Teen Safety Issues: Cosmetic Surgery Trends and Pedestrian Headphone Risks

English Grammar: Active to Passive Voice Transformations

Review of Active Voice (AV) to Passive Voice (PV) conversions:

• Simple Forms:
  • Read (AV) → is read (PV)
  • Bought (AV) → were bought (PV)
  • Will pay (AV) → will be paid (PV)
• Continuous Forms:
  • Is cooking (AV) → is being cooked (PV)
  • Were discussing (AV) → was being discussed (PV)
• Perfect Forms:
  • Have done (AV) → have been done (PV)
  • Had cleaned (AV) → had been cleaned (PV)
  • Will have finished (AV) → will have been finished (PV)

Teenagers Seeking Cosmetic Surgery: Key Findings

Summary of Reading Comprehension Points

1. The primary motivation for seeking surgery is being worried about physical appearance. (p. 1)
2. Sandra believes her father funded her operation to provoke anger in Sandra's mother. (p. 2)
3. Dr. Bradbury suggests plastic surgery can sometimes be beneficial for individuals unhappy with their physical appearance. (p. 3)
4. Anny advocates for establishing a minimum age limit for cosmetic surgery procedures. (p. 4)

Analysis of Statements

Statement 1:

True. Teenagers are deciding to undergo plastic surgery in growing numbers. (p. 1)

Statement 2:

True. (p. 4)

Key Vocabulary from the Text

• Clinics (p. 1, line 2)
• Consent (p. 2, line 1)
• Free (p. 4, line 2)
• Vulnerable (p. 4)

Safety Risks: Why Headphones Pose a Danger to Pedestrians

Causes and High-Risk Demographics

1. The danger arises because users are distracted, fail to pay attention to signals, and cannot hear warnings. (p. 3-4)
2. The population groups most at risk are men and people under 30. (p. 1-2)

Understanding Inattentional Blindness

What is Inattentional Blindness?

The term inattentional blindness describes how pedestrians wearing headphones fail to notice signals or hear warnings because of the audio distraction. (p. 4)

Accident Prevention

Preventing Headphone-Related Accidents

According to Kevin Clinton, accidents can be prevented if pedestrians maintain awareness of their immediate surroundings. (p. 5)

Analysis of Safety Statements (True/False)

Justify your answers based on information from the text:

1. The number of injuries has increased.

   True. The text confirms that “the number of people who died or were injured jumped from 16 in 2004-2005 to 47 in 2010-2011.” (p. 2)

2. The main safety issue is the inability to hear warnings.

   True. The text states that “...wearing headphones may have played a direct part in many of the accidents, because the users could not hear warnings that they were in danger.” (p. 3)

Vocabulary Matching

Words and Definitions from the Text

• Damage, harm: injury (p. 1, l. 2)
• Things said or written to tell people of possible danger: warnings (p. 3, l. 4)
• People who are walking in a town/city: pedestrians (p. 3, l. 5)
• Confused/ not properly concentrated: distracted (p. 5, l. 3)