BBC News Review: Is your phone safe from hackers?
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Date: 2020-09-18
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Hello and welcome to News Review the program where we show you how to use language from the latest News stories in your everyday English.
Hello, I'm Neil, joining me is Catherine. Hello Catherine? Hello Neil.
What's our story today?
Our story today is telling us how your mobile devices could be putting you in danger.
Oh Dear, that sounds very serious. Let's hear more from this BBC News Report.
So, today's story there is about devices meaning mobile phone ,fitness trackers
all the kind of things that a lot of people carry with them and use everyday.
but there's a problem that people ,criminals can access your data through these devices and potentially use that information to get money from you basically.
well, ok, you've been looking at this story on the various news websites and picked out three words that we can use to talk about it.
yes, we have rise of, held to ransom, and targeting.
so, first one rise of how is that appearing in the headlines?
ok, we'll go to the BBC news website. and we have
Cyber security: Experts warn on rise of hacker ransoms
So, rise of meaning growth of a significant or powerful phenomenon
yeah, rise just basically means growth or increase as we know
yes, this is all about the proposition, isn't it?
because we know what rise means, increase, ah,, but rise of..
yeah, it's often , sometimes you can have a rise in something and that often means rise in numbers, rise in the rates , and it's really recording.
when you say rise in ,it's often just saying there's more of something.
but when we say rise of we then the thing that we're talking about has the idea of it's influencing, increase that influences the way people behave.
and it's often a significant increase causing a big impact on what happens.
it's sort of phenomenon or movement.
so, in this case the rise of hacker ransoms means that
we happen to change that what we do, because of this increasing hacker ransoms.
and there's a sense that this thing is kind of new or of significance now.
yeah, it might have, sometimes we use rise of ,because something wasn't really
,it happened a lot in the past and then it stopped ,then it happens again.
but the idea is some kind of phenomenon that really have an influence on the things we do.
like cyber crime, like technology all of the things that happened because of the rise of the technology.
yeah. the rise of technology is a good set phrase to think about
and it's really changed the way we live , rise of the smartphone,. and we have sometimes film titles , I think rise of ( ) rise of the machines of film titles
that shows us something is coming to be powerful and significant.
and we can use it not just for phenomenon for social things that changed in society.
and we can also use it for people when somebody becomes very powerful
we can talk about the rise of this person.
for example, Donald Trump
the rise of Donald Trump, he's become very powerful and influensial recently
so we can look at him in history and say yeah, he's become more powerful
it's rise of Donald Trump.
ok, moving on to our next headline.
The telegraph, Smartphones, TVs and watches could be held to ransom by hackers ,cyber security chiefs warn.
So, held to ransom ,made to do something by threats.
yeah, if we look at the sort of original meaning of to hold somebody's ransom
what you do is you take somebody's family member and you lock them ( ) somewhere
and then you say give me some money ,so you can have your family member back.
that's its original meaning. it's related to kidnap.
the money you pay to release the kidnapped person is a ransom.
yes, but we haven't got people involved here. have we? it's information.
It's information , absolutely. in fact, they're saying here there's a actual device
smartphones, your TV, your watches, so when hacker gets into your data and says
give me some money or I'll delete your photographs. or I've locked your phone. give me some money and I'll unlock it. and that money again is called a ransom
and it's usually money and can be an action ,you can ask someone to do something to get this information back.
but it's the idea of payment because you've taken something away.
like a lot of these expressions ,they start off with very specific meaning and then they expand ,don't they? exactly
so you can actually use it in a quite light hearted humorous way.
You can, yes.
for example , you've held me to ransom the other day.
I did, I did, yes, I did, because I knew you wanted me to help with your vocabulary program. and I'd got all that stuff ready to help you.
but first, I wanted you to help me with my grammar program.
and you're not gonna help me until then.
No, I'm holding you to ransom.
You're holding me to ransom.
I like doing that.
yes, thank you.
Our next item of vocabulary . we have targeting
yes, I'm going to go to ( ) and their headline is
Cyber security chiefs warn over hackers targeting smart phones, watches and fitness devices
and before we look at targeting, we'll just have a quick look at smartphone
it's written as two words in this news paper. in another one ,it was one word.
yeah, that often happens, it's as a compound noun where two words become one word
and in that process of becoming a new word , sometimes you see variations
so you see it's written with two words ,sometimes with a hyphen.
and then eventually usually it just becomes one word.
and you can see that process because of its spell, it's written differently on different websites. they're not wrong. they're just ,it's part of process of language.
So, targeting ,Catherine, I like darts.
we throw a small arrow at the target.
yes, artillery or bow and arrow and you try to hit something
I'm actually now with my pen targeting your face, if I ,your face is the target.
I'm gonna, go on uhh, I missed the target.
anyways target is something that you throw or aim something at.
and in that case ,we can have it literally ,your face was the target.
or you can use it as a verb metaphorically to say I'm aiming or my goal is to do something.
something's directing something at something.
yes, absolutely, and the hackers are targeting the smartphones.
so , hackers are aiming at getting into people's smartphones.
and we use this when we're talking about advertising campaigns or television programs.
most definitely. it's used in a lot of advertising. when we say that particular adverts are targeted at particular people for example , a lot of daytime television is targeted at women or retired people.
because a lot of them stay at home watching TV.
and This program is targeted at international learners of English.
Exactly.
and we hope we're hitting our target.
I hope we are.
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Hello and welcome to News Review the program where we show you how to use language from the latest News stories in your everyday English.
Hello, I'm Neil, joining me is Catherine. Hello Catherine? Hello Neil.
What's our story today?
Our story today is telling us how your mobile devices could be putting you in danger.
Oh Dear, that sounds very serious. Let's hear more from this BBC News Report.
So, today's story there is about devices meaning mobile phone ,fitness trackers
all the kind of things that a lot of people carry with them and use everyday.
but there's a problem that people ,criminals can access your data through these devices and potentially use that information to get money from you basically.
well, ok, you've been looking at this story on the various news websites and picked out three words that we can use to talk about it.
yes, we have rise of, held to ransom, and targeting.
so, first one rise of how is that appearing in the headlines?
ok, we'll go to the BBC news website. and we have
Cyber security: Experts warn on rise of hacker ransoms
So, rise of meaning growth of a significant or powerful phenomenon
yeah, rise just basically means growth or increase as we know
yes, this is all about the proposition, isn't it?
because we know what rise means, increase, ah,, but rise of..
yeah, it's often , sometimes you can have a rise in something and that often means rise in numbers, rise in the rates , and it's really recording.
when you say rise in ,it's often just saying there's more of something.
but when we say rise of we then the thing that we're talking about has the idea of it's influencing, increase that influences the way people behave.
and it's often a significant increase causing a big impact on what happens.
it's sort of phenomenon or movement.
so, in this case the rise of hacker ransoms means that
we happen to change that what we do, because of this increasing hacker ransoms.
and there's a sense that this thing is kind of new or of significance now.
yeah, it might have, sometimes we use rise of ,because something wasn't really
,it happened a lot in the past and then it stopped ,then it happens again.
but the idea is some kind of phenomenon that really have an influence on the things we do.
like cyber crime, like technology all of the things that happened because of the rise of the technology.
yeah. the rise of technology is a good set phrase to think about
and it's really changed the way we live , rise of the smartphone,. and we have sometimes film titles , I think rise of ( ) rise of the machines of film titles
that shows us something is coming to be powerful and significant.
and we can use it not just for phenomenon for social things that changed in society.
and we can also use it for people when somebody becomes very powerful
we can talk about the rise of this person.
for example, Donald Trump
the rise of Donald Trump, he's become very powerful and influensial recently
so we can look at him in history and say yeah, he's become more powerful
it's rise of Donald Trump.
ok, moving on to our next headline.
The telegraph, Smartphones, TVs and watches could be held to ransom by hackers ,cyber security chiefs warn.
So, held to ransom ,made to do something by threats.
yeah, if we look at the sort of original meaning of to hold somebody's ransom
what you do is you take somebody's family member and you lock them ( ) somewhere
and then you say give me some money ,so you can have your family member back.
that's its original meaning. it's related to kidnap.
the money you pay to release the kidnapped person is a ransom.
yes, but we haven't got people involved here. have we? it's information.
It's information , absolutely. in fact, they're saying here there's a actual device
smartphones, your TV, your watches, so when hacker gets into your data and says
give me some money or I'll delete your photographs. or I've locked your phone. give me some money and I'll unlock it. and that money again is called a ransom
and it's usually money and can be an action ,you can ask someone to do something to get this information back.
but it's the idea of payment because you've taken something away.
like a lot of these expressions ,they start off with very specific meaning and then they expand ,don't they? exactly
so you can actually use it in a quite light hearted humorous way.
You can, yes.
for example , you've held me to ransom the other day.
I did, I did, yes, I did, because I knew you wanted me to help with your vocabulary program. and I'd got all that stuff ready to help you.
but first, I wanted you to help me with my grammar program.
and you're not gonna help me until then.
No, I'm holding you to ransom.
You're holding me to ransom.
I like doing that.
yes, thank you.
Our next item of vocabulary . we have targeting
yes, I'm going to go to ( ) and their headline is
Cyber security chiefs warn over hackers targeting smart phones, watches and fitness devices
and before we look at targeting, we'll just have a quick look at smartphone
it's written as two words in this news paper. in another one ,it was one word.
yeah, that often happens, it's as a compound noun where two words become one word
and in that process of becoming a new word , sometimes you see variations
so you see it's written with two words ,sometimes with a hyphen.
and then eventually usually it just becomes one word.
and you can see that process because of its spell, it's written differently on different websites. they're not wrong. they're just ,it's part of process of language.
So, targeting ,Catherine, I like darts.
we throw a small arrow at the target.
yes, artillery or bow and arrow and you try to hit something
I'm actually now with my pen targeting your face, if I ,your face is the target.
I'm gonna, go on uhh, I missed the target.
anyways target is something that you throw or aim something at.
and in that case ,we can have it literally ,your face was the target.
or you can use it as a verb metaphorically to say I'm aiming or my goal is to do something.
something's directing something at something.
yes, absolutely, and the hackers are targeting the smartphones.
so , hackers are aiming at getting into people's smartphones.
and we use this when we're talking about advertising campaigns or television programs.
most definitely. it's used in a lot of advertising. when we say that particular adverts are targeted at particular people for example , a lot of daytime television is targeted at women or retired people.
because a lot of them stay at home watching TV.
and This program is targeted at international learners of English.
Exactly.
and we hope we're hitting our target.
I hope we are.
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Jakkrapat
1. The rise of hacker ransoms.
A rise in cyber crimes!
The rise of Donald Trump. He's very powerful!
2. To hold someon for ransom. Give me some money or I'll lock your phone.
3. Targeting smartphones, watches, and fitness trackers.
To target the target
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1. The rise of hacker ransoms.
A rise in cyber crimes!
The rise of Donald Trump. He's very powerful!
2. To hold someon for ransom. Give me some money or I'll lock your phone.
3. Targeting smartphones, watches, and fitness trackers.
To target the target
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Sandy
I'm so glad to watch you and listen to you. I have some problems with my listening and pronunciation skills, so from now, I will follow you guys. Thank you for help us.
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I'm so glad to watch you and listen to you. I have some problems with my listening and pronunciation skills, so from now, I will follow you guys. Thank you for help us.
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Amal
1. The rise of technology has been making our lives more faster.
2. hacking is helding the people to ransom.
3. I am targeting learning English to my niece
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1. The rise of technology has been making our lives more faster.
2. hacking is helding the people to ransom.
3. I am targeting learning English to my niece
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beverridge
Do we have to pronounce the T in the word OFTEN ? You pronounced it 3 times in the 3 first minutes. I thought this T was not to be pronounced.
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Do we have to pronounce the T in the word OFTEN ? You pronounced it 3 times in the 3 first minutes. I thought this T was not to be pronounced.
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Vu
I haven't seen Jorjina and Sam for a while :( and haven't seen Fin as well. Are they ok? They don't have troubles with covid 19 at all, do they?
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I haven't seen Jorjina and Sam for a while :( and haven't seen Fin as well. Are they ok? They don't have troubles with covid 19 at all, do they?
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Minh
Please make more videos about vocabulary used in newspaper, it will help us understand more when reading or listening on CNN, etc :)
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Please make more videos about vocabulary used in newspaper, it will help us understand more when reading or listening on CNN, etc :)
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