Thursday, February 6, 2025

Vocabulary: A hard lesson

Vinsight Collocations: crime
1Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in the box. 
You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.
    MOVE
  • spend
  • pay
  • get
  • arrest
  • punish
  • charge
  • commit
  • appear
  • 1Nowadays, more and more young people are  into trouble and  in court because they take knives to school.

  • 2A school in Chicago  students for breaking minor rules. For example, students have to  a $5 fine if they don't look at the teacher when he or she is speaking.

  • 3In 2008, students  more than 7,000 violent crimes in UK schools.

  • 4In 2010, British police finally  a nineteen-year-old man and  him with breaking the law 660 times.

  • 5Every year, 20,000 teenagers  time in Feltham Prison in England. Some prisoners are only fifteen years old.

Vinsight Negative prefixes: un-, im-, ir- and il-
2Which adjective in each group below cannot be used with the negative prefix? 
  • 1un-

     

  • 2im-

     

  • 3ir-

     

  • 4il-

     

  • 5im-

     

Vinsight Negative prefixes: un-, im-, ir- and il-
3Replace the words or phrases in the sentences below with the adjectives in exercise 2. 
You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.
  • 130% of children under eleven feel sad in school.

  • 2Teenagers today are rude to older people.

  • 3About 6% of the world's children are unable to read or write.

  • 4Teenagers who don't go to school are behaving in a childish way.

  • 5School rules are not correct in every way, but they are important.

  • 6It is not normal for teenagers to commit crimes, says the report.

VSchool: bad behaviour
4Complete the report with the words in the box. 
    MOVE
  • vandalizing
  • expel
  • bullying
  • truant
  • detention
  • swearing
  • suspend
  • warning

APPLETON HIGH SCHOOL

SCHOOL DISCIPLINARY REPORT: Sally Stewart

BAD BEHAVIOUR:

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1  younger children: Sally has used violence to take money from students.

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2  school property: Sally has broken a window and a computer at the school.

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3  at teachers: Sally uses bad language in the classroom.

• Playing 

4 : Sally often does not come to school.

PREVIOUS PUNISHMENTS:

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5 : The school has told Sally to change her behaviour five times.

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6 : Sally has had to stay at school after 4 p.m. six times.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

• The school should 

7  Sally from school for one month.

• If Sally continues to behave badly on her return, the school should 

8  her.

VSchool: bad behaviour
5Complete the article with the words in the box. Use one word in each space. 
    MOVE
  • spend
  • pay
  • get
  • arrest
  • punish
  • charge
  • commit
  • appear
  • happy
  • immature
  • perfect
  • think
  • moral
  • rational
  • responsible
  • legal
  • possible
  • literate
  • polite
  • usual
  • possible
  • vandalize
  • expel
  • bully
  • truant
  • detention
  • swear
  • suspend
  • fight
  • warn

Teenager sent to prison

In May 2012, a seventeen-year-old student called Diane Tran had to

 

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time in prison because she missed classes and played

 

2

 

from her school in Houston, Texas. When she

 

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in court, the judge sent her to prison for twenty-four hours, and told her to

 

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a fine of $100. He wanted to give a

 

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to other students in the city: Don't miss school!

Missing school is

 

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in Texas and students do go to court. Diane knew this. So why did she do it? Some students miss school because they behave in a very young, childish way or because they do things without thinking about what will happen, but Diane isn't

 

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or

 

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. She couldn't go to school because she had a full-time job. She had no parents at home, and had to look after her baby brother. Her personal situation was very

 

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– it isn't normal for seventeen-year-olds to have to work to look after their family. It seems unfair that the judge decided to

 

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her for missing school in such a hard way.

6  Imagine that you are the head teacher of a school. Decide what punishments to give the two students below. Speak for no longer than one minute.

  • Adam Hardy , aged 16, vandalized a school property and swore at a teacher. It's not the first time.
  • Susie Lee, aged 15, fought a girl who stole her mobile phone. She broke the girl's nose.

  1.  Select Record Audio to record yourself.
  2.  If you want to add a note to your teacher, write it in the Comments box.
  3.  Select Submit to dropbox to send the recording to your teacher.


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