A sixth-former at Wendeles Secondary School, was arrested yesterday for selling marijuana to junior pupils.(1) He blamed his friends for getting him hooked on it. "First time I had it was at a friend's house on a Saturday evening. It had been planned beforehand to get me stoned (unable to behave normally), which I was rather angry at first. (2) I only smoked it when I was offered it at big parties. At first it was just like smoking a cigarette but getting a pleasant effect as well. I kept laughing.(3)But in the end I was excited about taking it. Then I met somebody who said they could get the stuff real easy. My friends started coming to me for it. Then this person started getting heavy. He wanted me to startsniffing other things, but I refused. I know what other drugs do to people. No way would I inject anything.(4)It only takes two weeks of heroin, two or three times a week, to be addicted." Police inspector James said, "That's the way these kids often get hooked. The 'hard' drug pushers start them on something like marijuana and then say, "Why don't you just sniff a bit of this" or "Just put a bit of this in your drink," and before they know it, they're hooked on heroin, cocaine or amphetamines.(5) I think that’s disgusting.
Masha lives in Moscow and is 13 years (1)_old__. She’s got a hew pen friend called Claudia, who’s German. They send e-mails (2) _to__ each other in English, but Masha feels she’s not very good (3)_at_writing e-mails in English and wants to improve. Paulo is 15. He’s very good at English, but he has (4) __to have an important exam at the end of the year and he’s not looking forward to it. He isn’t sure if it’s a good idea to stay up all night (5) _before___ an exam. He’d like to know what the best ways to prepare for an exam are. Freda enjoys her English classes at (6) __school_, but she does badly when they have grammar tests. She knows what present simple and present continuous are, but she (7) __makesmistakes when she uses them. She wants a book which she can use to study at home to help (8) _to__ improve her grammar. Jonathan loves English lessons in the classroom, but he’s not fond (9) _of___ doing homework. He spends hours every evening doing, it, but his teacher is often unhappy with what he (10)_has__done. He needs some help! Irini is 14 years old. She finds her lessons a bit boring sometimes, and is not very good at being quiet (11) __in__ class. Her teachers often tell her to behave. She doesn’t want to get a bad report at the (12) _end_of term, but she thinks she will. She’s beginning to think she wants to try to be better in class.
"First time I had it was at a friend's house on a Saturday evening. It had been planned beforehand to get me stoned (unable to behave normally), which I was rather angry at first. (2) I only smoked it when I was offered it at big parties.
At first it was just like smoking a cigarette but getting a pleasant effect as well. I kept laughing.(3)But in the end I was excited about taking it. Then I met somebody who said they could get the stuff real easy. My friends started coming to me for it. Then this person started getting heavy. He wanted me to startsniffing other things, but I refused. I know what other drugs do to people. No way would I inject anything.(4)It only takes two weeks of heroin, two or three times a week, to be addicted."
Police inspector James said, "That's the way these kids often get hooked. The 'hard' drug pushers start them on something like marijuana and then say, "Why don't you just sniff a bit of this" or "Just put a bit of this in your drink," and before they know it, they're hooked on heroin, cocaine or amphetamines.(5) I think that’s disgusting.