lack — нехватка, недостаток

subculture — субкультура

to rebel — восставать

generation — поколение

solidarity — солидарность

like-minded friends — едино­мышленники

to suit — подходить, годиться

distinct — особый, индивиду­альный

identity — личность

belief — вера

value — ценность

hippy — хиппи

opposed — противоположный

violent — яростный, неистовый

to make a statement — заявлять

startling — поразительный,

потрясающий

make-up — макияж

lipstick — помада

fingernails — ногти

to approve — одобрять

to obey — выполнять

to express — выражать

individuality — индивидуаль­ность

rule — правило

Vocabulary

to set up environmental groups —

организовывать группы по охране

окружающей среды

charity — благотворительность

to hurt — ранить, причинять боль

message — идеи

awful — ужасный

to admit — допускать, согла­шаться

to associate — ассоциировать

to show off — рисоваться, выставлять

себя в выгодном свете

Questions

1. What teenage group and movements do you know? 2. Why did different subcultures appear? 3. What is a subculture? 4. Why do people join different groups and movements? 5. Does belonging to a group help to express one's individuality or not? 6. What is easier: to join a group or to leave it? 7. Do you become different or stay the same when you join a group? 8. Are all groups peaceful? 9. Would you like to belong to a teenage group? Why? 10. What is your ideal subculture? Why?

International Youth Contacts

Nowadays international youth contacts become very important. From Europe to Australia, Asia and Africa teenagers pack their bags and go to the country they have probably only read about or seen on TV. There are special exchange programmes between schools and universities, which give students the possibility to visit different countries, to study there and to learn the culture of the countries.

The main goals of the exchange programmes for secondary school students are the following:

• to break the stereotypes;

• to improve understanding between the countries and the students;

• to represent the country;

• to learn more about the countries;

• to practise foreign languages;

• to study in another country;

• to apply knowledge when students return back in order to build a better future in their own country, and, of course, many other goals.

Not every student can participate in the programme. The student needs to demonstrate good knowledge of a foreign language, ability to adapt to a very different way of life and new people, ability to make friends and communicate, to represent their country and to be flexible and outgoing.

Today many Russian and American students participate in such programmes because they want to know more about other countries. The programmes are very successful. The desire to learn more about the country attracts more and more students to participate in them.

When students arrive in different countries, everything is different for them: the way people eat, sleep, work, and all the various leisure activities. So there are special programmes for adaptation especially with those students living with host families.