INGLÉS 6°1° - 6°2° - Prof. Patricia Quintana - CLASSES 4 & 5 - MAIL: patquintana05@gmail.com

     

Bitcoin and the black market      

1-Warm-up

What do you know about bitcoin? (¿Qué sabes acerca de bitcoins?)

          

            

            2-Key vocabulary

Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.

(Uni las palabras de la izquierda con sus definiciones en la derecha)

1.	a cryptocurrency	a.	a digital form of money produced by a public company
2.	money laundering	b.	a record of money received and paid
3.	a seizure	c.	a situation where there is more effort to punish people for a specific crime
4.	conceal	d.	attracting a lot of attention in the media
5.	high-profile	e.	moving and transferring illegal money to make it seem legal
6.	a ledger	f.	taking something using legal authority
7.	reconstruct	g.	to build or create something again
8.	a crackdown	h.	to keep something secret

            

            3- Before you read  (Antes de leer)

You are going to read an article about bitcoin and illegal trading on the internet. Choose the best answers for the questions below, then check your answers by scanning the text on the next page.

(Van a leer un articulo acerca de las bitcoins y el comercio ilegal en internet. Elige la mejor respuesta para cada pregunta. Chequea con el texto que está debajo)

1.  What is the estimated value of bitcoin connected with illegal activity?

a.  $5 billion                   b.  $36 billion                c.  $72 billion

2.  According to the article, how many bitcoin transactions are connected with illegal activity?

a.  almost a third          b.  almost a quarter     c.  almost half

3.    Why is bitcoin so popular with criminals?

a.    They can hide their real identities.

b.    It's easy to make a lot of money illegally.

c.    They prefer to use the internet to make payments.

4-Reading (lectura)

             5-Find the words

Find a word or phrase in the text which means....

( Encuentra en el texto ayudándote con el n° de párrafo que figura en verde, la palabra o frase que significa...)

1.    a big part of the value of (sth) (phrase, P.3):

2.    connected to (phrase, P.4):

3.    carry out (sth) (verb, P.6):

4.    the first stage of a process (three word noun, P.9):

5.    hidden (verb - past participle form, P.10):

6.    appearance or arrival of (sth) (noun, P.12): 

                   7.    results of an action (noun - plural, P.15):

6-Adverbs

➽( Los adverbios son palabras que nos dicen cómo se realiza una acción y por lo tanto califican a los verbos. Se forman agregando -ly a un adjetivo y se corresponden con la terminación -mente en castellano.

Ejemplo: primery (adjetivo)⟹   primerily (adverbio)

                primero                ⟹   primeramente 

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                     Complete the sentences with the adverbs below.(Completá las oraciones con uno de los                               siguientes adverbios)

collectively       completely        potentially          primarily           worringly

                      1.Transactions with money are never _______________________ anonymous.

                    2.___________________________ ,the price of the company's shares has fallen again.    

                    3.The users ________________________________ hold around $8 billion worth of bitcoin.

                    4.The scandal could  _________________________ be disastrous for the company.

                    5._________________________ , the reason people play the game is to make a lot of money.