7. Paraphrase the following sentences using the Complex Subject.

1. People consider the climate there to be very healthful. 2. It was announced that the Chinese danc­ers were arriving next week. 3. It is expected that the performance will be a success. 4. It is said that the book is popular with both the old and the young. 5. It is believed that the poem was written by an unknown soldier. 6. It is supposed that the playwright is working at a new comedy. 7. It is reported that the flood has caused much damage to the crops.

8. There are a lot of stories about Arthur but nobody knows whether they are true. Make sentences with He is said.

Model: People say that Arthur eats too much. Arthur is said to eat too much.

1. People say that Arthur is very rich. Arthur _______.

2. People say that he has 10 children. He _______.

3. People say that he sleeps only 4 hours. He _______.

4. People say that he won a lot of money gambling. He _______.

5. People say that he writes poetry. He _______.

9. Use supposed to or not supposed to with one of these verbs.

come be clean phone study take

Model. Why are the windows still dirty? You were supposed to clean them.

1. What are the children doing at home? They _______ at school.

2. He _______ in the evenings but he always goes out.

3. Don't put sugar in your tea. You know you _______ sugar.

4. Oh dear! I _______ Ann but I completely forgot.

5. They arrived very early - at 2.00. They _______ until 3.30.

Unit 8 reading

1. Read the headline of the article below. What do you think the article is about? Explain your answer.

SWEET SICK TEENS?

2. Read the preface to the same article below.

Letting your teenagers throw a party is just asking for trouble. And the outcome is always so predictable

Why do you think the author uses the expression "sweet sick teens"? It's an allusion to a cliche whose form is a bit similar. Which one? What kind of trouble are parents asking for? What may happen? Have you ever taken part in parties of the kind? Did anything bad happen? Can anything be done about it?

3. You are going to read an article by C. Middleton from the Sunday Times about teenagers' parties. Choose the most suitable headings from the list ( A-G ) to each part (0-7) of the article. There is one extra heading which you don't need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0).

A	15 years to get over bad feelings
В	Parents' weekend horror	0
С	Unwanted guests from the pub
D	Ketchup party
E	A nightmare of a party
F	Parents' revenge
G	The worst may come after the party
H	A set of simple rules
I	Prisoners in their own house

4. Read the article below. Think of the following questions while you read: What happens at teenagers parties? Can parents control the process? Are there any ways to prevent the trouble? What is the author's general attitude to such parties? Explain your answer.

0. Never again. That's the phrase that should be burnt into the carpets and lipsticked on the bathroom mirrors of every parent who has ever let teenagers throw a party at home. It's not as if the thrashing of houses by drunken adolescents is unheard of. Yet every weekend all over the country, thousands of wide-eyed adults are to be found nodding their heads and saying: "Oh well, if you're sure you don't want us around," to 16-year-olds with mayhem in mind.

1. Whatever went on at the high-spirited party of Laura Parker Bowles that Prince William attended recently, it can't have been worse than what happened at Rochelle Cohen's 15-th birthday party. Only now, 15 years later, can she and her father talk about it. Laughing about it can take another 15.

2. Exactly how many people crowded into her parents' north London home that night, she never found out. She recalls that the glass front door got smashed while she was trying to keep out a dozen or so extra gate-crashes, and that as a result she ended up in the kitchen with the arm completely soaked in blood. She also remembers rather vividly some of her friends taking the keys to her father's Land Rover and driving off in it round the capital. But the worst part was the aftermath, when her father came home, discovered that someone had taken 30 of his computer games and rang round the parents of all his daughter's guests to invite the thief to return them. "The party itself was a nightmare," complains Cohen, who hasn't thrown one since, "but everything that followed, was so ! hideously embarrassing." Nevertheless, it did the trick in terms of getting the games back. They had been taken as \ a dare by a boy from a wealthy family.

4. "There was a party," recalls Zoe Marks, "where a bunch of people filled the bath with tomato ketchup and mustard and jumped in. Then they all got in their cars and drove to Camber Sands, where they went swimming and lost all their clothes. So there were all these naked teenagers with ketchup-pink hair, crammed into a phone box at six in the morning, calling their parents and asking them to come to collect them."

5. There is, it seems, no limit to the deviousness of the average teenager. Tim Lott, a writer, remembers secretly having a key made to his uncle's house. "I had only intended to take a girl back there, but one of my mates got up in the pub and announced there was a party at my uncle's place. When I got there, a crowd of about 30 people was trying to get in, and my dad had to come and sort it out."

6. Mind you, those parents who decide to stay on the premises cannot expect a night of solid fun, either. When David and Helen Willmott said their daughter could have her 18^th party at their home at Bristol, they were made to promise they would shut themselves in their bedroom and not come out till midnight. When at about eleven David was bursting to use the loo, he made three attempts to get into the bathroom, but the door was always locked. David still doesn't know what was going on in his bathroom that night.

7. But it isn't enough to make you ban all parties for life, take advice from one seasoned parent, who has let five teenage daughters hold parties. "Rule A is don't let them mix drinks. Rule В is don't let them mix ages. There's a limit to what a load of 16-year-olds can get up to, but when you throw in a few 21-year-olds, the stakes go up. Finally, Rule С is don't mix social groups. When you've got a load of middle-class students going to a pub and telling there's a party back at their place, then you've got problems. And one more final tip. So long as you've got the phone numbers of the parents, you've still got some measure of control. But when you don't know who's in your house, you're asking for trouble." And let's face it. You don't have to ask too hard.