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Peer pressure
"Peer pressure"* is very strong, especially among young people. Almost everyone can remember a moment when they did something because their friends were doing it. Teenagers often buy something just because their friends have it, and this thing comes into fashion. If teenagers didn’t imitate their friends’ behavior, there would be fewer social problems: smoking, crime and so on.
On the other hand, “peer pressure” can also produce positive results. Youth crime and vandalism in one of the districts of Bristol, a city in England, fell by 20% last year. Why? Because young people stopped doing stupid and anti-social things. Now they are trying to keep out of trouble. And it's all the result of a new project.
Two Bristol policemen organised a football league for teenagers in one of the poorest parts of the city. The idea is to prevent teenagers from committing crimes. They want to show teenagers how they can spend their free time in a better way.
The policemen introduced a system in which football results are connected to young people's behaviour outside the football grounds. Teams get points for winning their matches, but lose points if any team-member does anything he shouldn't on the football field or off it! For example, teams get ten points for winning a match, but if any player is arrested, the team loses ten points. If a member is caught doing an act of vandalism, such as spraying graffiti, the team loses five points. Three points are lost for less serious crimes.
The results in Bristol are great. None of the teenagers playing in the football league has been arrested by the police. Instead of doing antisocial things and causing problems these teenagers are trying to behave properly!
The idea is already getting popular in other parts of Britain, and similar programmes will be started in other cities. Social workers are also trying to use “peer pressure" to get other positive results. If some more original ways are found, levels of crime among young people will soon be falling quickly.
Some people also think that a similar system should be used for professional footballers. If a professional player gets into a fight on the football ground, his team loses points. In this way footballers will try to behave with more respect to other players.
Another example of positive “peer pressure” is that there are fewer teenagers who smoke or take drugs. This is the result of the growing popularity of mobile phones. A mobile has become a new symbol of growing up. Teenagers no longer need to smoke to show that they are adults. Now they want to get a phone as cool as their classmates have.
*Peer pressure – the strong influence of a group, especially of children, on the members of that group to behave as everyone else does.

Результаты (русский) 1:

Давление со стороны сверстников«Давление со стороны сверстников» * является очень сильным, особенно среди молодежи. Почти каждый может вспомнить момент, когда они сделали что-то, потому что их друзья делают это. Подростки часто покупают что-то только потому, что их друзья есть, и эта вещь приходит в моду. Если подростки не имитировать поведение своих друзей, будет меньше социальных проблем: Курение, преступность и так далее.С другой стороны, «давление со стороны сверстников» также может дать положительные результаты. Молодежная преступность и вандализма в одном из районов «Бристоль», город в Англии, упал на 20% в прошлом году. Почему? Потому, что молодые люди перестали делать глупые и анти-социальные вещи. Теперь они пытаются держать подальше от неприятностей. И это все результат нового проекта.Два полицейских Bristol организовали футбольной лиги для подростков в одном из беднейших районов города. Идея заключается в том, чтобы предотвратить подростков от совершения преступлений. Они хотят, чтобы показать подростков, как они могут тратить свое свободное время в лучшую сторону.Полицейские ввела систему, в которой футбольные результаты связаны с поведением молодых людей за пределами футбольных полей. Команды получить очки за победу их матчей, но терять очки, если любой член команды делает все, что он не на футбольном поле или отключить его! Например команды получить десять очков за победу матч, но если любой игрок арестован, команда теряет десять очков. Если член делает акт вандализма, таких как распыление граффити, команда теряет пять очков. Три точки будут потеряны за менее тяжкие преступления.The results in Bristol are great. None of the teenagers playing in the football league has been arrested by the police. Instead of doing antisocial things and causing problems these teenagers are trying to behave properly!The idea is already getting popular in other parts of Britain, and similar programmes will be started in other cities. Social workers are also trying to use “peer pressure" to get other positive results. If some more original ways are found, levels of crime among young people will soon be falling quickly.Some people also think that a similar system should be used for professional footballers. If a professional player gets into a fight on the football ground, his team loses points. In this way footballers will try to behave with more respect to other players.Another example of positive “peer pressure” is that there are fewer teenagers who smoke or take drugs. This is the result of the growing popularity of mobile phones. A mobile has become a new symbol of growing up. Teenagers no longer need to smoke to show that they are adults. Now they want to get a phone as cool as their classmates have.*Peer pressure – the strong influence of a group, especially of children, on the members of that group to behave as everyone else does.