A new survey shows that only 10% of parents think their teenager has used alcohol in the last year, whereas 52% of teenagers report actually drinking. The survey suggests parents have "blinders on" and are more likely to accuse other parents' children of misbehavior than their own. A new poll from the University of Michigan found that parents still look at their children with blinders on, accusing other children while not believing their own children have used alcohol or drugs.

1. Poll: it is a survey.
PRESENT PERFECT ACTIVITIES
 How do you know a friend is drinking alcohol?
 Do you think students’ parents know when their offspring are using drugs or alcohol?
 In your opinion, it is easier that parents accuse other people's children misbehavior instead of theirs own?
1: Read the following text, then answer the question at the end of the text.
Do you agree a little percentage of parents don’t think their teenager has already used alcohol? Why?
2. According to the words in bold of the text match the uses of still, already and just in the past perfect simple tense.
Write the number in the parenthesis.
WRITING PART
You are invited to comment a friend’s experience with alcohol. It will be published in a newspaper. Please use only
their name. Tell us what you think their parents have already known, suspected or believed about the use of drugs
or alcohol. Have he/she been honest with them about drinking and using drugs? How she/he conceal the truth?
How would his/her parents react if they knew the truth? Write between 120-140 words.
1. Already ( ) is used for actions that haven´t happened, or haven´t finished. It is always
placed before the verb.
2. Just ( ) refers to something that has happened before we expected. It is usually
placed between auxiliary and verb.
3. Still ( ) is used for actions that have happened a very little time ago. It is placed
between the auxiliary and the verb.
If You Drink or Use Drugs, Do Your Parents Know?
By Holly Epstein Ojalvo
September 15th, 2011, 5:16 AM
A new survey has shown that only 10 percent of parents think their teenager has already used alcohol in
the last year. In a different poll*, 52 percent of teenagers said they have drunk. Have your parents already
thought– or suspect – the true of you and your friends’ drug or alcohol use? Or are they blind to the
truth?
On the Mykid blog, Lisa Belkin has just explained the new findings in “Drugs and Alcohol: Not My
Kid”:
A new poll from the University of Michigan C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital has found that parents still
have looked at their children with blinders on, while they have looked at other children accusingly.
Only 10 percent of them believe their teenagers have used alcohol in the last year, and half that
percentage believes their teenagers have already used marijuana.
Those same parents overestimate that other teenagers are doing that, guessing that 60 percent are
probably using alcohol and 40 percent are using marijuana.
Adapted from: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/

2. Poll: it is a survey.
KEY ANSWER
1. Already ( 3 ) is used for actions that haven´t happened, or haven´t finished.
It is always placed before the verb.
2. Just ( 1 ) refers to something that has happened before we expected. It
is usually placed between auxiliary and verb.
3. Still ( 2 ) is used for actions that have happened a very little time ago.
It is placed between the auxiliary and the verb.