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Activity created by Pepa Cejas Vega (Colegio Maravillas, Benalmádena)
(extract from "The reporter" magazine, March 2002 edition. Page 11)
YOUTH-LATE NIGHTS ALCOHOL
For Gonzalo Robles, government delegate in the Plan Against
Drugs, this (youth- late nights alcohol) is the disturbing triangle that has prompted
the Interior Ministry to propose a series of new laws aimed at eradicating Spain´s
"botellones".
Residents of town and city centres will be well aware
of the problem : millions of teenagers throughout Spain congregating and drinking
in the streets into the early hours of weekend morning, leaving behind them piles
of rubbish and the stench of urine and stale beer.
Youths and other groups
argue that under-age drinking is not a new trend; that Spain's liberal attitude
towards alcohol and drug consumption is a model for other tightly controlled societies
with more serious problems of abuse; that young revellers are forced into the
streets because of the high price of drinks served in bars and night-clubs…
The government sees it another way, however, and has decided to impose stricter
limits on drinking in public areas and to increase the legal age for buying alcohol
from 16 to 18, as well as other measures.
COMPREHENSION (4 points)
ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT, IN YOUR OWN WORDS (1 point per answer)
1. Which reasons do youths give against the new laws to control "botellones"?
2.
Which two measures have been taken by the government, which are
Mentioned
in the article?
ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT (0.5 per answer)
·
The new laws will try to put an end to "botellones"
· The
habit of drinking alcohol at a young age is not new in Spain
· Right
now you needn't be 16 to buy alcohol
· Botellones take place throughout
Spain, everyday
USE OF ENGLISH (3 POINTS)
1.
Find an expression in the text with the same meaning as "besides"
2. Find a word in the text which means "very bad smell"
3. Give
a synonym for "congregating" (line 6)
4. Underline the word with
a different consonant sound in the end abused congregated demanded escaped
5. "I am sorry that I drank so much last night" (Rephrase using "I
wish")
6. "You have to clean all this mess before you go home"
(Report what the
policeman said last Saturday to you and your friends)
7. "Young people make noise and leave piles of rubbish behind. Residents usually call the police" (turn this sentence into a conditional, using "provided")
8.
" Bar owners have organized a protest. They feel the measures are
unfair"
(Join with a relative pronoun).
PRODUCTION (3 POINTS)
WRITE A COMPOSITION (80-100 WORDS) ABOUT ONE OF THESE OPTIONS
a) Drinking
alcohol: a dangerous habit
b) In defence of "Botellones"
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