Good morning everyone! Here is the question for today’s activity.
How can we keep safe online? (remember we had an expert teaching us in school…)
Use your best English as always and review before posting!
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VAL ENGLISH SIXTH COURSE 
I think we can kape safe online if we don’t trust people that we don’t know in person, having friends in our real life and not in the online apps.Also we can cover the computer camera with a clothes clip or a piece of paper so as not to be spied on.
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Diego Trigo DT 6B
We can be safe online doing, for example, loging out or changing the password. Or you can have an antimalwere in the PC, windows 10 for example is very safe and you can use its firewall. If it is not safe online do not enter.
So we have tobe very careful with internet.
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I think we can keep save online if we don’t go to strange websites and accept everything they put on us and always cover the camera of the computer with a piece of tape to avoid being spied on. We should also always log out when exiting an app to prevent hackers accessing to our dispositive.
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Hi Bianca!
This is great advice! Don’t forget the difference between ‘save’ and ‘safe’.
save = verb. I want to save my information from hackers.
safe = adjective. My information is safe.
Dispositive is a word in English but it’s not the right word to use here. You can just say ‘device’ as more people will understand what that means!
Apart from that, there are no spelling mistakes and it is well structured! Well done! 😀
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Sorry I pushed an incorrect button and I sent my work incomplete. I continue.
In internet many adults pretend to lie you saing that they are kids too. If you are have any problem you can call the police, of course you have to say it to your parents.
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Hi PRS,
I can’t see the first part of your work, could you add it as a reply to this and I will correct it too 🙂
This advice is very important, well done!
Don’t forget in English we say ‘On the internet’.
‘Pretend’ and ‘lie’ are very similar verbs so they sound strange together. You could say:
“On the internet, many adults pretend to be kids and lie to you.”
Again with the next sentence, you can’t have ‘are’ and ‘have’ together. You have to choose:
“If you are *having* any *problems*, you can call the police, of course you have to say it to your parents.”
OR
“If you have any problems, you can call the police, of course you have to tell your parents.”
Spelling:
saing = saying
Very good effort! 🙂
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I think we can be safe online if we don’t give our pictures and perosonal information to someone, if we don’t talk with strangers, putting password in our and covering the cameras of our devices.
And the last but no less important read the Privacy Policy.
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Hi Inés,
There are some good ideas here. There’s a sentence that looks unfinished: “…putting password in our…”? Can you think of how to complete it?
Don’t forget that we can’t start a sentence with ‘and’! The phrase you used in the last sentence is almost correct:
“Last but not least…”
Finally, spelling:
perosonal = personal
Very good effort! 🙂
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RSJ 6B
I think we can keep save online we don’t have to go to strange websites and accept everything they put on us and always cover the camera of the computer with a piece of tape or a paper to avoid being spied on. We should also always log out when exiting an app to prevent hackers accessing.
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Hi RSJ,
These are great ideas! You gave good explanations and good advice!
Don’t forget:
save = verb. I want to save my information from hackers.
safe = adjective. My information is safe.
You can practise using the conditional in the first sentence.
“I think we can keep safe online *if* we don’t have to go to strange websites”
Good effort! 🙂
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iI think you can be safe whithout givind¡g your photos to strangers, only have the password in a notebook no in a computer and coverb the frontal camera of the PC tablet movile phone etc..
But I think but there is one that stands out and it’s change all the passwords all the months.
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Hi David,
These are very good ideas! Please make sure that you check your work before you submit!!!
Spelling:
whithout = without
givind¡g = giving
coverb = cover
movile = mobile
Remember to use commas (,) when you’re making lists but don’t end with ‘etc…’.
Finally, don’t forget that instead of “all the months”, we say “every month”.
Try to include more explanations. What will happen if we don’t follow your advice?
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I think we can keep safe in the internet if we don’t give our information in strange webs. If we need to do it, we have to investigate and see if the website is safe, another form is using URL’s with https. That’s all in my point of view.
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Hi!
These are very good points, but I would love hear some more explanations. What could happen if we give our personal information to a ‘strange website’?
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From my point of view, we can stay safe online if we don’t write personal data online through WebPages. That can‘t be safe; as well as if a webpage ask you to write your credit card number for something, but it doesn’t say the reason why you have to put it.
In regards to the passwords, if you want to be safe you should have a difficult password or a long one. You shouldn’t use simple passwords, as your birthday. In this way, it should be something that the people do not think it’s going to be that.
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Hi Dario,
These are very good ideas! Just be careful with the last sentence, as it’s more complicated than it needs to be.
“In this way, it should be something that the people do not think it’s going to be that.”
I would simplify it to this:
“In this way, it should be something that people can’t guess.”
Also, try to include more explanations about what could happen if we don’t follow your advice.
Apart from this, very good effort. Well done! 🙂
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I think that if we want to stay safe online, we must not talk to people you do not know and who have never spoken, another important thing is to change your password as long as necessary and if you are bothered by sending messages, tell your parents so you are safer.
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Hi Diego,
This is great advice! Can you give more explanations about what will happen if we don’t follow your advice?
Be careful with -ing words. This sentence “…if you are bothered by sending messages, tell your parents so you are safer.” sounds like you are the person who sends the messages.
Here is a good opportunity to use the passive!
“…if you are bothered by messages *sent* to you…”
Good effort! 🙂
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We have several tips in order to do so. We should be careful who we meet online. It’s very dangerous to chat with people we don’t know. Another thing we can do is to choose a unique and complex password or change it very often to make harder for the hackers to identify it. You must be aware of watching out what you post, many pictures or comments will be online forever even though you think you have deleted them. You have to take care of what you download, don’t use websites that look dangerous or you don’t trust, ask an adult first or someone that knows about it. An important matter is not to give personal details such as names, telephone numbers, bank accounts, addresses,etc. Finally it could be a good idea to use an antivirus to block or identity any cyber attack.
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Hi David,
Wow! This is fantastic! You explained what the dangers are and what we can do to prevent them. Good job!
The only thing I would change is this sentence:
“You must be aware of watching out what you post…”
You can just shorten this to “You must be aware of what you post”
Apart from that, absolutely brilliant! Very well done 😀
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Thank you Holly! 🙂
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A.C. 6ºB
To be safe on the internet we can cover the camera with a sticker, We shouldn’t talk to people we don’t know but if we talk with someone, we will never give personal information (telephone, address, etc.).
We can also change the password all the time so that nobody knows it.
And finally, we haven’t share any image with strangers.
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Hi Alejandro,
This is very good advice and well structured. Just remember that the first sentence should end with a stop (.) instead of a comma (,). Also don’t forget that we can’t start a sentence with ‘and’. Can you think of another connector?
For the last piece of advice, if you use ‘haven’t’, I think you’re talking about the past. As you are talking about something that people should never do, I would write “…we *mustn’t* share any images with strangers.”
Finally, can you explain what could happen if we don’t follow your advice? Give more explanations about why the internet can be dangerous.
Very good effort! 🙂
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MSM 6ºA
I think that we can be more safe online if we put passwords in all important things in the computer like email, bank password, and things like that.
This problem is very dangerus because if a hacker hacks our personal identies that hacker can use it to steal your money, or other things.
Besides, if we put many personal things in social networks maybe someone can use it against you.
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Hi Manuel,
You mentioned lots of dangerous things that could happen online. How can we protect our information or stop people from using personal things against us?
Don’t forget to check your spelling!
dangerus = dangerous
identies = identities
Great effort! 🙂
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I thing web can keep safe online beeing only friends of our frinds in the real life, not someone that we dont’t know Who are.
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Hi Elsa,
This is good advice! Remember to check your spelling:
think = thing (think = verb, thing = noun)
frinds = friends
Also, don’t forget that in English, we always write who the subject is before the verb:
“…not someone that we don’t know who *they* are.”
I hope this helps! 🙂
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I think we can keep safe online the most important thing is only be friends of our real friends, never send my pictures even if they are my friends. Put off the camera and the microphone and changing our pasword one’s a period of time.
I belive that this type of things can help us to stay safe in the internet.
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Hi NH!
This is very good advice. Try to include more connectors and think about how to structure your writing so that it is easier to read. For example in the first sentence, you need to split it into two shorter sentences:
“I think we can keep safe online. *The most important thing is only be friends of our real friends, *and* never send my pictures even if they are my friends.”
Spelling:
one’s = once (choose a period of time, otherwise it’s too vague: once a week, once a month, or once a year)
pasword = password
belive = believe
Remember if you are talking about a plural (things) then you have to use ‘these’ instead of ‘this’
“I believe that *these* type of things can help us to stay safe in the internet.”
Finally, instead of ‘put off’, we say ‘turn off’.
Good effort! 🙂
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Good Job! You can improve a little bit by linking with to a few phrases… I think to keep safe… .thing is to only be friends… . I think at the end of the second sentence you mean once? .. changing our password once a period of time has past? Great work ! keep it up son constant and accurate!
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JDH-6ºA: JDH-6ºA: In my opinion, the most important thing is not to reveal any personal information about you or about where you live. It is also very important to be careful with the photos and to secure your computer, as well as, entering safe websites, having a good virus protector and not to enter attractive but unreal advertisement. Normally when you’re younger all these security measures are done by your parents but it’s good to now how can you keep yourself safe when navigating inside internet for you to do so when your parents can’t or just to prevent unsafe situations playing videogames or watching social media. Talking about advertisements, you might have heard about cookies, which are programs to take account of which sites you have visited or what you have done while on the computer. After reading this, you may think to disable them in order to be safer and to block any person who would want to reach that data. Well, you can try, but you’ll end up not able to enter any website. This is so because cookies aren’t only to show you advertishments or sell data of the websites you most visit, they also record that you have entered that website and the program which controls the website allows you to enter. To sum up, there are two types of cookies: the one that allows you to enter the website and the other one that picks up data. You can know which one a website is using in the long text that many people skip because it’s incredibly long, but it is an important part in your security.
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Hi JDH,
Wow! This is very detailed! I would actually suggest that you make this simpler by separating the different topics into mini paragraphs or by splitting up your long sentences into shorter ones!
Spelling:
now = know (don’t forget that silent k!)
advertishments (remember to proofread!)
With this sentence: “…it’s good to know how can you keep yourself safe… ” it sounds like you are asking a question with ‘how can you’ so I would just replace the ‘can you’ with ‘to’.
“…it’s good to now how *to* keep yourself safe… ”
In general, you just need to improve your structure. Apart from that, good job! 😀
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Hi Judith, wow.. .not only your ideas are ready for a workshop in school… but your English is brilliant..
Just be careful that English is not used to used so many subordinadas… the never ending linking of sentences is a very spanish thing to do.. but in English sounds a little bit caotic… For you is great practice though… I can spot a couple of mistakes… (take into account…and I don’t understand how this phrase follows… of wich (sounds spanish to me…) .. anyway nothing relevant… maybe a now (meaning know…can you spot it?) .. great , great , great work!
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Alvaro Correa 6A
For keeping safe online, it´s important to keep your privacy settings on, and choose strong passwords.
But all of these is useless if you are not careful what you download and post. It is important to keep personal information limited.
In other hand, you have to be very careful who you meet online as people are not always who they claim to be, and fake social media profiles are a popular way to cheat users.
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Hi Alvaro,
Wow! This is very impressive and excellent advice! What do you mean by ‘strong passwords’? Don’t forget ‘these’ is plural, so you need to follow it with ‘are’.
Remember, we use ‘On the other hand’ when you are writing two different opinions.
“On one hand, I don’t really like sweet things. On the other hand, I think chocolate cake is the best dessert.”
Apart from these things, this is very good! Well done! 😀
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I think we can stay safe introducing complicating passwords or for example change It every year.
If you have social networks you should have your account private.Also if you enter in a commun page is advisable to not safe your password and your email.
Also if you are working on something you should ti keep your web cam off.
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Hi Emily!
This is great advice! Be careful with the difference between ‘safe’ and ‘save’. ‘Safe’ means that something is away from danger, for example ‘staying safe on the internet’. ‘Save’ in this case means to keep something stored, for example “…it is advisable to not save your password…”.
Remember, for this sentence “I think we can stay safe introducing complicating passwords…” you are describing the passwords, so instead of ‘complicating’, we say ‘complicated’. Lots of adjectives end in -ed 🙂
In the same sentence, you should make sure that your verbs follow the same pattern:
“I think we can stay safe introducing complicated passwords or for example *changing* *them* every year.”
Finally, I think in English we would say a ‘forum’ page instead of a ‘commun’ page? It’s a page where people discuss their opinions. Remember to double check the meaning if you are not sure.
In general, well done! This is a well thought out piece of work! 😀
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I think we can keep ourselves protected in Internet, starting to have an antivirus, and never put the same password in web. If you enter to a page and is a padlock, it is safe, but if it’s an exclamation, it’s not safe.
you need to be careful.
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Hi LGR,
What a great way to remember if a site is safe! Remember this symbol (!) is called an ‘exclamation mark’. Also, in English, you have to say ‘the internet’ but you don’t need a capital letter 🙂
Can explain why we need to be safe online? What could happen if we don’t follow your advice?
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I think you ca be save for examole without giving your photos to strangers, changing the password every month(put the passwords in a notebook), taping the front camera of the computer or the movile phone etc…
But my fauvorite is that you have to instal a inhackeable antivirus.
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Hi!
This is some very good information, just make sure that you don’t lose the notebook with all your passwords!
Don’t forget to check your work before you submit:
Spelling:
ca = can
save = safe (save is a verb, to save your computer. Safe is an adjective, my computer is safe)
examole = example
movile = mobile
fauvorite = favourite
instal = install
inhackeable = unhackable
Why is it a good idea to put tape on the front camera of your computer or mobile phone? Explain this more please! 🙂
In general, good job! 🙂
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We can keep save our computer by always searching thigs in google chrome, do not enter in non-official website and before turning off the computer log out and change the password. You should never install games in a anonimous website because it probably won’t be a game it would be a virus.I think that are the things that you should do to keep save your computer.
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Hi Dani,
This is very sensible advice! Don’t forget to read your work before you submit.
Spelling:
save = safe (save is a verb, to save your computer. Safe is an adjective, my computer is safe)
thigs = things
anonimous = anonymous
You can use a dictionary online to help you for next time 🙂
Finally, when you are talking about a brand, the name always starts with a capital letter: Google Chrome.
In general, good job! 🙂
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I think we can keep safe online changing all the passwords, do not give our passwords to anyone,
being careful with what you post in the social networks….
We can also cover our camera so that hackers do not see us.
So we have to be careful with ours computers, mobile phones, tablets….
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Hi Carla!
This is very good advice! Try to include more connectors so that your sentences can flow better and remember to not use these (…) in these type of texts in English.
Don’t forget that with ‘our’, it never changes. “Our computers, mobile phones, tablets…”
Finally when you are writing a list of verbs, make sure that they have the same grammar:
“I think we can keep safe online changing all the passwords, do not give our passwords to anyone…”
=
“I think we can keep safe online changing all the passwords, *not giving* our passwords to anyone…”
In general, good job! Well done 🙂
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NSD 6ºB I think we can keep safe online not giving our passwords, email or number to someone that we don’t see or don’t know because probably it could be someone that wants to steal you or wants to stal information to go into your account and get some money without working. This has never happened to me. However, I have a friend that met someone that she didn’t know and it was an old man, now she is scared of playing online games. The computer, when you go into any web page and you have to register, it usually asks you if you want to safe your password. I always press the button “NEVER” because anybody could steal it. We should also be careful with the things that we post in Facebook, Instagram or that apps that everybody use because if you post someting personal, the hole world will see it.
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Hi NSD!
This is all excellent advice! I’m sorry to hear about your friend, but I’m pleased she’s ok!
Try to break up your writing into mini paragraphs when you start a new topic and revise some of your structures as they seem a little Spanish. For example:
“The computer, when you go into any web page and you have to register, it usually asks you if you want to save your password.”
=
“When you go into any web page and you have to register, the computer usually asks you if you want to save your password.”
There are a couple of spelling mistakes, so don’t forget to always check by using a dictionary:
hole = whole
safe = save
someting = something
Apart from that, very good job! Well done! 😀
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Some ways to keep safe online are protecting important information in web pages, sometimes the Internet navigator tells us if the website is safe, creating strong passwords and don’t revealing them, removing suspects emails…
It is important to navigate thinking about the consequences.
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Hi Alicia!
This is very important advice and I can tell that you really paid attention to the expert 🙂
I would only make a few changes. For example, you only mention one way to keep safe, so I could change the first sentence to:
“One way to keep safe online is…”
Then, instead of a comma (,) I would stop the sentence to break it up and make it easier to read. Your vocabulary is really good here, but if you want to sound more natural:
navigator = browser
A ‘suspect’ is a noun, ‘suspicious’ is the adjective 🙂
Don’t forget that we don’t use the three dots (…) in a text like this.
Finally, with gerunds (-ing words) when you want them to be negative, you just need to add ‘not’:
“…the Internet navigator tells us if the website is safe, creating strong passwords and not revealing them…”
In general, very good work! Well done! 😀
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i think we can keep safe online changing the password. sing out of all the pages , never save the password in your computer. be carful of what you post in social media. Erase your historial onece a week.Thinks like that can help us been safe online but you have to be carful of what you do in the internet because they can also erase your acount and remove your money. in conclusion we have to be very careful.
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Hi CC,
This is very good advice and very detailed!
First thing, where are the capital letters??? I noticed a couple of examples where you did use them, but you need to use them all the time!!
Check your spelling:
sing = sign
carful = careful (you spelt it right at the end so I know you know how to do it! 🙂 )
historial = history
onece = once
acount = account
thinks = things (thinks = verb, things = nouns)
Think about when you can use a stop (.) and a comma (,)
You can also include more connectors to make your sentences easier to read 🙂
“I think we can keep safe online *by* changing the password, *signing* out of all the pages, and never *saving* the password *on* your computer. ”
When you have a list like this ^ you should also make sure that all the verbs (change, sign, save) follow the same pattern (changing, signing, saving).
Very good effort! 🙂
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