2. Roommates (from the Unit 1 podcast)
1. Do you live in the dorm now? If so, which one?
If not, where do you live? Do you live by yourself, or
with friends or family, or in a boarding house?
2. Do you have any annoying habits? What are they?
- Do you think your roommates/housemates are
annoyed by them? (If you don’t live in the dorm or a
boarding house, talk about your family.)
3. What habits or qualities in a roommate would you find
the most annoying (generally speaking)? Why?
- What about your roommates/housemates? Do they
have any of these annoying habits? (If you don’t live
in the dorm or a boarding house, talk about your family.)
3. Surveillance & Privacy
1. True (Articles 17 & 18), but Article 37 allows for curtailing
rights “when necessary for national security, the maintenance
of law and order or for public welfare.”
2. All three – KT (Olleh), SKT & LG Uplus
3. Freedom House ranked Korea’s internet and press freedoms
as ‘partly free’ (scores 36 & 34/100 – 0 is the best; 100 the worst; 30 or
above is ‘free’) – only 13% of the world’s population enjoys a
‘free’ press;
- Internet freedom: Most free: Estonia & Iceland (6); Least free: China (88)
- Press freedom: Most free: Norway (8); Least free: North Korea &
Turkmenistan (98)
4. More than 1,030,000 government CCTV cameras in 2018
5. True
How does this information make you feel? Why?
4. p. 23, 1A – discuss [number plate = (car) license plate]
1B – match the meanings with the phrases in the photo
1C – discuss
2A – Listen to two people discussing surveillance
technology - do they like it or dislike it?
2B – Listen again and fill in the chart
Giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing
Look at p. 130, #2.3 – which agreeing & disagreeing
expressions are the strongest? The weakest?
P. 23, 2D – discuss the opinions in 2B– do you agree or
disagree? Why? Use the phrases from the Language
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