Study the mind map. What information is missing? Make up your own mind map.
Use the correct form of adjective
1) The information has never __________ than it is today (true/ truer).
2) Nowadays young people are _____ _______ than a few decades ago (more educated/ educated).
3) The old always assume that they know _______(best/better) because they have lived (long/longer)
4) One of the ________ (big/biggest) lessons the _______ (old/older) generation ca learn is to enjoy life .
Improve your study skills.
Developing speaking strategies
You probably want to be able to speak the foreign language you are learning. You want to communicate with others and be understood. Read and apply our tips below and enhance your speaking skills.
SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING YOUR SPEAKING SKILLS
· Speak, speak, speak! Practice is essential. Get in touch with native speakers or other foreign language learners and use the language in communication. It's okay to make mistakes.
· In your every day life, make up a dialogue in your head for the situation you are in: think about how you could order something to eat in English when you are at a restaurant; how you could ask someone for help when you are lost; how you can buy a ticket for the train when you plan to go somewhere, …
· Buy a small dictionary and carry it around with you. When you make up dialogues, use it to look up unknown words.
· When you are alone somewhere, for example in your room or under the shower, come up with sentences in the foreign language and speak them out loud.
· Learn poems that you like and speak them out loud.
· Expose yourself to the foreign language: listen to audio books, read books, watch films and videos, …
· Look for a tandem partner, i.e. a person who speaks the foreign language and wants to learn your native language. Meet him or her regularly and speak the foreign language.
· Use the computer and the internet to improve your speaking skills. For example you can listen to public podcasts in the foreign language, watch videos or chat with native speakers.
· Work on your pronunciation.
(From http://www.learning-english-online.net/skills/speaking/speaking-strategies/)
Speaking
1. Split into groups. Study counter-arguments to the text you have read and discuss the problems using both the arguments of the text and the counter-arguments that follow. Group A supports youth. Group B supports older generation.
· The young do not seek responsibility: they evade it.
· They are not interested in important questions; avoid involvement: e.g. major political issues; they lack noble ideas.
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· They want expensive clothes, cars, etc. without working for them.
· The young should be grateful to the older generation. The older generation provides the young with good education, money to spend.
· The older generation fought World War 2, faced difficult, sometimes tragic problems. The young have had everything easy.
· The young cling to passing fashions: clothes, pop music, and rock music. The modern phenomenon is mass hysteria.
· Appearance of many young people is unpleasant: too long unkempt hair, dirty clothes, and unwashed bodies.
Communicating
Giving advice refers to when we tell other people what we think could help them. The most common way to give advice is by using the modal verb 'should'. There are also other forms including, 'ought to' and 'had better' which are more formal. You can also use the second conditional to give advice.
There are a number of formulas used when giving advice in English. Here are some of the most common:
· You should … .
· I don't think you should … .
· You ought to work less.
· You ought not to … .
· If I were you, I'd … ..
· If I were in your position, I'd … .
· If I were in your shoes, I'd …. .
· You had better … .
· You shouldn't … .
· Whatever you do, don't … .
( From http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/a/f_advice.htm)
Tell the class what you think about the parent-child relationship. What should it be like? What is the way to achieve a perfect mutual understanding?
Writing
Write a short email to your friend about your relations with parents.
About Teenagers
Lead in
Ø What is a teenager?
A teenager is....
· a person who can't remember to walk the dog but never forgets a phone number;
· someone who can hear his or her favorite singer 3 blocks away but not their mother calling from the next room;
· a whiz who can operate the latest computer without a lesson but can't make a bed;
· a connoisseur of 2 kinds of fine music -loud and very loud;
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· an original thinker who is positive that his or her mother was never a teenager;
· a romantic who never falls in love more than once a week;
· a student who spends 12 minutes studying history and 12 hours studying for his or her driving license.
What definition do you like most? Which one describes you? Which suits to all teens best? How would you describe a teenager?
Reading and vocabulary
Check the words in the box
| ●reach the age● join the army ●develop ●work full time ●premise ● helpful ● constructive ●hardworking●caring ● preoccupation |
I. Skim the text to grasp the general idea
What is a teenager?
Officially, of course, a teenager is anyone aged from thirteen to nineteen inclusive but most people would probably think first of all of a younger age group and exclude 18 and 19 year olds. After all, once you reach eighteen you can vote, get married without your parents permission and join the army, so it seems logical that you are considered as an adult rather than a child. At the other end of the scale, children are growing up and developing more quickly and these days 11 and 12 year olds would like to include themselves in the ‘teenager’ group. In actual fact they have their own group title now – ‘Pre-teens’ or sometimes ‘Between-agers’.
Without getting hung up on actual ages, perhaps what we really mean by ‘teenagers’ are people who are in the stage of their life when they are developing from children into adults. This is really a 20th century idea because in the old days children used to grow up much more quickly, with boys working full-time at the age of eleven or twelve and girls either working or helping out with younger children. In many parts of the world this is still the case.
Are teenagers a problem?
Parents and grandparents always seem to start from the premise that teenagers are in a special category when it comes to defining the human race. According to ‘the older generation’ teenagers are lazy, they wear ridiculous clothes and are appallingly rude to their betters and elders; they find it impossible to be polite, helpful, constructive, caring or hard-working. What’s more, they spend all their time listening to awful music (“It isn’t music, it’s a collection of horrendous noises!”) and watching unsuitable films. And all they ever think about is parties, drugs and sex. Well, that’s how the story goes! But is it anywhere near the truth?
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Actually, it seems to me to be quite the opposite of the truth. Teenagers spend a lot of time thinking about their work (studies), their families and friends and their hobbies. Sure, there are certain preoccupations such as clothes, money, how to behave in a certain situation, their bodies.
But isn’t it the same for most people? So what about the myth that all teenagers are rude, selfish, lazy and greedy? As far as I’m concerned, it’s nonsense. The vast majority of young people I meet are polite, friendly, open, interested and hard-working.
Do teenagers have problems?
You might as well ask “Do hens lay eggs?” Teenagers are human, so of course they have problems. And the problems aren’t very different from anyone else’s.
What’s going to happen at work/school tomorrow?
Why does Dad like my sister better than me?
Am I too fat/skinny/tall/short etc.?
Does my boyfriend/girlfriend really like me?
How can I afford to buy….?
Am I stupid?
There isn’t anyone alive in the world who hasn’t posed these questions. We usually do it when we turn out the light and lie down in bed at night and the answers aren’t very satisfactory! It’s true, of course, that sometimes teenagers have special problems. It isa difficult time because it is a period of transformation. It isn’t quite as bad as a chrysalis changing into a butterfly but it may seem like it – or even the other way round! It isn’t easy to grow up and the physical and emotional changes are often confusing and worrying. But it’s my impression that most young people cope rather well.
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