LISTENING UNIT 4

1. Where is he? B. a youth club

2. What does he like to do? C. sign up in a self-defence course

3. What does she feel? A. regret

4. Who was seen holding the gun? A. Mrs Anderson

5. What did the police find? B. a dead man and an empty case

6. For whom does the new law require stiff penalties? C. repeat offenders

7. What must teenagers Internet users do? A. know their limits

8.What is she telling them to do? B. not always obey their peers

TEXT

Nowadays there are lots of teenage street gangs that make people feel less safe and more in danger.

For this reason lots of people start to take self-defence classes, in particular women, because they are the first victims of this new situation.

With a self-defence course someone learns how to protect himself from the dangers he will find in the streets or in other dangerous places.

In this way you can feel more in safe and you will be able to go wherever you want.

But why today are there so many street gangs?

Particularly in big cities, in the suburbs there are lots of teenagers who form a group to command an area of the city.

They scare the habitants and they impose their control.

Sometimes there will be a fight between different gangs for the domain of a zone.

At this age teenagers need to belong to a group to feel less alone and stronger.

For this reason they try to follow what the others do, even if it is wrong.

Sometimes, following wrong people, they fall in a group that takes them on a wrong way.

So it is necessary that parents follow their children at the beginning of the adolescence to see the friends they are making and the paths they are taking. In this way they can help them doing the right things and learn how to face the first important decisions of the life.