Practice activity 10.1: Using a range of vocabulary

The 1 of a school is not just to teach students basic literacy and 2 skills, or prepare them for the job 3 It is also to prepare them for life, and this is where such 4 skills as cooking come in. Young people need to know how to look after a 5 prepare 6 meals and 7 their money. Some might 8 that this is the 9 of parents, rather than educational 10 , but in many cases parents are unwilling or unable to 11 their children in these matters. As a 12 , young people enter the world without the knowledge previous 13 took for granted. This is 14 in the way so many people these days rely on junk food and credit cards.