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SCMP Reporter

Reading comprehension
Answer the following questions:
1 How many under-age girls were found to have received money for sex from a 61-year-old accountant in a recent case?
a. 10
b. 30
c. 61
d. 100
2 What has happened to girls who went on compensated dates?   
a. They  lost their concentration, which affected their studies.   
b. They were abused, humiliated or even murdered.
c. They  made their parents angry.
d. They caught sexually transmitted diseases.
3 What forces teenagers in poor countries into prostitution?
a. The desire to buy luxurious goods.
b. The need to earn money for food and shelter.
c. The ambition to earn tuitions fee so they can afford to go to school.  
d. None of the above.
4 Why is it that  girls who take part in compensated dating are more vulnerable to abuse and blackmail?
i) The men who pay for compensated dates take advantage of the fact that the girls do not want others to find out.
ii) When you step outside the law, you are no longer protected by it.
iii) The girl is with the man alone.
a. i) and ii)
b. i) and iii)
c. ii) and iii)
d. all of the above
Think about
1 What is the danger of having sex with a  total stranger?
2 What, instead of money, should be the basis  of a healthy relationship?
3 Will compensated dating leave a mental scar?  
4 Does money  bring happiness?
5  Why are teenage girls so attracted to designer goods?
Follow-up activities
1 Design a  poster to put online to  urge young girls not to take part in compensated dating. 
2 Debate this motion: Teenagers should have the right to decide what to do with their lives as long as what they do does not hurt others.
Answers:
March 9
1. b, 2. d, 3. c, 4. c



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