READING

A. Match the word on the left with its equivalent on the right:

1. graft (line 7) 1__F___ a) restrict

2. insert (line 8) 2______ b) hurt
3. confine (line 16) 3______ c) a big piece or board where a street is placed
4. spark (line 21) 4______ d) produce
5. harm (line 23) 5______ e) put (a thing) in or between
6. hoarding (line 29) 6______ f) a piece of living tissue transplanted surgically

B. Find evidence in the text for the following statements:

1. Kristen wasn’t happy with her appearance.

2. She decided to have her lips thickened.

3. She wants to have another operation.

4. Not only upper social classes have this type of surgery.

5. Men are also interested in changing their appearance.

C. Answer the following questions based on the information given in the text:

1. What is your personal opinion about “plastic surgery”?

2. Why do so many people have plastic surgery?

3. Is this type of surgery safe? Explain.

4. What happens to boys? Are they pressured to having a perfect body?

D. What do these words refer to in the text?

1. which (line 4) -
2. it (line 17) –
3. their (line 23) –
4. them (line 33) –

WRITING
A. Use the PRESENT SIMPLE, PAST SIMPLE or the PRESENT PERFECT of the verbs in
brackets to fill in the blanks.

1. The first Wall Street crash ___________________(not/happen) in 1927.

2. Harvard University ______________________(teach) upper class students for generations.
3. _______________________________(you/ever/meet) a Harvard student?
4. In the 60s and 70s American students _________________(listen) to protest songs against
Vietnam War.
5. Kurt Cobain ______________(begin) his career in the early 80s.
6. Some important singers ______________________(yet/perform) in Portugal _______.
7. Mike ____________________________(always/buy) his favourite band latest CDs.
8. ________________________________(you/ever/hear) about Cliff Richard?

B. Complete the text using the words in the box:

percentage – fast – contribution – teenagers – earn – weekends – clothes – strict – teachers – tired
TOO TIRED TO STUDY?
In America more and more ______________ are doing a job in the evenings and at __________
when they are not at school. Many teenagers of 16-19 work up 17 hours a week in _________
food restaurants or shops.
Only a small ______________ of working teenagers save any of the money they ___________.
Most of them spend all the money they get immediately on _______________ and going out to
enjoy themselves. A few say that they make some ______________ to family finances.
Now some teachers are complaining that pupils are too ___________ to work when they come to
school.
The law is not very __________ about working schoolchildren, so teenagers will go on working,
whether their ______________ want them to or not.

teenagers – weekends – fast – percentage – earn – clothes – contribution – tired – strict – teachers

C. Rewrite these sentences using a conditional sentence:

1. Many adolescents in Asia have their noses reconstructed because a nose surgery is quite cheap.
(TYPE 2)
If...

2. Samantha doesn’t waste money, so she can have a fortune in the bank in a few years. (TYPE 1)
If...

3. Peter works after school and he learns how to deal with money. (TYPE 1)
If...

4. John doesn’t have an after school job, that’s why he doesn’t have gain a sense of independence
and self-respect (TYPE 2)
If...