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Reading Skills Practice: Your Digital Footprint - Exercises

The document discusses digital footprints and provides tips for managing them. It begins by explaining that every online activity leaves a digital trail similar to footprints. It then provides matching exercises to introduce key terms like digital footprint and recruiter. Multiple choice questions then assess understanding of how to maintain privacy and security online by keeping passwords secure, logging off sites, and thinking carefully before sharing personal information. Tips are provided on reporting inappropriate content and remembering favorite websites through bookmarking.

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Reading Skills Practice: Your Digital Footprint - Exercises

The document discusses digital footprints and provides tips for managing them. It begins by explaining that every online activity leaves a digital trail similar to footprints. It then provides matching exercises to introduce key terms like digital footprint and recruiter. Multiple choice questions then assess understanding of how to maintain privacy and security online by keeping passwords secure, logging off sites, and thinking carefully before sharing personal information. Tips are provided on reporting inappropriate content and remembering favorite websites through bookmarking.

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Reading skills practice: Your digital footprint – exercises

Every time you do anything on the internet you leave a trail behind you, in the same way you leave a footprint when you
walk on sand or mud. Do you know how to take care of your digital footprint? Here are some tips.

Before reading - Match the words with similar meanings and write a–h next to the numbers 1–8.

1…….. suitable a. a track


2…….. a trail b. to show
3…….. details c. to leave
4…….. to abandon d. complicated
5…….. to reveal e. a purpose
6…….. a function f. information
7…….. complex g. an employer
8…….. a recruiter h. appropriate

1. Reading - Circle the best answer to these questions.

1. When you go online, you … c. including a symbol.


a. can choose what information is recorded about you.
b. leave a trail showing where you’ve been and what 5. If a user reports inappropriate content, …
you’ve been doing. a. web managers usually react immediately.
c. send information to recruiters. b. recruiters often respond.
c. other users want to read what they’ve said.
2. If people search for information about you, they can
find your … 6. You should report abusive remarks on the internet …
a. bookmarked websites. a. if you think they are really serious.
b. passwords. b. in all cases.
c. digital footprint. c. if you can find the contact and have time.

3. Someone could pretend to be you if you don’t log off 7. To remember your favourite websites, you can use
when … the …
a. abandoning a site. a. browser.
b. posting a comment. b. bookmark function.
c. sharing a photo. c. mobile device.

4. You should make your passwords difficult to guess 8. Think carefully before …
by … a. sharing your favourite website online.
a. using all capital letters. b. sharing your comments online.
b. making them complex. c. sharing personal information online.

2. Reading - Write the tips in the correct group.


COLÉGIO MILITAR DE SALVADOR
LANGUAGES CENTER

NAME: _______________________________________________________ NUMBER: ___________

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