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V. Answer the questions:

1. What comment is usually made about the younger generation? 2. What epithets do grown-ups use speaking about children? 3. Does anyone believe that children will make our country a better place to live in? 4. What term has been coined recently? 5. Are teens interested in playing with dolls and toys? 6. What things do they want to have and why? 7. Why is the awkward age the most painful part of childhood? 8. Do teenagers obey their parents? 9. Teenagers with sympathetic and supportive parents never get in bad company, do they? 10. Why do teenagers become addicted to drugs and alcohol? 11. What do teens regard as their right? 12. What society do we live in? 13. Are there any people who live below the poverty line in this country? 14. Who belongs to the smart set or gilded youth? 15. What can push children from poor families to commit a crime? 16. When do children start using computers nowadays? 17. What does preoccupation with computers bring about? 18. Children are easily influenced by violence on TV, aren't they? 19. How do they behave in real life? 20. What do many parents think about upbringing nowadays? 21. Are they right? 22. What should parents do? 23. Is it possible to predict what people today's children grow up? 24. What sort of life do children expect to have? 25. What could grown-ups learn from their children? 26. Why do young people prefer to live in the present? 27. What does World War II mean? 28. Do young people have a right to question the wisdom and sanity of their elders?

Vocabulary

to relate to относиться к ч-л.

peer сверстник

adult взрослый

overwhelming неодолимый

breakdown разрыв

to affect оказывать влияние

drug наркотик

pregnancy беременность

delinquency преступление

complex сложный

citizen гражданин

to drop out of бросать, уходить

to neglect- пренебрегать, пропускать занятия

ample обильный

to rebel восставать

survey исследование, опрос

barbiturate барбитурат

overdose передозировка

grown-up взрослый

curiosity- любопытство

deprived лишенный, бедный

adoption усыновление

unemployed безработный

puberty половая зрелость

anorexia nervosa анорексия

bulimia nervosa булимия

promiscuity беспорядочность

juvenile юношеский

VI. Find synonyms for the words in the frame:

Complex to neglect adult to rebel

Juvenile survey to drop out

Curiosity ample affect

To disobey, abundant, interest, young, difficult, to disdain, to leave, enquiry, grown-up, influence.

  1. Match the words and their definitions:

To drop out, barbiturate, overdose, deprived, unemployed, anorexia, bulimia, peer, adult, to affect, pregnancy.

1. A powerful drug that makes you feel calm and relaxed or puts you to sleep.

2. Too much of a drug taken at one time.

3. To leave school, college without finishing your studies.

4. Without a job although able to work.

5. An emotional disorder leading to dangerous weight loss.

6. Without enough food, education and all the things that are necessary for people to live a happy and comfortable life.

7. An emotional disorder in which a person repeatedly eats too much and then forces himself/herself to vomit.

8. A person who is the same age as you.

9. To produce a change in smb. /smth.

10. A fully grown person who is legally responsible for their actions.

11. The state of being pregnant.