The story of Marta

Marta had two jobs, one while her children were in school and one after the youngest had gone to bed. Unable to afford childcare, she left her 16-year-old daughter Gabriella in charge of the younger children when she went to work in the evening. What Marta didn’t know was that Gabriella had started sneaking out of the house after her younger brothers and sisters were asleep. During her nighttime outings, Gabriella had discovered a world of gangs, drugs and older men. None of these were ever told her mother, of course, until Gabriella got picked up by the police one evening for violating curfew. The detention center to which she was taken was stuffed by police and counselors specially trained to deal with teens in trouble, and they were able to help Gabriella and her mother create a plan for keeping all of Marta’s children safe. Had a curfew law not existed, Marta may never have discovered her daughter’s secret trips until after a disaster had occurred.

A) Determine whether this story is narrated by a curfew supporter or a curfew attacker. Substantiate your view.

B) Fill in the table writing pros and cons of curfew. Compare the results with your partner’s. Compare what you have more – pros or cons.

Curfew
pros	cons

C) Express your attitude to curfew as a necessary means of protecting teenagers in an increasingly violent way. Say whether your parents imposed curfew in your family and whether it was effective.

Each of the words in bold is in the wrong sentence. Write the correct word.

You’ve been Framed!

The most incredible arresthappened to me yesterday. I was walking home from school when I saw a thiefon the ground full of money. I picked it up, and was just about to take it to the policestation to hand it in, when a police walletjumped out and told me I was under policeforstealing. I tried to explain the situation but he wouldn’t thingdown. ”I won’t let you get away with this,” he said. “You’re aofficer; and thieves have to be punished.” He beggedme and drove me to the police station, where he took down my name and address. Istarted crying, and handcuffedhim to let me off, again trying to explain that I wasn’tgoing to keep the money. Suddenly, my best friend Adrian and a TV presenter came in and the takenofficer started laughing. It was a practical joke for a TV show, and I’d been completely backin!

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