Номер 1, страница 37 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс учебник Вербицкая, Каминс Карр

Think Back Revision 1. Units 1-3. Reading skills - номер 1, страница 37.

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READING SKILLS

1 Complete the article with seven of sentences a-i. There are two extra sentences.

Generation gap: you don't understand

Times have changed, and you often just don't seem to keep up. So here are some useful tips for parents/carers/adults from eighteen-year-old Jess – read them carefully and don't make the same mistakes again.

• You don't understand 'non-uniform' days. We may have 700 items of clothing in our wardrobes but none is suitable for the look we want. Fashion is always changing. ¹ ___ And as for trainers – don't get me started. We can't have the cheap ones that look like well-known brands. They must be the real thing. Everybody now wears designer labels. ² ___

• Just give us a break, please ... Even if we have been with our friends all day, we'll always phone them again and again on their mobiles. It makes perfect sense. ³ ___ Lines of communication are always open between best mates.

• Sometimes we don't want to talk and just need time to ourselves, but this doesn't mean that you're a bad parent. Give us some space, and we'll come back to you when we're ready. ⁴ ___

• You don't realise that the mood swings and arguments we have are down to the pressure we come under at school and from friends. With exams starting from Year 9, when we're just fourteen, the pressure starts to build up and it seems that life is all about doing well in the SATs and later in GCSEs.

• And here is a good one! It is NOT funny to tell our friends stories about us in our nappies. It's humiliating. ⁵ ___ So don't keep on embarrassing us and just drop it.

• It seems that language has changed too ... When we say boyfriend/girlfriend sometimes we just mean a boy or girl that is a friend. ⁶ ___ It's perfectly normal to have a lot of friends of the opposite sex. Wasn't it like that in your day?

• And don't worry, we don't expect you to change. There are some things adults will never understand about teenagers. ⁷ ___ And we won't try to turn you into Supermum and Superdad. And let's keep it that way, OK?

a No need to make wedding plans or worry that you'll have to push a pram around soon.

b Surely, you wouldn't like us to stick out and be the butt of everybody's jokes.

c It's annoying to be told you're a young adult and then to be treated like a child when you give your opinion.

d What we did when we were babies has nothing to do with what we are like now.

e What's more, new clothes feel good and are always a talking point when you first wear them.

f So don't bother trying to impose your views on us.

g Today the most important topics of conversation are new relationships and clothes.

h After all, everyone has the right to privacy, so don't we deserve it too?

i Exciting things may have happened and they have to be discussed immediately.

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