Тематический Кейс - Modern Youth

Language case № 7 “Modern Youth” Topic 1. Problems of Modern Youth Topic 2. The Most Popular Subcultures Topic 3. Youth Culture. Fashion Topic 4. Love and Friendship Topic 1. Problems of Modern Youth • What is Hot with the Young Generation? 1. aspirations-стремления 2. behaviour- поведение 3. conform to-согласовывать,  4. cоответствовать 5. cruelty-жестокость 6. all-night dance parties-«танцы до упада» (всю ночь) 7. express yourself in….-выражать себя в….. 8. hang out-слоняться, тусоваться 9. fear-страх 10. fight-драка 11. gang-банда 12. join some groups –вступить в какую-то группу 13. lifestyle-стиль жизни 14. rebel-бунтарь, мятежник,  15. восставать, бунто...
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Тематический Кейс - Modern YouthExercises

Exercise 1. Answer the questions and make up a story about problems of young people

1. At what age can a young person take the responsibilities of adulthood?

2. Why do most young people experience conflicts during the period of adolescence?

3. What kinds of difficulties do some young people have in their relationship with their parents or at school?

4. Being young we have a lot of plans and enjoy our life, don't we?

5. Can young people always discuss their physical, social or emotional problems with their parents or teachers?

6. Whose values are the teenagers most influenced by?

7. What role does the mass-media play in the development of the teenagers' values?

8. What can be the ideals of young people?

9. From whom do they usually choose their idols?

10. What fan-clubs do you know in this country or abroad?

11. Can you explain what youth subculture is?

12. What do young people do in their search for self-identification?

13. Why do they speak their own slang?

14. What colours do they prefer?

15. What kind of clothes do they wear?

16. What problems do they face today?

17. What can you say about unemployment, a shortage of money and getting a good education?

18. Why may these problems lead young people to use alcohol, drugs or even to crime?

19. Are young people interested in politics?

20. Our society is becoming more and more differentiated, isn't it?

21. What political youth organizations can you name?

22. Why does the social and cultural life of young people at colleges and universities differ?

23. Do you agree that troublesome teenagers need friendly people around?

24. What international voluntary organization do young people take an active part in?

25. What can you say about the Red Cross, Greenpeace and the Peace Corps?

Exercise 2. ( Reading + English in Use) Read the text and do the exercises.

A Time to Leave

It was one of those wet and windy days that you can so often get in the middle of an English summer. Clouds hung over the rough sea and the empty beach and over the shops and hotels of the small seaside town.

From the large window of the Surfer's Shop Julie looked dreamily across the bay and the yellow sand of the surfer's beach. It seemed unbelievable, but there were actually surfers in the water.

Sometimes during her lunch hour, if she wanted to be alone, Julie walked down to the harbour and watched the boats. In Julie's town, people still lived from the sea. The rain had now stopped and the blue sky appeared between the clouds . The harbour was popular with the tourists. They liked to look at the boats and feed the birds.

A couple of boys from her class had become fishermen. They were now working with their fathers or training with a local captain. It was rough, uncomfortable life, with hard work and low wages. It wasn't something she could do. Julie sat on an empty box. She wondered what she could do. School had finished so suddenly. She had known it would happen one day, but she had never prepared for her new life properly. The summer holidays had started as usual, but she and her friends had not gone back when they were over. Now she was working in the Surfer's Shop. It was like one of the part-time jobs she had done on a Saturday, but now it lasted all week. She could hardly say she was happy. But her friends didn't seem to be happy either.

During a quiet period that afternoon she read in a newspaper the following advert.

Independent young girl required to work as

au pair

for a family in San Diego, California.

Mrs J.Edwards

2001 Pasadena Ave,

San Diego CA 92109

It seemed to jump out at her; she read it again and again. She looked away and thought: should she apply? What would her parents say? She wrote down the address and decided to talk to them that evening.

«Where?» asked her mother.

«San Diego, California,» said Julie.

«You're too young», her father said.

«I'm old enough to work here. Why can't I work in California?»

«Do you know where that is?» her father said.

«You talk as if it's round the corner. And you don't even know who these people are or what they're like.»

«I can write and find out,» she said.

«But why ?» asked her mother. «You've got a perfectly good home here, your own room, a good job.»

«There's nothing for me here, Mum. Can't you understand that? What kind of future have I got? A job, a family, a car, a house? I don't want to spend the rest of my life paying for a mortgage.

Angrily, Julie left the table and ran up to her room. Her room was nice and comfortable. Her parents had decorated it again only recently. She had her own stereo, her own TV. Nothing was missing, but somehow she didn't really want it.

Downstairs she could hear the same arguments she had heard once before when Anne had decided to go and live in London : homeless young people, the dangers of big cities, crime, bad friends. But Anne had always said it was important to leave her home town and experience other people and places while she was still young.

Some time later her mother knocked on the door and came in. «Are you still angry?» she asked. Julie nodded.

Her mother sat on the bed next to her. «Don't be. We've been through this once already with your sister and we don't want to make the same mistakes again. You have to grow up and do what you want to do, although we don't necessarily agree. We just hope that you are doing the right thing. And your Dad is frightening of losing you. He would do anything to keep you here. We had a long talk and we both feel that you should write to the family».

Julie hugged her mother. «Thanks, Mum», she said.

Downstairs the front door opened and her father left the house to take the dog for its evening walk. From her window Julie watched him as he walked slowly towards the garden gate. He stopped and looked up quickly, but made no sign that he had seen her. She hoped that this time it would be easier to say goodbye.

Exercise1. Comprehension. Fill in the table by adding information from the text.

  1. The action takes place in.........

  2. Julie lives with........

  3. Her job is.........

  4. Julie isn't very satisfied with her present job. (True / False).........

  5. What are her parents arguments against her new job?...........

Exercise 2. Here are some things that Julie told the career officer. Write the officer's questions.

  1. I'm eighteen years old.

  1. I've been living in England for 18 years.

  2. I left school last year.

  3. Now I'm looking for a job here, in my town. I have a part-time job in a Surfer's Shop.

  4. I don't enjoy my present job.

............ 10 marks

Exercise 3 . After her interview Julie told her friends what she had been asked about. Rewrite the officer's questions in the reported speech. ( 11-15)

......... 10 marks ( 2 points for each item)

Exercise 4. Guided Writing. Write down what the text is about in no more than 5 sentences.

Here is some help.

  1. Julie lives........and works.......

  1. She doesn't like.......

  2. One day she reads....... and asks herself.......

  3. At first her parents........ because..........

  4. But later..........

........... 10 marks ( 2 points for each item)

Exercise 5. Creative Writing. How would your parents have reacted if you had been Julie?

Express your ideas in 100-120 words.

........... 10 marks

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