Wednesday morning at 5 o clock as the day------------------- ( begins / starts),

Silently closing the bedroom --------------- ( door / window)Leaving the ----------------- ( letter / note) that she

Hoped would say moreShe goes downstairs to the ----------------------------- ( dining room / kitchen)

------------------------- (Clutching / Holding) her handkerchiefQuietly turning the backdoor key

Stepping outside she is ( free / independent).

She

We gave her most of our lives.

Is leaving

Sacrificed most of our lives.

Home.

We gave her everything money could buy.She is leaving home after living alone for so many years.

Is it easy to be young?

SMOKING

CHOOSING FRIENDS

DRINKING ALCOHOL

GOING DISCO

DRESSING

SPENDING POCKET

MONEY

STUDYING

At 12You can get a pet without your parents consent.

At 13You can get a job. But the law allows you to work only 2 hours a day on school days.

At 14You can enter a bar, you can only buy soft drinks (non-alcohol). The law forbids to buy or

to drink alcohol.The law makes you fully responsible for your criminal actions.

Boys (not girls) can be sent to a special prison.At 15

You can see a category-15 film at the cinema.

At 16You can leave school. But you are intitled to recieve fulltime education until you are 19.

The law permits you to work fulltime if you have left school.You can apply for your own passport.

Boys can join the army.You have to pay full ticket on trains and on busses and the tube in London.

You can marry if your parents permit you to do it.

At 17You can get a license to drive a car and ride a motorbike.

Girls can join the army.

At 18You are an adult. You do not need your parents permission for anything. You can get

married, vote, borrow money from the bank.

NOT FAIRI get 1.50 dollars pocket money, but most of my friends get much more. When I ask my Mum and

Dad for more, they say Ican have more, if I help in house, but I do not see, why I should. Mum is at home all day and it is her job to look afternthe house, not mine. What do you think?

SHARON, 14WEIGHT PROBLEM

Girls do not find me attrective and I think the reason is that I am fat. Ever since, I was about 7, I have been on the chubby side. But it did not worry me, until now. I have lots of friends, but not the

type, I would like.PETER, 14

BULLIES AT SCHOOLPlease. Help me, because I am in terrible trouble. There are bullies at my school who hit me and kick me. And they say, I have to give them money or they will really hurt me. I am frightened of

them. I have not got any money to give them. Please, tell me what to do.JEREMY, 14

ROSES AND RED...I am in love with a girl who is very attractive. A friend introduced us. She does not know how I fell. I have her address and telephone number, but I do not know what to do. Should I call her? I could

send hersome roses... If I send something, what should I write on the card?ANDREW, 14

WRITE A SHORT ESSAY ABOUT YOUR FAMILY.