A) What prepositions are the verbs below followed by?

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B) The statements above are taken from news reports. Which of the statements above is not true?

A) Test your prepositions knowledge. Fill in the gaps in the statements below with prepositions.

C) Discuss the questions below in pairs.

B) Read the article and match the introductory statements to the paragraphs.

Do you ever feel bored? What do you do to get rid of boredom? Which idea in the article do you find exciting or enjoyable? Which one is not new? Which activity wouldn't entertain you at all? Which one would you recommend to your partner? Why?

1. Tech-smart teenagers tend to suffer ... headaches. 2. Normally, teens count … selling, movie theatres and fast food for part-time work. 3. When parents and teens cannot agree … a curfew, the way out is to use
the community curfew. 4. About 80% of the diet for teenagers should consist … milk; eggs and meat. 5. Message research shows that teens care more … what their peers think of them, at present, than a possibility of getting some horrible illness from smoking in the future. 6. Brief, voluntary conversations with a health educator led … up to a 20 percent
decrease in alcohol use for teenagers for at least a year. 7. Most teens hate when blatantly skinny girls insist … saying "I'm fat". 8. Teenagers, by nature, are driven to separate themselves …their parents and become individual, autonomous beings.

Example: look at sth

complain, think, play, belong, borrow, stare, pay, check, qualify, result, laugh, dream, wish, succeed, matter, search, talk, gaze, pick, respond, argue, comment, sympathize, engage, speak, complain, focus, assist, remind