The
Life of youth
I. INTRODUCTION
T: What do you
think about the phrase written on the
blackboard?
"Man is a social
creature, that is he is used to living in
families, groups,
communities, societies, organised on the
basis of some
relationship."
Ps:
I think that living of people in the society depends
on their behaviour,
discipline, culture, following some
rules etc.
T: So what do
you think we are going to speak about
today?
Ps: We are going
to speak about us i.e. young people.
T: Yes, the
theme of our lesson is: "The Life of Youth:
A Problem or a Question
to Decide".
T: We have three
projects to be presented and discussed
in our today's lesson. As
our life starts in the family, we
will start our work with
the project "Parents and children".
And our first group takes
the floor.
My
family
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Myself
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My school
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II. PRACTICE
Project 1.
The group of four students suggests their ideas about families.
PARENTS AND CHILDREN
P1:
As it has been said we are going to speak about the life of Ukrainian youth.
Family relations
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Parents and children
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Ideal family
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lf kids do wrong,
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parents be punished?
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kids be punished?
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Family relations:
All children do their
first steps in their families. That’s
why their life is
influenced by their parents very much. And
first problems of young
people appear in their families as
well. So, we are going to
speak about the relations between
children and their
parents.
When a child is born, for
his parents, especially for his
mother, it means
sleepless nights, restless days, children’s
illnesses, sacrifying her
friends, interests and even career.
When children grow up,
they don’t want their parents
interfere in their
beliefs, hobbies and leisure. They don’t
want to obey the rules
they were taught by their parents.
They want to go on their
own way and find it difficult to
be responsible. They
expess their self-indentity in clothes,
hair style and slang.
They smoke, drink alcohol ‘and take
drugs believing that it
is the road to independence. They
conflict with their
parents and teachers, considering that
only equals in age can
understand them. But nevertheless
they dream about an ideal
family, about a good mother,
about a good father.
What is “a good mother”,
“a good father” for you?
Ps:
A good mother is patient and caring; she under-
stands the needs of her
child, helps her child to meet his/her
emotional challenges.
Ps:
A good father is a man who spends all his time
with his children.
An ideal family:
P2:
Read the quotations of some famous people:
“For some people family
is a shelter from vital prob-
lems, for others it is
the theatre of the war Operations.”
(Shewelev)
“Family will always be
the base of society.” (Balzac)
“An ideal family is an
oasis of love and kindness in the
desert life evil.”
(Shewelev)
“Family is the roof of
life.” (Shewelev)
“Family is not a cell of
the state. Family is the state.”
(Dovlatov)
P3:
Before this lesson we asked our classmates two
questions: “What do you
think about, when you hear the
word ‘family’? What is an
ideal family for you?”
We got 15 answers and
everybody answered these ques-
tions in his or her way.
P4:
Making our survey we distinguished 2 main prob-
lems in creating an ideal
family. On the one hand, now
parents are not so strict
as they used to be and most young
peOple have considerable
amount of freedom.
Pl: On
the other hand, all parents want to protect
their children from
difficulties. A parents’ desire to shield
the child from life’s
dangers and disappointments prob-
ably indicates very
understandable concem. If your child
is overprotected, s/he
may grow up feeling loved but may
also be too passive. This
is not a good thing. Excessively
dependent children are at
the mercy of others whether
they may be parents,
teachers, or other children - their
self-esteem can be
shattered easily.
Punishment:
P2:
But there are thousands of homeless children. They
escape from their homes
trying to cope with their difficul-
ties, they think that it
is a proper way to solve all their
problems and they often
do the wrong things. They don’t
understand that
responsibility begins at home. So, if kids
do wrong should parents
or kids be punished? We’d like
to show you a typical
situation which can happen in any
family. And we’d like to
listen to your opinions.
Role-play:
One day Ann came home and
started shouting at her
mother:
A:
Mom! Give me 500$ immediately!
M:
Ann, calm down! What has happened?
A:
It doesn’t matter! I need money! I need 500$!
M:
But I can’t give you such sum!
A:
Ifl don’t give it back tomorrow, you won’t see me
anymore! I will run away!
It turned out that Ann was
gambling and lost 500$ playing
cards with her fiiends.
Who is right in this
situation? Who should be punished?
Ann is family is rich and
she always gets what she wants.
T:
I am sure this problem can be solved. I’d like to
divide you into two
groups. The first one will represent
Ann’s parents and the
second one will represent Ann. (Each
group gives their
answers.)
Project 2
T:
Our second group would like to take the floor. So
you are welcome!
(The group of five
students suggests their ideas about schooling.)
Hard work
Respect self-education
Satisfaction
self-confidence
Job subjects
joy
students behavior
relations with
teachers building
relations
with code
of conduct
classmates
cheating in
exams uniform the freedom of speech
Project 3 “I and my
leisure time”
P1:
Our project is connected with me, with what I
do at my leisure time -
when I am not at school and
with my parents.
(Three students tell what
they do when they have free
time: go to the theatre,
cinema, museums, discos and
explain why they like
doing it.)
Pl:
But some students don’t devote their leisure
time to music, literature
or art. They have their ways
of getting as much
entertainment as they can. Unfor-
tunately, it can lead to
having problems with alcohol,
smoking, drugs. We would
like you to listen to other
three stories and try to
help to decide the problems of
these students.
(Three other students
tell the class what led them to
problems with alcohol,
smoking, drugs.)
T:
We want to help these people that’s why we have
invited a doctor from a
rehabilitation centre “Hope”.
Doctor: Good morning! My
name is Lilia, I am a
doctor from a
rehabilitation centre “Hope”. I came
here to listen to you and
to give you some advice. As
we don’t have much time,
we’ll speak only about smok-
ing, about other things
we will speak with you at our
Centre. I guess you
should know the functions of the
parts of our body and the
effects of smoking on them.Look at this chart.
THE EFFECT OF SMOKING
Body
part
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Function
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Effects
of smoking
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Brain
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Eyes
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Mouth
and throat
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Heart
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Lungs
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Stomach
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Pancreas
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Sample answers:
Body
part
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Function
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Effects
of smoking
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Brain
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The
brain makes thinking
Possible.
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Nicotine
affects a smoker’s brain. Tobacco smoke is a major cause of stroke.
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Eyes
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Eyes
enable people to see.
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Smokers
have a two to three times greater chance of developing cataracts, a leading
cause of blindness.
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Mouth
and throat
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The
mouth and throat are the body’s entry points for getting in food and air.
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Smokers
are more likely to get periodontitis.
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Lungs
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Lungs
move air in and out of the body.
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Smokers
have more respiratory illnesses, including pheumonia, bronchitis, and colds
than nonsmokers.
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Heart
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Heart
pumps blood throughout the body.
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Smoking
causes atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Most cases of stroke,
coronary heart disease, and artery disease are caused by atherosclerosis.
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Stomach
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Inside
the stomach, acids and other gastric juices liquefy food before it goes into
the small intestine.
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Smokers
are more likely to get peptic ulcers than nonsmokers. Smoking causes stomach
cancer.
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Pancreas
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The
pancreas is gland that regulates digestion by releasing enzymes into the
small intestine.
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Smoking
causes pancreatic cancer
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Doctor:
So, you have got some useful information
about the harm made to
your body by smoking. If you
don’t want to degrade, if
you want to live a meaning-
ful life, we advise you
to come to our centre where you
can get any help you need
- this is the main step. The
next step is the
following: you should care for your own
health and not to be
lazy. You should do your morning
exercises with the
windows wide open because they warm,
invigorate and purify
your body; you should have a good
rest; you should be
moderate in eating - eat the right
food and a lot of
vitamins because healthful habits make A
healthy bodies; you
should have positive thinking.
Ill. SUMMING-UP
T:
As we see the teenagers try to find their place in
the world. Psychologists
say that the majority of young
people experience conflicts
during this period of their
lives. They are changing
rapidly both physically and
emotionally and they are
searching for self-identity. As
their values are
different from the ones of their parents,
they have difficulties in
building their relationships with
them or they have
problems at school which may lead
to taking alcohol or
drugs, to skipping school or even to
running away from home.
In the most extreme cases it
may lead to crime. Why is
it so?
Ps:
When children are brought up in the family, they
are taught certain rules
and laws, which they have to
know to obey. In this way
children come to understand
that there is no absolute
freedom because their freedom
depends on the laws and
rules of the society in which they
live. Thus, they are
aware they will be punished if they
do wrong things:
misbehave, tell a lie, skip school, steal
etc. The earlier children
accept the rules of behaviour,
the easier and safer
their life is.
T:
The advice is encoded on the blackboard.
“To than better mistakes
them it’s avoid correct
to.”
Answer: “It’s better to
avoid mistakes than to correct
them.”______-____
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