Spam email - listening

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

like

and

besides

because

unlike

such

What do all these words have in common?

Tip 3: Learn signal words and connections

Words such as, like, and, besides, unlike are all signal words. These words help you understand a text better. During the Test Week test you have to read a lot and Signal words help you quickly see connections in long texts. 

besides

and

besides

Comparisons

just like

opposites

Whereas

equally

but

enumeration      (listing things)

also

There are different type of signal words. Learn them my heart and it will help you read the texts more quickly.

Today's lesson

First a "Cito Reading Test" Tip

A film clip

Cito Reading Practice

Spam

Discuss with your partner: (in English, of course!)

What is it?

Do you have a problem with it?

What do you do about it? 

You are going to watch a Ted talk about how  Jim Veitch deals with the problem of Spam emails

1. Watch the Ted talk

AFTERWARDS

2. Try and answer the questions

3. Watch the clip a second time and improve on your answers.

4. Check 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=james+veitch+toaster

Why does James reply to Spam emails?

Where does the term 'Spam' come from?

Much to the chagrin of Hormel Foods, maker of the canned "Shoulder Pork and hAM"/"SPiced hAM" luncheon meat, the term "spam" has today come to mean network abuse, particularly junk E-mail and massive junk postings to USENET.

Most people have some vague awareness that it first came from the spam skit by Monty Python's Flying Circus. In the sketch, a restaurant serves all its food with lots of spam, and the waitress repeats the word several times in describing how much spam is in the items. When she does this, a group of Vikings in the corner start a song:

"Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam! Wonderful spam!"

Until told to shut up.

Thus the meaning of the term at least: something that keeps repeating and repeating to great annoyance. How did the two get connected?