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86 Reading Read the text. What’s wrong here? Why do you think this is wrong? How do you think Kristin felt after seeing this? Take notes. What could other kids do when they see the photo of Kristin? Take notes and discuss your answer with a partner. Think about this situation … Cyberbullying 16 Kristin and Janet are friends at school. After a small fight, Kristin tells Janet that she doesn’t want to hang out with her anymore. Janet gets angry and uploads a private photo of Kristin onto her social network site from a party some weeks ago. She writes a comment under it: “Kristin is such a ****!” . . . . 5 . . One day you like someone, then you have a fight. The next day you don’t like him or her anymore. You are angry and post something online about this person. This message gets passed around very quickly. The next day, everyone knows about it and talks about it at school. Although you were angry, you didn’t mean to make such a big thing about it. But now, the message gets passed around over and over again. When teenagers get angry and start being mean to each other on the telephone or on the computer, it’s called cyberbullying. Sometimes teenagers write nasty 1 messages in the status updates, sometimes they post pictures of the other person and sometimes they send them threatening 2 text messages. Sometimes teenagers can deal with cyberbullying and sometimes they can’t. Sometimes they can feel angry, frustrated, sad or even afraid. . . 10 . . . . 15 . . . . 1 nasty: böse, gemein 2 threatening: bedrohlich Have you ever been cyberbullied? What happened? What did you do? Take notes and discuss in class. 17 worksheet b834bs listening v27su7 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv