Hello. 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 and universities.
In today’s episode we’re going to hear someone talking about a new type of crime – electronic crime. Listen carefully to this police officer.
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 via the internet.