Ход урока
I. Организационный момент
Good morning, dear friends! I am glad to see you. How are you? Who is absent today?
OK, let’s start our lesson.
II. Сообщение темы урока
Today we shall speak about you, it means about teenagers. Our theme is “Teenagers: what’s a problem?”
III. Проверка домашнего задания (дома нужно было выучить прилагательные, характеризующие качества характера)
Students, please remember the qualities of teenagers and write them in the crossword puzzle.
Tell me please what (which) is a teenager today? What do the eldest think about teenagers today?
- According to “the older generation” teenagers are lazy. They wear ridiculous clothes and are appallingly rude to their betters and elders.
- They (teenagers) find to be polite, helpful, constructive, caring or hard-working.
- They spend all their time listening awful music and gawping at unsuitable films.
- All they ever think about is parties, drugs and sex.
I think teenagers spend a lot of time thinking about their work (studies), their families and friends and their hobbies.
IV. Работа с текстом
1. Let’s learn about American teens.
How do you (we) imagine a typical American teenager?
- A rich kind with his own car
- A girl whose parents let her do anything she likes
- A drug addict
Read the article and say are the Americans serious?
2. Answer the questions
1) What is the truth? What are really Americans?
- Most teenagers do not have enough money to have their own car
- Fewer and fewer young Americans are trying drugs
2) Are Americans like Russian teenagers?
| Americans | Russians | |
| Think their teachers make them work too hard | ||
| Love their parents but are sure they don’t understand anything | ||
| Their friendship are the most important things in their lives | ||
| Take jobs while they are in college |
3) Are there difference between attitude of American and Russians teens about the job? Find in text sentences to prove the idea.
American children learn early that you have to work hard to win. Winning is part of the American way of life.
4) How can you characterize American teenagers?
They are … (neat, worldly-minded, responsible, attentive)
5) Say if I am right
- Most teenagers do not have enough money to do what they want.(+)
- Fewer young people are trying drugs.(+)
- Many of them think their teachers make them work to hard.(+)
- Parents of American teenagers pay for their clothes.(-)
- If an American has a job he does badly in school.(-)
- Americans lose a lot. It is not important to win.(-)
- Americans have less time for fun.(+)
V. Обсуждение проблем, волнующих молодежь
Everyone thinks that youth is the best period in one’s life. But nowadays teenagers live a hard life. They have so many problems. The problems which worry young people most of all are:
- finding their niche in life;
- planning their future career;
- hard drugs;
- AIDS;
- conscription.
Listen some information about this. (сообщения студентов)
Alcoholism
Alcoholism refers to the drinking of alcoholic beverages. It is a disease which is very serious, progressive and irreversible. Alcohol or drinking interferes in an individual’s life – such as work, school, family relationships or personal safety and health. The alcoholic continues to consume alcohol despite the destructive consequences.
There are many reasons why people begin to drink: relief of personal problems; desire to be like the other people or wish to feel something new.
Drug abuse
Some people say: “Life is so goddamm short and you might as well have as much fun as you can”. They mean that they should try to take all kids of drugs, sex, alcohol, smoking. Most people begin taking rugs in youth.
But these people don’t think that all those make their life shorter. Drugs cause physical or mental harm to the user. More than that drug addicts are open to HIV infection. HIV attacks selected cells in the immune system and produces defects in function. It leads to a severe suppression of the immune system’s ability and to development of unusual cancers and finally tends to reach certain brain cells.
What should we do to avoid these problems?
- I think people can vary their life someone else. For example more travel, often meet with their friends and help other people who really need it.
- Our government should pay more attention to the problem of AIDS. Their first step could be taking drastic measures aimed at preventing drug trafficking.
- Various educational projects such as “Stop AIDS” should be launched.
- School and parents must help children not to get addicted to drugs.
- Teenagers should understand that there are a lot of interesting and pleasant things in life. There’s no point in using drugs.
Getting job.
When you leave school you understand that the time to choose your future profession has come. It’s not an easy task to make the right choice of a job. I have known for a long time that leaving school is the beginning of my independent life, the beginning of a far more serious examination of my abilities and character.
I have asked myself a lot of time: “What do I want to be ?” A few years ago it was difficult for me to give a definite answer. As the years passed I changed my mind a lot of time about which science or field of industry to specialize in. It was difficult to make up my mind and choose one of the hundreds jobs to which I might be better suited.
What do you want to be?
Little by little I got interested in the subject (in my profession) and began thinking of car repair as my prospective occupation. For me choosing a career is not only a matter of future prestige and wealth. In my opinion a job should be interesting and socially important. That is the reason why I have chosen the profession of a mechanic.
What qualities should you have?
I think a good mechanic must be active, composed and neat.
What qualities should you not have?
I think a good mechanic must never be inert, narrow-minded, unfair.
Студенты высказывают свое мнение по поводу того, каким они видят специалиста своей будущей профессии.
VI. Репродукция
Also, your opinion: Is youth a hard time?
- I think…
- They…
- Besides…
- As for me…
- I am …
- It is interesting for me…
- That’s why…
Примерное высказывание по схеме:
I think teenagers have today much freedom.
They are polite, well-educated and sociable.
Besides they have good chance to choose their own way of life.
As for me I want to become a car mechanic.
I am hard-working and energetic.
It is interesting for me to repair cars.
That’s why I think this profession is socially important.
VII. Завершение урока
Our lesson is over. Today we have spoken about teenagers, their problems and jobs. So, all ages have their advantages and disadvantages. We should try to be happy all time (if it’s possible).
You worked today very hard and got good marks.
Thank you very much. See you later. Bye.