he said. He added: "We will not allow these offenders to carry on committing these awful crimes against young children. We will not rest until we have identified every offender that has been active in this network and others that might be operating on the Internet." The police forces uncovered the ring by using officers to infiltrate the site to identify the most active members. One of the early breakthroughs was in 2008 when two British men were caught uploading images in Thailand. WARM-UPS1. KIDS’ SAFETY AND THE INTERNET: Walk around the class and talk to other students about kids’ safety and the Internet. Change partners often. Sit with your first partner(s) and share your findings. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. 3. INTERNET SAFETY: Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners and share what you wrote. Change and share again.
4. PAEDOPHILE RINGS: Students A strongly believe they will disappear in the future; Students B strongly believe they won’t. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 5. CHLD SAFETY: What are the biggest dangers? Rank these and share your rankings with your partner. Put the most dangerous at the top. Change partners and share your rankings again.
6. NETWORK: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word ‘network’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. BEFORE READING / LISTENING1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.
3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)
WHILE READING / LISTENINGGAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.
LISTENING – Listen and fill in the gapsAn international __________________________ shut down the largest Internet paedophile ring ever discovered. Police officers rescued 60 children in Britain __________________________ children in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US. __________________________ Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). The operation leader, UK police chief Peter Davies, said: "In the UK alone 60 children have __________________________ 121 offenders arrested of which there have been 33 convictions. Investigations __________________________." The arrests have come after three years of surveillance and monitoring of suspected paedophiles. Mr Davies said __________________________ in the Netherlands and had 70,000 members. The head of Europol Rob Wainright __________________________ “spectacular international police success”. He had a message for paedophiles: "If you think you can use the Internet __________________________ are wrong," he said. He added: "We will not allow these offenders to carry on __________________________ crimes against young children. We will not rest until we have identified every __________________________ active in this network and others that might be operating on the Internet." The police forces uncovered the ring by using officers __________________________ to identify the most active members. One of the early breakthroughs was in 2008 when two British men __________________________ images in Thailand.
AFTER READING / LISTENING1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘police’ and ‘operation’.
2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…? 4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings. 5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:
KIDS’ SAFETY AND THE INTERNET SURVEYWrite five GOOD questions about kids’ safety and the Internet in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.
KIDS’ SAFETY ON THE INTERNET DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
LANGUAGE – MULTIPLE CHOICEAn international police (1) ____ has shut down the largest Internet paedophile ring ever discovered. Police officers rescued 60 children in Britain and a further 170 children in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US. The team was (2) ____ by Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). The operation leader, UK police chief Peter Davies, said: "In the UK (3) ____ 60 children have been safeguarded and 121 offenders arrested (4) ____ which there have been 33 (5) ____. Investigations across the world continue." The arrests have come after three years of surveillance and (6) ____ of suspected paedophiles. Mr Davies said the network was based in the Netherlands and had 70,000 members. The head of Europol Rob Wainright called the arrests a “(7) ____ international police success”. He had a message for paedophiles: "If you think you can use the Internet to (8) ____ children you are wrong," he said. He added: "We will not allow these offenders to carry on committing these (9) ____ crimes against young children. We will not rest until we have identified every offender that has been active in this network and (10) ____ that might be operating on the Internet." The police forces uncovered the ring by using officers to infiltrate the site to (11) ____ the most active members. One of the early breakthroughs was in 2008 when two British men were (12) ____ uploading images in Thailand. Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
WRITINGWrite about kids’ safety and the Internet for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ HOMEWORK1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about kids’ safety and the Internet. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson. 3. KIDS’ SAFETY AND THE INTERNET: Make a poster about how to keep kids safe on the Internet. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things? 4. ONLINE DANGERS: Write a magazine article about the dangers kids face online. Include imaginary interviews with people who are for and against it. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s). 5. LETTER: Write a letter to an online safety expert. Ask him/her three questions about keeping kids safe on the Internet. Give him/her three suggestions on how to make the Internet a safer place for children. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions. ANSWERSTRUE / FALSE:
SYNONYM MATCH:
PHRASE MATCH:
GAP FILL: Police bust biggest ever paedophile ringAn international police (1) operation has shut down the largest Internet paedophile ring (2) ever discovered. Police officers rescued 60 children in Britain and a (3) further 170 children in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US. The team was (4) led by Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). The operation leader, UK police chief Peter Davies, said: "In the UK alone 60 children have been (5) safeguarded and 121 offenders arrested of which there have been 33 convictions. Investigations (6) across the world continue." The arrests have come after three years of surveillance and monitoring of suspected paedophiles. Mr Davies said the network was (7) based in the Netherlands and had 70,000 (8) members. The head of Europol Rob Wainright (9) called the arrests a “spectacular international police success”. He had a message for paedophiles: "If you think you can use the Internet to (10) abuse children you are wrong," he said. He added: "We will not (11) allow these offenders to carry on committing these (12) awful crimes against young children. We will not rest until we have identified every offender that has been active in this network and others that might be (13) operating on the Internet." The police forces uncovered the ring by using officers to infiltrate the site to (14) identify the most (15) active members. One of the early breakthroughs was in 2008 when two British men were (16) caught uploading images in Thailand. LANGUAGE WORK
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