3. Listening
Listen to the surveys, summarize the article and compare with the situ- ation in our country.
TEENAGERS AND DRUGS
Two separate surveys suggest that Britain’s teenagers are amongst the heaviest drug-users and drinkers in Europe. The British government has introduced a number of measures to tackle the use and supply of drugs, particularly among young people.
The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs inter- viewed 15 and 16-year olds in 35 countries. 26 % of boys and 29 % of girls in the UK had indulged in binge drinking at least three times in the previ- ous month. For the purpose of the study, binge drinking was classed as hav- ing more than five alcoholic drinks in a row. In the same survey, 42 % of boys and 35 % of girls admitted they had tried illegal drugs at least once.
According to another survey, by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, two in five 15-year-olds in the UK have tried cannabis. This number is higher than anywhere else in Europe. The UK has also the joint highest number of young cocaine users, alongside Spain.
The British government has recently unveiled new plans to fight the problem of drug abuse in the United Kingdom, also among teenagers. Ac- cording to the new proposals, young offenders will have to attend drug treatment as part of community service. British police will be able to give people blood tests for drugs when they arrest them, not just when they charge them with an offence. Dealers working near a school or using chil- dren to help sell drugs will face tougher penalties.
But schools also try to fight the problem of drug use themselves. At the beginning of 2005 a British state school has introduced for the first time random drug testing. Students from a school in Kent will have mouth swabs taken to detect drug use. Each week 20 names will be selected by computer and the swabs sent off to a drug testing laboratory. Results will be available three days later. The school’s head teacher says that no child will be tested against his or her wishes. Children who test positive will not be expelled from the school, but those who sell drugs will.
4. speaking
Do ex. 3, p. 217.
5. summary
There are many problems society faces nowadays and any problem can be considered from two points of view: if it is right or wrong. But it is danger- ous to discuss social attitudes in such a way. Scan the situations given below and discuss in your groups what you feel to be right or wrong in them.
y TV greatly affects the minds of the young people, it doesn’t aim at bringing up patriots of their motherland. Is it right or wrong?
y A young man, a person of age, doesn’t agree to serve in the army, to defend his motherland, in a word. Is it right or wrong taking into consideration that the constitution proclaims it a sacred duty of any obedient citizen?
y People with higher education are paid less than those who don’t have good education at all. Is it wrong?
y A gang of young criminals places a bomb in a large store. In their phone call to the police they say that they will explore the bomb unless they are paid 50 million. Is it right to use violence to get what you want?
6. Homework
Write a short paragraph upon any problem above.
Lesson 77
Role oF YoUth In SoCIetY
Цілі: вдосконалювати лексичні навички й навички читання; вдосконалюва- ти навички аудіювання й говоріння; розвивати логічне мислення; виховувати толерантне ставлення до інших.
Procedure
Клас
Дата
1. Warm-up
What are responsibilities of youth in society?
Share ideas as for this problem with your partner, make up statements from the table below and add some of your own.
to build the nation
to make the society good and noble
the community and culture of society
with a number of crime careless
drunken youth
Youth
is responsible can
should (be)
shouldn’t (be)
Improve reduce
indifferent youth reckless youth
to identify the value of time punctual for doing every work stick to high ideals
to maintain discipline
to do every work with tolerance think before action
create original thinking
to defend freedom and democracy
2. Grammar practice
Do ex. 1, p. 219.
3. Reading and speaking
Do ex. 4, p. 217.
4. Reading and writing
Read the Net-page and leave your comments. Express your opinion as
for this problem.
ROLE OF YOUTH IN SOCIETY
Youth are back bone to the nation. They can change the future of the so-
ciety with their well-being and courageous behavior. They are here to show us that which we have not been willing to look at within ourselves. Unfor-
tunately today we find the youth those who are more interested in other
places witch are not useful to them as well as nation. They choose to spend
their days doing drugs and playing video games. They spend their nights
partying and living it up, so to speak. More and more young men of this age group are sitting at home in front of their televisions playing games all day
instead of bettering themselves or going to work. They have no vision and
if they do have dreams they do not have the drive to make any attempt at achieving them.
We must get control of this. We must motivate our youth. We must teach responsibility and goal setting. I fear if we do not we will soon be sup-
porting an entire generation of homeless and needlessly on welfare fami-
lies. Things have to change, with our schools, with the older generation be- ing good role models, with the older generation being mentors, and with the youth who are right now doing nothing
Those of you are in age of teen. You have a choice. You can allow your- selves to stay your course and do nothing or you can rise above what the cynics around you expect and go get educated or get jobs. Show the older generation they are wrong about you. Let them know you have intelligence and skills. Show yourself what you are made of. You might be surprised at how proud of yourself you become with even the smallest of accomplish- ments. I can tell you that nothing can happen if you do not try bad or good. You will not become rich overnight either way but at least if you make an effort, then you have begun your journey to your dreams. Key role of youth in society is to renew, refresh and maintain a civilization.
5. Grammar practice
Do ex. 2, p. 220.
6. Listening and reading
Listen and fill in the gaps.
Come on everybody. Get up and do something. December the 5th is Inter- national Volunteer Day. This (1) … important day was started by the United Nations in 1985. Its (2) … is twofold: first, to thank volunteers around the world for giving their time to help others; and second, to (3) … other people to do voluntary work. Without volunteers, many people around the world would be (4) … off. In fact, the whole world would be a (5) … place. Volun- teers help other people and help animals, the countryside, the environment and many (6) … things that are so important to us. The UN urges govern- ments around the world to (7) … measures to (8) … awareness of the impor- tant contribution of volunteering.
There are thousands of volunteer organizations around the world. Some of them are very (9) …. Perhaps everyone has heard of VSO (Volun- tary Services Overseas), the Peace Corps, and Muslim Aid. A search on the Internet will (10) … much give you a volunteer (11) … on anything or any- one you want to help. You don’t need to (12) … a worldwide group to be a volunteer. Most voluntary work that takes place around the globe is by individuals helping their neighbours. We have probably all (13) … out of our way to help someone (14) … fortunate. The great thing about voluntary work is that it makes you (15) … like a better person. So please, on this In- ternational Volunteer Day, think about how you can help, and (16) … your services.
Key: 1 highly, 2 aim, 3 encourage, 4 worse, 5 darker, 6 more, 7 take,
8 heighten, 9 famous, 10 pretty, 11 group, 12 join, 13 gone, 14 less, 15 feel,
16 offer.
7. speaking
1) What is volunteer work?
2) What is your definition of volunteer work?
3) What is the dictionary definition of volunteer?
4) Why do people volunteer?
5) Would you like to work as a volunteer?
6) Have you ever done any volunteer work?
7) Is volunteering worth the time it takes?
8) What are volunteer activities that people do?
8. summary
Name as many activities as you can which depend on active participa- tion of youth in life of any country.
9. Homework
Ex. 4, p. 221.
