How Bad Are British Youth?

The vision of Britain as a teenage wasteland full of drunk and disaffected kids is as old as the notion of modern youth culture itself. Moreover, in times like these – coloured by high unemployment, rising tuition costs, cuts to social welfare and a steadily declining marriage rate (resulting in an increase of single-parent families) – it seems a no-brainer that the youth of today would be doing what bored, broke, idle kids are famed for doing best: getting wasted and raising hell.

Read more in Access to English: Social Studies, pp. 251-253. Then do the tasks in the textbook and on this website.

A typical British youth? Read the text and find out! A typical British youth? Read the text and find out!