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Pre-listening vocabulary task

1. Match each of the following words/phrases (on the left) with the correct meaning (on the
right)

1. Plagiarism - h a. Having many different aspects

2. Fabrication - b b. False information that is invented in
order to trick people
3. Proofread - e c. A situation in which it is expected
that information will be kept secret
4. Contract cheating - j d. An action by a student or course
instructor that involves gaining an
unfair advantage in any formal
assessment, such as coursework or
exams
5. Assignment brief - l e. To read and correct a piece of
written or printed work
6. Academic offense - d f. Something that makes someone less
likely to do something
7. Confidentiality - c g. A person hired to write something
for someone else (also known as a
ghost writer)
8. Originality – i h. The act of copying another person’s
ideas, words, or work and
pretending that they are your own
9. Unethical - k i. The quality of being new and
interesting in a way that is different
from anything that existed before
10. Shadow author - g j. The practice of students hiring
other people to complete
assignments for them
11. Multifaceted - a k. Something that is morally wrong
12. Deterrent - f l. A detailed form that provides clear
instructions for completing a piece
of work

2. Now choose the appropriate word/phrase to complete the gap in the following sentences

a) We now have the Assignment brief for our research essay on the 2021 online PEASS
course

b) Due to the scale of the problem, a Multifaceted approach is needed to tackle the
plastic crisis in countries such as Malaysia

c) Sometimes, a student can unknowingly be guilty of Plagiarism if they simply forget

to use quotation marks when using another author’s words

d) As a solution to tackling the rise in Contract cheating expulsion from the university
could serve as a useful Deterrent
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e) Plagiarism is an extremely serious Academic offense

f) I prefer to hand in a piece of work that shows some Originality (even if the English is
not perfect) rather than hire a Shadow author to write it for me

g) My ghost writer signed a confidentiality agreement

h) I asked my friend to Proofread my essay for me, because her English is much better
than mine

i) My tutor said that much of the information in my assignment was complete

Fabrication, since I did not do my research properly and instead used false
information.

j) It is simply Unethical to cheat in order to gain a university qualification