Victims of Cyberbullies

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 420.

Supply the correct form of the verbs given in brackets and perform the role play given below.

Role play

Role 1. You are Gerald Grey, the author of the article given above. Now you are going to write a similar article about the situation in Russia. You are talking to a group of Moscow students. Find out all the information you'll need. (Childhood, dependence on parents, working mothers – childcare, life expectancy, pensioners, etc.)

Roles 2, 3, 4. Answer the questions of the journalist.

More than one in 10 British teenagers (1) _______________ (to be) victims of bullying online, according to a survey. Many of the 500 teenagers surveyed said they (2) ________________ (to receive) threatening e-mails, while more than a quarter said somebody (3) _____________ (to publish) misleading information about them on the web.

Since increasing numbers of teenagers now (4) ____________ (to use) instant messaging and websites to keep in contact, the threat of cyberbullying constantly (5) ________________ (to rise), experts say. “It is a huge problem – probably even grater than the figures suggest,” says Liz Carnell of Bullying Online.

Experts (6) ______________ (to see) many kinds of abuse on the web, ranging from rude e-mails to complex operations such as manipulating photos, sometimes taken secretly using mobile phones. Schools in Hertfordshire (7) ________________ (to confront) a particularly vicious online campaign, in which anonymous users (8) _____________ (to invite) to discuss and attack named victims on website forums.

Like ordinary bullying, the online version can often be dangerous and sometimes even result in suicides among depressed teenagers.

(From ‘The Guardian', abridged)