- •Рецензия
- •Why do children turn violent?
- •Classroom Bullies Escape Blame. Headmaster Stuart.
- •Set work
- •I. Listen to the text about bad boys and do the exercises below.
- •III. Explain what is meant by:
- •V. Say whether you agree or disagree with the statements below.
- •VI. Points for discussion:
- •The monster children
- •Set work
- •VI. Say how you understand.
- •VI. Points for discussion.
- •Set work
- •Set work
- •VIII. Points for discussion.
- •IX. Read through the article below and say if you share the idea that
- •«Я не трус, но я боюсь!»
- •Set work
- •IV. Points for discussion.
- •Little angels, little devils
- •Emma Wilkins
- •Свидетели убийства: дети
- •II. Find in the article the Russian for:
- •III. Sum up the main points of the article making use of the lexical units under study.
- •IV. Points for discussion.
- •Video games
- •Set work
- •I. Define the words below and say how they were used in the article.
- •II. Find in the article the English for:
- •III. Explain what is:
- •IV. Say whether you agree or disagree with the statements below. Enlarge
- •Что ты смотришь, милый мальчик? /Игровые приставки, а не родители теперь будут ограничивать .../
- •Set work
- •I can’t stop playing any time I want
- •Videogames have an addictive quality. Does this mean we’re hooked
- •Set work
- •No child should have to suffer like us Christopher’s story
- •Headmaster Stuart
- •Set work
- •IV. Do library research to come out with talks on the British educational
- •V. Do you think bullying is a school problem or a social issue?
- •I. Look through the article for the corresponding Russianequivalents:
- •II. Think of the best English equivalent of:
- •III. Sum up the key points of the article and account for its headline.
- •IV. Points for discussion.
- •Classroom bullies escape blame
- •Set work
- •Set work
- •I. Scan the article for the Russian equivalents of:
- •II. Say what is the English for:
- •III. What is meant by:
- •VI. State the idea behind the given lines and enlarge on it.
- •В Великобритании родители предъявляют иски школам в случае травли и издевательств над детьми
- •IV. Render the article into English and say whether it’s right to sue schools for the failure to cope with school bullies. Young, tough and in trouble
- •Set work
- •II. Find in the article the English for:
- •III. Say how you understand the phrases below.
- •IV. What do you know about?
- •Set work
- •IV. Speak about possible ways to improve the situation.
- •V. Comment on the headline of the article.
- •Violence in schools. Now, a crackdown
- •Set work
- •Не убивай – тебе уже 14!
- •Елена Семенова
- •Set work
- •British schools
- •Set work
- •III. Find in the article the English for:
- •IV. Translate the sentences using the words under study.
- •V. Explain what is meant by the following lines.
- •VI. Points for discussion.
- •Дети пьют, схдят с ума и предаются странным забавам
- •II. Sum up the article and formulate its message.
- •III. Points for discussion.
- •«Трехлетний гангстер зарабатывает за день больше, чем его мать за месяц»
- •Set work
- •IV. Do you think bullying is a school problem or a social issue?
- •Дети подземелья, или генералы подземных каньонов
- •I. Look through the article for the corresponding Russian equivalents of the words below.
- •III. Sum up the key points of the article making use of the expressions from the
- •IV. Points for discussion.
- •Why children turn violent
- •Set work
- •Садисты в коротких штанишках
- •Set work
- •What makes children violent?
- •Why Do Children Turn Violent? Учебное пособие
- •Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования
Set work
I. Find in the article the Russian for:
ravine, the underworld’s prime reserves, to increase by one tenth, organized gang formation, to reverse the situation, for decades, law-offenders, year in year out, to be on the decrease, repeat-offenders, sth. is a customary occurrence, proceeds of the drug-trade, to be afflicted by alcohol-abuse, to stem from free marketing economy relations, to dig deeper, property-seizure crimes, to experience an increase in …, to show resistance, perilous.
II. Give the best English equivalents for:
а) У кого-то мурашки побежали по коже, констатировать, «зоны» и спецшколы, несовершеннолетние, малолетки, на воле, разбой, подобное положение вещей, пулемет.
б) ПТУ, ЧП, МИД
III. Render the article into English and answer the question: Is it society
itself that makes them dangerous?
IV. State the difference between:
Ravine - gully.
V. Account for the journalist’s choice of the headline.
THE SAVAGERY OF CHILDREN
Britain: A judge convicts two boys, both 11, of murdering a 2-year-old.
Their motive is a mystery.
One boy still sucks his thumb and enjoys Bugs Bunny videos. The other carries a teddy bear named Coach. Last week their trial for the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger reached its conclusion in a courtroom in northwest England. Thompson and the bear-toting Jon Venables, guilty of one of the most shocking crimes in British history. The boys, both 10 at the time, has abducted Bulger from a shopping center in a bleak neighbourhood on the outskirts of Liverpool last February. First they tried to push him into a nearby canal. Then they dragged him two and a half miles to a railway embankment near Thomson’s home. They pelted the child with stones and bricks. They kicked him in the head. They bludgeoned him with a 22-pound iron bar. Trying to disguise their crime as an accident, they finally laid his dead body on the rail where it was sliced in two by a passing train.
‘Little bastards’: The defendants – known during the trial only as “Boy A” and “Boy B” – declined to take the stand. Neither offered any public explanation of the crime. The damning evidence came from hours of taped police interviews, in which each child tried to incriminate the other. The jury bought no excuses. Neither this Justice Michael Morland, describing the deed as “unparalleled evil and barbarity”. He sentenced both Thompson and Venables to serve terms of indefinite detention “at Her Majesty’s pleasure”. That vague sentence is the only one British law allows for such young defendants. But both are likely to remain locked up into their adulthoods. As the sentence was read, James Bulger’s uncle cried out from the public gallery: “ How do you feel now, you little bastards?”
Outside the courtroom, most of Britain felt awful. In the days after the verdict, politicians, commentators and churchmen engaged in an inconclusive, round of public theorizing about what made the boys do it. One intriguing theory revolved around a violent American movie called “Child’s Play 3” – rented by Venables’s father less than a month before the crime. In the film, an evil, child-size doll named Chucky comes to life and wreaks havoc. The good guys ultimately mutilate Chucky and smash his head in after a chase on a fairground ghost train. Judge Morland said last week that “violent video films may in part be explanation” for the murder. But the police say there’s no evidence either child ever watched “Child’s” Play 3. “That didn’t keep Rupert Murdoch’s from launching a nationwide campaign to burn every copy in Britain. And it didn’t stop the rival Daily Mirror from gleefully noting that Murdoch’s satellite channel. Sky TV had recently shown the film twice. Others clung to more mundane notions – notably the one endorsed by police, that the defendants were simply “freaks of nature”. Either way, Thompson and Venables – both truants from broken homes in a rough neighbourhood – became the youngest Britons convicted of murder since 1748. the minimum age of criminal responsibility in England is 10, four to five years younger than in most European countries. But public sympathy was minimal: the crime was blood-curdling, the boys were destined for secure but comfortable juvenile units, and Thompson showed a disturbing lack of remorse. (Friends of Thompson say he is suffering from posttraumatic stress. Venables’s lawyer reported his client had broken down in his cell after the verdict and cried: “Will you please tell them I’m sorry!”) At the shopping center where the child was seized, local residents were unsure there was anything at all to be learned from the trial. “It’s a sign of the times”, said disgusted merchant Ted Webster, not far from the spot where Santa Claus was making his seasonal appearance. “Those kids were just looking for bloody murder”. Even they, perhaps, don’t really know why.
Daniel Pedersen with William Underhill in Liverpool
/Newsweek, December 6, 1993/