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Jobless A blog post: Being unemployed Read the blog post by an unemployed teenager in the USA. How does he feel? by Samuel 2 May, 6:13 p.m. My life at the moment is an emotional roller coaster. One day I’m full of hope, and the next I’m way down. I used to be fairly optimistic, but job prospects for summer jobs and internships aren’t looking good at the moment, despite news of economic growth and mixed reports of job growth. I’m searching for work online and in the newspapers, but it is really driving me crazy. What should I do? Writing: A blog comment As the end of the school year is coming closer, you have already written 14 e-mails of application for a summer job but they were all turned down. You have come across the blog post above and decide to write a comment. In your blog comment you should: • describe your current situation • explain what kind of job you are looking for • speculate about what’s going to happen if you don’t get a job Write around 200 words . Youth unemployment rates Look at the statistics. Then match the text with the missing words below. Write the numbers into the circles. unemployed Spain Austria lowest rates unemployment rate stable In March 2013, 5.7 million young people were … 1 in the EU-27, of whom 3.6 million were in the euro area. e youth … 2 was 23.5% in the EU-27 and 24% in the euro area, relatively … 3 over the month, but up by 0.9 percentage points and 1.5 percentage points compared to March 2012. In March 2013, the … 4 were observed in Germany and … 5 (both 7.6%), e Netherlands (10.5%), and the highest in Greece (59.1% in January 2013), … 6 (55.9%), Italy (38.4%) and Portugal (38.3%). United Kingdom Belgium EU27 Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Germany Estonia Ireland Greece Spain France Italy Cyprus Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Hungary Malta Netherlands Austria Poland Portugal Romania Slovenia Slovakia Finland Sweden Youth unemployment (under 25’s in %) 7 March 2013 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 1 2 3 97 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv