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2.15ВАРИАТИВНЫЕ МОДУЛИ

КУРОКАМ АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА

Тема «Teenage problems» (10 класс)

Цели:

1. Познавательный аспект:

–знакомство с социальными проблемами в подростковой среде в России

истранах изучаемого языка;

–акцентирование внимания учащихся на ценностях здорового образа жизни;

–предоставление возможности открыто взглянуть на проблему алкоголизма, наркомании, ВИЧ/СПИДа.

2. Развивающий аспект:

– развитие способности к обобщению, логичности и доказательности;

– развитие воображения.

3. Воспитательный аспект:

–развитие умения анализировать окружающую действительность с правовой точки зрения;

–развитие самосознания и ценностной ориентации учащихся;

–предупреждение правонарушений, осознание ответственности за совершение действий, запрещённых моралью и правом;

–формирование потребности осознания своего права на собственную позицию, умения говорить «нет»;

–воспитание взаимопонимания, толерантности.

4. Учебный аспект:

Знакомство с лексикой общеполитической направленности, организациями ООН, занимающимися проблемами ВИЧ/СПИДа.

1. Информационная часть

Teenage problems

Today it is fashionable to speak about teenage problems. A few years ago alcohol, fights, killings and other kinds of violence were more problems for adults than for young people.

But now violence, AIDS, drugs and alcohol are more and more associated with youngsters.

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Упражнения:

Просмотровое чтение веб-страниц, содержащих информацию о проблемах молодежи. Определение основных проблем. Групповая форма работы.

Now I invite you to look through some articles about teens’ problems. What problems are discussed on these pages? Let’s name them.

(Чтение учащимися статей о различных проблемах молодежи со своих компьютеров, определение основных проблем молодежи).

Teens’ problems

1.Drugs and street kids

2.Gambling problem

3.Life on drugs

4.Suicide among teens

5.Alcohol Statistics in Europe

6.Sex and Alcohol

2. Информационная часть

Alcohol (hitting the bottle)

Алкоголизм – это проблема не только подростков, но целых поколений. В наши дни распитие спиртных напитков (alcohol drinking) перешло из ряда вредных привычек (bad/vicious habit) в обыкновенный способ расслабиться или повеселиться. И статистика смертности (death rate) от зеленого змия (the demon drink) нас не пугает вовсе. Это одна из самых основных проблем молодежи на английском языке, ведь испытывать пристрастие (addiction) к алкоголю дети начинают в достаточно раннем возрасте. А алкоголь не только губит здоровье (destroy health) человека, но и делает его небезопасным для окружающих. Ведь многочисленные аварии (accidents/vehicular homicides) на дороге происходят по вине пьяных водителей (drunk drivers). Но для подростков алкоголь является запретным плодом (forbidden fruit), который так и хочется вкусить, однако они не понимают, что потом, будучи взрослыми, отказаться распивать спиртное они не смогут (give up drinking).

Alcoholism, which is also known as “alcohol dependence syndrome”, is a disease that is characterized by the following elements:

Craving: A strong need, or compulsion, to drink.

Loss of control: The frequent inability to stop drinking once a person has begun.

Physical dependence: The occurrence of withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety, when alcohol use is stopped after a period of heavy drinking. These symptoms are usually relieved by drinking alcohol or by taking another sedative drug.

Tolerance: The need for increasing amounts of alcohol in order to get “high.”

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Упражнение:

Обсуждение данной проблемы на примере текста.

Read the text “I drank as teenager to hide my anxiety” by Helsingin Sanomat “to the editor” 21 January 2008, translate it into Russian and discuss the reasons of drinking.

I got drunk first time when I was 14. After that I was drunk almost every Friday, sometimes also on Saturday for the next 20 years. Once we drank 9 days in a row (“zapoi”) to celebrate reaching adulthood (18 yrs) in my friend’s empty house during summer holidays. Oh boy, did we have fun!

In public media there has lately been a lot of discussion about drinking of the under-aged. During my own, partly painful growing process I have started to understand the reasons to my drinking, which continued until the conception of my first child. My own childhood was spent in a broken family and in many situations I had to manage on my own. My social life was mainly a survival struggle under the laws of nature, and on the surface I was brave and coping well. But inside when becoming a teenager I was completely in pieces and empty. In my teens alcohol brought relief to this situation. I became brave and jolly, open and loving everyone. So what! Later I understood that the important years I should have used to grow adult were thrown into building a dishonest personality instead that I could have received from someone support in finding my own strengths. I drank in order that other people would like me and that I would dare to approach other people openly.

My parents were reasonably well-to-do middle class people, and at that time they were not YET alcoholics. It only became obvious after I had left home. Therefore I would search reasons to young people’s drinking especially from their parents, who could not caringly support their child in the sometimes difficult process of growing up. Alcohol is used to hide all types of anxieties and to find ways out. A shy person becomes brave, one who hides his/her hate becomes aggressive, one who is disguises his/her sorrow will cry, one who is introverted becomes jolly, and so on.

In the nearby suburban forest of my youth all kinds of destinies could be seen. It could be compared with any TV soap opera. All of us did not survive, so I should probably be thankful that my adventures under the influence of alcohol did not kill me. What is sad, though, that this terrain acts as the training ground for children and teenagers where they grow into adulthood. I recommend that all parents should sometimes visit these “playing grounds”, if they dare.

I can value that I was allowed to experiment things by myself and that I was “trusted”, but I would have hoped that someone had cared for me so much that had organized something else, had been with me, had asked what do I like. I drank in order to get a false feeling that someone cared for me.

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3. Информационная часть

Drug abuse (drug taking/drug consumption)

Еще одной не менее серьезной проблемой молодежи является употребление наркотических средств (drugs). Стать наркоманом (drug addict) легко, однажды попробовав, что это, а вот вернуться к нормальной жизни практически невозможно (impossible), и удается это лишь единицам в качестве исключения. Чтобы продолжать употреблять наркотики, подростки в поиске средств начинают их продавать (sell drugs). И, кажется, что любопытство (curiosity) и желание попробовать что-то новое будет всегда направлять еще не окрепших юношей и девушек в объятия наркотического дурмана. А передозировка (overdose) – это смерть.

Упражнения:

1. Read and translate the text “A ROAD TO... SOMEWHERE? I Don’t Think So!”

The word Drug is defined as “any substance other than food that can affect the way your mind and body work.” There are hundreds of different drugs, each with its particular effect on the body’s nervous system. Narcotics are a series of drugs that affect the mind, causing mental changes. The United States Government will not allow any new drug to be prescribed by a doctor or sold by a pharmacist until the drug has been thoroughly tested and proven to be medically safe. These tests take as long as years before they are approved for use by the public; and even after they have been approved and sold for years, serious side effects may appear and the drug is removed and discarded for any further medical use.

Unstable drugs, referred to on the streets as Crack, PCP, Ice, LSD, Speed and many others, are made up of several chemical substances, which are made illegally in hideaways without proper equipment or skills to carefully measure exact proportions – resulting in a drug that no one knows what the after-effects will be.

FACT: Unstable drugs are responsible for killing thousands of young people experimenting with drugs each year. Those who escape death are sometimes confined to a mental institution.

A drug dealer’s interest is in your money – not your health! Always look for the signs!

Dramatic Changes in Behavior

Signs of Physical Deterioration Identification with Drug Culture Signs of Drugs and Paraphernalia

Dramatic Changes in School Performance Some of Life’s Dangers

We are taught as children to avoid danger. In our world there are small creatures like snakes and spiders that if they bite or sting you, you will die. Over 30,000 people a year die from snake bite alone. Just the sight of such living

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things sends a message of DANGER to the observer and one stays away. There are other dangers out in the world that take more lives than the attacks totaled from those living creatures. The sad part is people who suffer from these killers place them into their own bodies. The end result is the same. So what is the difference?

2.Find English equivalents of the following Russian words and phrases:

…лекарство, медицинский препарат, наркотик …может повлиять на физические и умственные способности …специфический эффект …проверка идёт несколько лет

…для дальнейшего применения в медицине …«грязные наркотики» …уличное название

…состоят из нескольких химических веществ …производятся незаконно …надлежащее оборудование …точное количественное соотношение

…в результате получается лекарство (наркотик) …наркоторговец …обращайте внимание на симптомы …атрибуты, принадлежности

…значительные изменения в отношении к учебе.

3.Answer the questions about the text A ROAD TO... SOMEWHERE?

1.Are the words “drug” and “medication” synonyms?

2.Different drugs have different effects on the body nervous system, don’t

they?

3.How do narcotics differ from other drugs?

4.What is the policy of the United States Government on any new drug to be prescribed by a doctor?

5.What does “medically safe” mean?

6.How long does it take to approve a new drug?

7.In what case a drug can be removed and discarded for any further medical use?

8.What are unstable drugs? Why are they called “unstable”?

9.Why are they responsible for killing thousands of young people experimenting with drugs?

10.What signs are you supposed to look for if you think that someone is on

drugs?

Виды упражнений по работе с текстом могут быть разнообразными, как для закрепления лексики, так и для развития монологической, диалогической речи, грамматических навыков.

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4. Discussing in groups.

Teacher: What is your attitude towards the following opinions about drugs and drug addiction?

1.It causes to loose everything, financially and emotionally.

2.The popularity of drugs can be explained by the failure of culture to allow us to express ourselves freely.

3.Drugs ruin our dreams. They make our lives unhappy.

4.A lot of people take drugs as rebellion.

5.Techno life means nonstop partyingand, of course, partying usually makes people take drugs.

6.Drugs help to escape from the problems and boredom of everyday life.

7.The idea that drugs can help to escape problems is nonsense.

8.The unpleasant side of drugs is degradation. All of them destroy people. They have got that death tag on them.

5. Pupils’ opinions about drugs, drug and alcohol addiction.

Teacher: We have spoken about different opinions. What is your personal attitude towards drugs, drug and alcohol addiction?

The pupils’ opinions: “Young people and drugs”.

“Why do they take drugs”.

“The destroying result of drug usage”.

Teacher: Your opinions that drugs are dangerous sounds just right. It is just what I had in mind.

4. Информационная часть

Uncontrolled sexual behavior and teenage pregnancy

Третьей глобальной проблемой молодежи являются беспорядочные половые связи и вытекающие отсюда последствия, а именно подростковая беременность. Первые очень часто в последнее время приводят не только к рождению незапланированного ребенка, но и к получению заболевания, передающегося половым путем (sexually transmitted disease – STD). И вряд ли кому-то неизвестно, что ВИЧ (HIV – Human immunodeficiency virus) практически всегда переходит в СПИД (AIDS – Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), что является состоянием неизлечимым, а значит, губящим молодых людей в столь раннем возрасте. Подростковые беременности тоже не приносят пользы, ведь как могут стать родителями подростки (teenage mothers and fathers), которые сами еще дети, не имеющие нормального образования (adequate education) и финансовых средств для содержания ребенка (monetary means to support a baby)?

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Упражнения:

1.Знакомствослексикойиорганизациями–коспонсорамиЮНЭЙДС. Для «продвинутых» учеников задание можно трансформировать в “Match the words with the description”.

Key topic vocabulary.

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“UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, is an innovative joint venture of the United Nations family, bringing together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organizations in the AIDS response to help the world prevent new HIV infections, care for people living with HIV, and mitigate the impact of the epidemic.

With its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the UNAIDS Secretariat works on the ground in more than 80 countries worldwide. Coherent action on AIDS by the UN system is coordinated in countries through the UN theme groups, and the joint programmers on AIDS.

Cosponsors include UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank.

UNAIDS helps mount and support an expanded response to AIDS – one that engages the efforts of many sectors and partners from government and civil society.”

2. The ten UNAIDS cosponsoring organizations are:

1. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

(UNHCR)

Управление Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по делам беженцев (УВКБ ООН).

2. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Детский фонд Организации Объединенных Наций (ЮНИСЕФ). 3. Word Food Programme (WFP)

Мировая продовольственная программа (МПП). 4. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Программа развития Организации Объединенных Наций (ПРООН). 5. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Фонд Организации Объединенных Наций в области народонаселения (ЮНФПА).

6. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Управление Организации Объединенных Наций по наркотикам и преступности (ЮНОДК).

7. International Labour Organization (ILO)

Международная организация труда (МОТ).

8. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

(UNESCO)

Организации Объединенных Наций по вопросам образования, науки и культуры (ЮНЕСКО).

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