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PART 8
SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Unit 1
Teenage problems
1.1 Ответьте на вопросы.
• Are teenagers a problem in your country?
• Do teenagers have problems in your country?
• Why should teenagers be more of a problem than, say, middle-aged
people or babies?
• Why should they have the prerogative on having problems?
1.2 Прочтите текст WHAT IS A TEENAGER?
Догадайтесь о значении следующих слов и выражений
из текста.
betters and elders = older people who are (or should be!) wiser
horrendous = terrible, extremely bad
to gawp at = to look at something in a foolish way, esp. with the mouth
open
preoccupations = things that you think about more than anything else
as far as I'm concerned = in my opinion
skinny = thin
set me thinking = made me begin to think about it
to come up with = to think of, invent
in actual fact = really, actually
to get hung up on = to worry too much about
1.3 Прочтите текст и сравните свои представления и
тинейджерах и информацию из текста.
WHAT IS A TEENAGER?
Officially, of course, a teenager is anyone aged from thirteen to
nineteen inclusive but most people would probably think first of the
younger age group and exclude 18 and 19-year-olds. After all, once you

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