Prime Time 7/8, Language in Use, Arbeitsheft

Language in use: How big brother spies on pupils You are going to read a text about school surveillance. Some words are missing from the text. Choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for each gap (1–10) in the text. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. Lockdown High , a new book by Annette Fuentes, cites cases of school … (0) that are mind-boggling: A student from Arizona strip-searched because Ibuprofen, a widely used painkiller, was not allowed under her school rules; the school in Texas where teachers can carry … (Q1) handguns; and the Philadelphia school that gave its pupils laptops equipped with a secret feature allowing them to be … (Q2) on outside classroom hours. Just about all the schools Fuentes writes about are united by a belief in the principle of “… (Q3) tolerance”. And, as she sees it, their neurotic emphasis on security has plenty of negative results: It renders the atmosphere in schools tense and fragile, and threatens to define young people’s life chances at an early age – because, as she puts it, “suspensions and academic failure are strong predictors of entry into the criminal justice system”. There is also, of course, the small matter of personal … (Q4) . It would be comforting to think of all this as a peculiarly American phenomenon. But in the UK, we seem almost as keen on turning schools into authoritarian fortresses. One in seven schools has insisted on students being fingerprinted. Security systems based on face … (Q5) have already been piloted in ten schools, and on-site police officers are now a common feature of the education system. Most omnipresent of all are … (Q6) cameras: 85% of secondary schools are reckoned to use them, even in changing rooms and toilets. Now, as the surveillance state embeds itself in the lives of millions of children, the education bill currently making its way through parliament promises to extend teachers’ powers to search pupils. Teachers will be able not just to … (Q7) phones and computers, but … (Q8) them of any data if they think there “is a good reason to do so”, thereby giving them new powers to … (Q9) pupils and issue summary expulsions. Education secretary Michael Gove casts all this as a matter of common sense. “Our bill will put heads and teachers back in control, giving them a range of tough new powers to deal with bullies and the most … (Q10) pupils,” he said last year, before he used a very telling phrase: “Heads will be able to take a zero-tolerance approach.” (John Harris, The Guardian , 9 June 2011; adapted and abridged) 0 A surveillance B examination C spying D negligence Q1 A unwrapped B concealed C masked D sheltered Q2 A spied B spotted C observed D overheard Q3 A nil B nought C zero D blank Q4 A sanctuary B privacy C disguise D isolation Q5 A sensibility B acceptance C admission D recognition Q6 A guard B safeguard C safeness D security Q7 A seize B embrace C lay hands D release Q8 A wipe B remove C clean off D clarify Q9 A abandon B forsake C restrain D prevent Q10 A courteous B painful C disruptive D combative 0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 A 2 / ✔ 90 Science and technology 18 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv