Name: 學習英語 - 系列1，第1集：電子犯罪 (Study English - Series 1, Episode 1: Electronic Crime)
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I'm Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English, IELTS preparation.

In this series, we look at the skills you'll need to write formal, academic English, and

you'll have the chance to listen to people talking about topics you'll find at colleges

In today's episode were going to hear someone talking about a new type of crime - electronic

Then we're going to look at word families, and do some spelling.

It is a new frontier, and there are old, traditional forms of crime being committed electronically,

and via computers and the internet, but there are also new crime types emerging.

Electronic crime really does cross over a whole range of different crime types.

You can imagine stalking offences that may be facilitated via email, harassment, threatening

emails, small-scale fraud offences, right up through to large-scale frauds committed

OK, so let's have a closer look at that clip.

We're going to focus on vocabulary building, and word groups, but first, listen again to

this sentence. See if you can hear the keyword, the main

He says there are old, traditional forms of crime being committed electronically.

The keyword is crime. That's what the sentence is about.

We say that a crime is committed, or done.

To commit a crime is to do something illegal.

Let's have a closer look at the word crime.

In English, many words can change to have different uses. In this way, they form word

Learning words groups is an excellent way to build your vocabulary.

You should write them down in a table like this showing adjectives, nouns, verbs, and

Of course, there are often at least 2 different sorts of nouns - nouns for things, and nouns

Let's have a look at the crime word group.

A criminal is a person who commits a crime.

Criminal is also the adjective. We can describe something by using the word

criminal before the noun. That was a criminal act.

And we have the adverb criminally. To behave criminally is to behave in an illegal

There's no verb from crime. We have to use the phrase to commit a crime.

OK. Well come back to our table a bit later.

Right now, listen to what sort of crimes are being committed these days - and listen for

He says there are old forms of crime being committed electronically.

Electronically is an adverb. It means in an electronic way, or using electronics.

Electronics is the study of electricity and the things that use electricity.

Listen to the way electronic is used here

He uses the phrases electronic crime, and committed electronically.

Notice that electronic, the adjective, comes before the noun crime, but that the adverb

electronically comes after the verb committed.

Let's look at the table again. We have electronic the adjective, electronically

You'll notice that not all words take all these different forms. But where they do exist,

you will be able to see patterns emerging.

For example look at the adverbs criminally and electronically.

OK, so we've looked at electronic and its word family.

These days, electronic is often used to mean relating to computers, or new technologies.

We have e-mail: electronic mail, e-business, electronic business.

So we could call these electronic crimes e-crimes: crimes committed using computers and the internet.

But what sorts of e-crimes are being committed? Listen for the two main types of crimes that

He mentions two main types of crimes: stalking offences and fraud offences.

Notice how you can build your vocabulary by looking at words on a theme.

An offence is a crime, and offenders are criminals.

But look at some other crime words. We've got robbery and robbers, burglary and burglars.

And there are lots more - you should try to learn words in themes like this. See how many

words you can find for different types of crimes and criminals.

OK, now let's have a quick look at some spelling.

Spelling is very important in formal writing, but English spelling is very difficult. They're

aren't too many rules, and most of them can be broken.

Notice that many words can have doubled letters, but you can't tell by just listening to the

In today's story we've seen the words committed, electronically, different, cross,

There aren't really any rules for spelling these words - you have to learn them all one

When you come across new words, try writing them down a few times, and spelling them out

Notice in Australia and England, we spell doubled letters out by saying the word double

But in the United States, they just say the letter twice - f-f, s-s. So you can choose

either way, but you should learn to recognise both.

Listen to this: Different: d-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t, different

Harassment: h-a-r-a-s-s-m-e-n-t, harassment