Task 4
Read the article below.
http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/03/19/the-nsa-has-surveillance-system-to-record-100-percent-of-a-foreign-countrys-phone-calls
After reading
· Write 10 keywords related to the article. Look the words up in the
dictionary if you do not know their meanings fully. Next to each word, write
the part of speech (adjective, verb, noun, adverb, preposition, etc).
Then wirte sentences or a short text using the 10 key words you previously selected.
1. Surveillance (noun): close observation or supervision maintained over a person, group in custody or under suspicion.
ReplyDelete2. Enabling (verb: enable): to provide (someone) with adequate power, means, opportunity, or authority (to do something).
3. Retrieval (noun): the act or process of retrieving.
4. Nationwide (adjective): covering or available to the whole of a nation; national
5. Storing (verb): to keep, set aside, or accumulate for future use.
6. Withholding (verb): to keep back; refrain from giving.
7. Envisioned (verb): to conceive of as a possibility in the future; foresee.
8. Spokeswoman (noun): a person authorized to speak on behalf of another person, group of people, or organization.
9. Spying (noun): a person employed by a state or institution to obtain secret information from rival countries, organizations, companies.
10. Depicts (verb): to represent by or as by drawing, sculpture, painting, delineate; portray.
• The surveillance system in the house doesn´t work well.
• All services are enabled.
• They work in the retrieval of the building.
• The celebration for the arrival of the Costa Rica team was in the nationwide.
• I am storing a lot of boxes.
• At the airport, the workers of the airline are withholding the baggage of the passengers.
• She envisioned the happiest world.
• The spokeswoman said the bad news about the company.
• The spying team of the secret service is very specialized.
• The painting depicts a typical house in Europe.
1. National Security Agency (noun)
ReplyDelete2. surveillance (noun)
3. rewind (verb)
4. review (verb)
5. voice interception program (noun)
6. capacity (noun)
7. call buffer (noun)
8. program (noun)
9. telephone network (noun)
10. massive (adjetive)
Isabel Guzmán
contractor (noun) A person or firm that undertakes a contract to provide materials or labor to perform a service or do a job
ReplyDeleteWe need a contractor to build our new building.
eavesdropping (verb) Secretly listen to a conversation
The eavesdropping are illegal in Costa Rica.
budget (noun) An estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time
We have to prepare your annual budget.
allies (noun) A state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose
The ward in Gaza involved some allies.
gather (verb) Come together; assemble or accumulate
If we gather our effort we could rich our goals.
depicts (verb) Represent by a drawing, painting, or other art form
Our ancestrals made a lot of depicts.
bandwidth (noun) A range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal
TEC must increase the internet bandwidth.
leaping (verb) Jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force
Peter leapt the last few stairs.
gargantuan (adjetiv) Enormous
There is a big sector with a gargantuan appetite for power.
briefing (noun) A meeting for giving information or instructions
The police department had a little briefing to inform us about the crime.
Sonia
1.Surveillance (noun)
ReplyDelete2.Knowledge (noun)
3.former (adjetive)
4.retrieval (noun)
5.reach (verb)
6.elsewhere (adverb)
7.spokeswoman (noun)
8.bulk (noun)
9.eavesdro(noun)
10.budget (noun)
NSA, deployment, surveillance, privacy concerns, intelligence, telephone calls, anonymity, purged, foreign and institutional protections.
ReplyDeleteThe NSA is an institution of the United States of America that make an intelligence work by keeping the surveillance on the foreign; this institution made some mistakes about privacy in civilians, they recorded telephone calls and emails of everyone inside or outside a target country; the deployment of a new program can save a lot of data so they in anonymity can purged people that have "dangerous interests" against the institutional protections.
Keywords: surveillance, MYSTIC, phone calls, RETRO, USA government, intelligent agency, National Security Council, Snowden, eavesdropping, Obama, spying.
ReplyDeleteThe USA National Security Agency was made a surveillance system. This computer system called MYSTIC is a program that permits to recorder the phone calls from any nation around the world. This system was preceded by RETRO, another program that permitted recorder conversation in USA.
The system is useful for USA government in order to maintain information that could be relevant for the intelligent agency.
However, the spokeswomen for the National Security Council didn´t comment about a specific alleged intelligence activities.
Documents provided by Snowden suggest the eavesdropping could be extending to other countries.
The president Obama said the USA wasn´t spying ordinary people.