11. Read and reproduce the following dialogue:

A: So tell us, do you use the Internet, do you like surfing it?

B: Yeah, I spend quite a bit of time on the Internet, especially Web surfing. Well, and emailing too but mainly Web surfing, that's where the time gets eaten up.

A: What are your favourite Internet sites?

B: My favourite sites at the moment are probably, the Kodak site. It is a really good one and has some fantastic pictures and the NASA site is really good.

A: And what's the most unusual site you've found?

B: The most unusual site I've found is a guided tour of an American nuclear missile silo.

A: Wow!

B: And it's these guys that have broken into this old disused missile silo in the middle of the desert, and they've gone round taking pictures of it, and they give you this map, and you go on this Internet site into different rooms of this missile silo.

A: My next question is, well in that case, how often do you stay on line, is it longer than expected on a site like that?

B: Well, with a site like that it really is because, when you hit something like that you just go, I don't believe this is real, it's fantastic.

A: How many friends, I mean if any, have you made using a chat line?

В: I don't use the chat lines. I find them really silly and a bit dull. What I do, is finding out who of my friends are on email and then ask them about sites, like astronomy sites or things which are realistic. And the Web is just brilliant.

Notes: disused nuclear missile silo – підземна база запуску ядерних ракет, що вийшла з ужитку

when you hit something… – коли ти натрапляєш на щось …

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Pre-reading task

1. Match the following words and word combinations from the text with their Ukrainian equivalents.

1) with a sweet tooth a) скласти, вигадати

2) to surf the Net b) навмання

3) to make up c) відділ боротьби з

шахрайством

4) at random d) блукати Інтернетом

5) fraud squad e) ласий до ласощів

6) dumbfounded f) залишки

7) the remains g) підліток

8) juvenile h) приголомшений

9) offender i) правопорушник

10) charity j) благодійність

2. Read the text about Dublin’s First Cyber Criminal and translate the sentences with the words and phrases from Ex. 1.

Text B

A teenage boy with a sweet tooth has become Ireland’s first Internet criminal after ordering £1,600 of chocolate on the credit card of an Argentinean.

The case began in Dublin, where a 15-year-old boy was surfing the Net on his parents’ computer. He found an American company offering home deliveries of chocolate. The boy called up the order form, filled in his name and address and placed an order for $2,000 of chocolate. When asked for his credit card number, he made one up. He typed in 16 digits at random.

Four days later, while his parents were out, a courier delivered the chocolate. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, hid the goods in his room.

Meanwhile, the credit card holder in Argentina was distressed to discover that he had paid $2,000 to an American company supplying chocolates. He denied any knowledge of the order. The American suppliers checked the order form, realized, the order had gone to Dublin rather than to Argentina and contacted the Irish police. The Irish fraud squad began investigating its first case of Internet fraud.

Police called at the boy’s home and witnessed him eating the evidence. According to one Irish weekend newspaper, his parents were stunned at the discovery. All three cooperated fully with the police and recovered the remains of the chocolate.

As a juvenile, the boy will not be charged with obtaining goods by false pretences and the American company donated the chocolate to a children’s charity in Dublin. The offender is said to be “sick of the sight of chocolate”.

Notes: rather than to – а не до

to donate – дарувати, жертвувати

to charge with - звинувачувати у

offender - правопорушник