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ACTIVITY 2 Complete the paragraph with the simple present form of the verbs in the Word Box. You may use a verb more than once.
WORD BOX
Stupid Things
• smoke • ask • stand • throw • hate • know • doubt • be • care • drop out • do • say • want • get
Why
people
stupid
things? Some people, mostly teenage boys, on overpasses and
things
at cars. (neg., contracted form) they kids
to kill people? Many of school. They
school
that
boring. They
fun and, for them, school homework. So they
to have not fun. Also, they a job at a fast-food restaurant and
all day long they
the customers, “
fries with that?”
that fun? I
it. And another thing: A lot of young people They
you cigarettes.
they can get cancer, but
they (neg., contracted form)
.
How stupid is that?
GLOSSARY overpasses: noun a bridge that passes over a road or a railway drop out: verb to stop attending school
In your opinion, who wrote this rant? Explain your thinking.
• teenage girl • teenage boy • parent • other
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I think it is a(n)
because
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that stupid?