Privacy vs Security

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Aims

Goal: defend a position on privacy versus security — dismantling 'nothing to hide', conceding the security case its real force, and hedging where the trade-off is genuinely hard.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Where's your line?

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: The Surveillance Dilemma

    Read a 395-word text about The Surveillance Dilemma

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Key Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Privacy and Security Language

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match the Argument to the Side

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Debating Surveillance Powers

    Role-play: You are participating in a panel discussion on a proposed law expanding government surveillance powers. (4 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Take the floor

    6 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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