9th form "About British Teenagers" (Test / Grammar)

1. When they are not at school, eating or doing ____ homework, young people in their teens spend a lot of time in their own neighbourhoods with friends either in the streets or in each oyher's homes.

2. Surveys show ____ only few young people attend youth clubs.

3. Most young people are ____ in activities that do not cost money.

4. Lack of their own money in the younger age group _____ that a great deal of time is spent with friends window-shopping in town, cycling or skateboarding.

5. In the older age group, those, ____ are still at school, they are restricted in their activities.

6. Young men and women who started ____ properly spend much time in cafes, go to dances, concerts and the cinemas.

7. Parents do not a;ways give ____ children a set amount of pocket money each week.

8. Some people give money in return for ____ part in household chores, ranging from washing up dishes to cleaning bedrooms or washing the family car.

9. Young people, aged 12 upwards, earn money ____ washing windows or cars, delivering the early morning newspapers before school, mowing lawns and so on.

10. For those aged 14 and above, baby-sitting is by far ____ means of earning extra money.

11. At 15 and above young people often find themselves "Saturday jobs" _____ as assistants in shops.

12. But money is always a problem. There are a lot of things ____ young people wish to buy including clothes, computer games, phones and others.