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Child-Free Village: Neighborhood Issues

[1] The document discusses problems caused by young people in neighborhoods. Noise, bullying, and issues caused by youngsters are cited as the top three neighborhood problems in the UK. [2] It describes behaviors commonly seen as annoying from children and teenagers, such as making noise, playing sports in streets, graffiti, vandalism, and generally being a nuisance. [3] In response, one neighborhood in Scotland, called Firhall, has banned young people altogether in an attempt to gain more peaceful streets, making it the first and only official child-free village in Britain.

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Child-Free Village: Neighborhood Issues

[1] The document discusses problems caused by young people in neighborhoods. Noise, bullying, and issues caused by youngsters are cited as the top three neighborhood problems in the UK. [2] It describes behaviors commonly seen as annoying from children and teenagers, such as making noise, playing sports in streets, graffiti, vandalism, and generally being a nuisance. [3] In response, one neighborhood in Scotland, called Firhall, has banned young people altogether in an attempt to gain more peaceful streets, making it the first and only official child-free village in Britain.

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A village with no children

What problems do you have with your neighbours? Research suggests that in the UK,
problems include car parking issues, pets, rubbish and fence disputes. But the top three issues
are noise, bullying and problems caused by youngsters. Given that noise and bullying usually
involve youngsters too, it looks as if they are Britain’s top neighborhood troublemakers.
So what is it that annoys adults about children and teenagers? Well, they make noise,
play football in the street, skateboard on the pavement, join gangs, fight, drop litter, make a
mess, cover walls with graffiti, vandalise buildings and generally make a nuisance of
themselves. In fact, our streets would be much more peaceful if we got rid of them altogether.
Yes, simply ban young people! It sounds drastic, but that’s exactly what one
neighborhood has done. At Firhall, in Scotland, they have decided that they can no longer put
up with disturbance from kids. So they have made it Britain’s first, and only, child-free village.

1. In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer these questions: (3 points)

a/ What is a youngster?

b/ What are the top three problems the adults have with the young people?

c/ What is Firhall?

2. Are the following sentences TRUE or FALSE? (2 points)

a/ Young people do not make noise in the streets.


b/ Adults living at the Scottish village love children and youngsters.
c/ One neigbourhood has banned young people
d/ In Scotland, they have decided that they can put up with disturbance from kids.

3. Write the three types of conditional sentences with: (3 points)

1st type/ If anybody …..………(propose)a village which was segregated, it………....(be


declared) illegal.

2nd type/ If anybody……

3rd type/ If anybody……

4. Complete the following sentences with the correct passive form of the verbs in
brackets: (2 points)

a/ The painting was.…………………..(give)to the Museum of Modern Art in New York .


b/ It was…………(sell) by a rich man.
c/ The robber……………(not allow) to leave the country in the next three years.
d/ This story might………………………..(invent) by Jules Verne

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