Reading 1 semester (9 grade)

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Mytchett Community Centre

Contact: Mrs L. West

140 Mytchett Road, Mytchett, Surrey

Tel: 01252 373073

Contact Mrs L. West on Monday, Thursday and Friday mornings. For details of the current youth work programme log onto our site www.mytchett-community-centre.co.uk

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The Old Dean Youth Centre

Contact: Mr Jeremy Crouch (Youth Leader)

Kingston Road

Camberley GU15 4AE

Tel: 01276 66225

The centre caters for all sorts of groups of any age. We are first and foremost a Youth Club open four nights a week for young people. We do not have a membership system. We do, however, keep name and address of users for health and safety reasons.

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One of the world’s most (1)…           [seriously, serious] problems is the use of child labour. June 12 is the World Day Against Child Labour. All around the world people will take (2)...       [apart, part] in activities to raise awareness of the damage child labour (3)…       [does, doing] to children, families and societies. The day is also one on which the world (4)…           [promotion, promotes] the human rights of children. The United Nations (5)…     [set, let] out in its Millennium Development Goals a number of targets to help prevent child labour. By 2015, it hopes all children (6)…          [compete, complete] their primary education and that there is (7)…          [equals, equality] in education. To do this, governments must take steps to reduce poverty and (8)…           [provide, provision] enough jobs for adults. These are the two main reasons why we have child labour today.

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The punk subculture appeared in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa in the mid-to-late-1970s, and has since undergone several developments.

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The punk subculture is centred around listening to recordings or live concerts of a loud, aggressive genre of rock music. Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. It is rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, usually shortened to punk. Most punk rock uses guitars and noisy drumming that are derived from 1960s garage rock.

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Punks try to shock people with the highly theatrical use of clothing: ripped clothing is held together by safety pins or wrapped with tape; ordinary clothing is decorated with marker or with paint; a black basket liner becomes a dress, shirt or skirt; safety pins and razor blades are used as jewellery.

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Some punks make their hair stand in spikes, cut it into Mohawks (a hairstyle which consists of shaving both sides of the head, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair) or other dramatic shapes, often colouring it with vibrant, unnatural colours.

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The punk subculture has developed a variety of dancing styles, which appear chaotic and violent.