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parents' car , he gets extra i money from the his grass parents. in the eung garden peopters and cleaning inudes his
would pay s0rmeone to clesan eny voom once a mont 1..If Ross does other
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household
Britain with those in nine other countries . fi Ross is. similar to -many British
E are more materialistic" than those in many other
teenagers today
Countries.
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hair cut.
souldn't go to a party unless I had something new to wear, I only
wear designer labels"
Materialism has a negative effect on teenagers because they become
more interested in wearing fashionable clothes and buying the latest things. In
fact, they no longer show än imterest to success studies and family life.
5:Some schools realise that materialismn is sometimes linked to bad
behaviour , and are trying to find ways of rewarding students for responsible
behaviour .Whether this will be successful remains to be ssen.
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Complete the text with the words below
I think 1 am becoming addicted to my computer I play games on it
About how
three tests at school
se I played computer games instead of studying l spend about 2 hours
a. night in chat rooms I can talk to all my friends and neww people are
l know l shouldn't spend so'
whenever I can .l also surf the web . My parents are .
much time I..
u.on the Internet.l have ,.
coming on line all the time so it's never.
u. time on line but l like saying whatever I think What should l do ?.
/ Your classmate thinks of leaving school because the lessons are
boring and the teachers are srict.
Write him/her a letter to advise him/her not to leave school and tell.
him/her about the importance of school.