GROWING UP UNHAPPY (1º NI B2)

Exercise 1

1. Nineteen.
2. Official statistics and surveys.
3. Becoming drunk on alcohol, smoking cigarettes and taking illegal drugs.
4. The proportion of households with less than half the national average income.
5. They had been bullied by other young people.
6. Families sitting down together regularly to share the main meal of the day.
7. The report says the education system is contributing to the problem by being too competitive.
8. It blames adults (for creating an individualistic society in which people are too concerned with their own objectives).

Exercise 2

1. D 2. F 3. T 4. D 5. T 6. T 7. T 8. T