Service Organization

Some American service clubs are involved in community projects. Key clubs for young people and members visit old people and help with collections of charities. Members of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters clubs spend time with children from a disadvantaged families.

School and College Clubs

Schools have lunch-time and after-school clubs for a range of subjects Universities and colleges have subject-based societies to help students on the same course get to know each other. American high-schools have school professional clubs, student organizations associated with various carrers.

2. American Youth:

Work vacations

Service optimism

Camps job

Youths future

Hardworking baby-sit

Unemployment drug abuse

1. American young people are mostly __________-. Many have after-school jobs.

2. Nine out of ten teenagers either have a _________ or would like having one.

3. Child labor laws set restrictions on the types of _________ youth under 16 can do.

4. Many youth work part-time at fast-food restaurants, _________, hold delivery jobs or work in stores.

5. Volunteers help take care of the elderly and handicapped. Many youth are in community ______.

6. Some families send their children to summer ________ for a week or two.

7. Quite often the students have no _______ at all. If they have a summer job they will work.

8. Peer pressure and _______may turn some youth to alcohol or drugs.

9. Most young people don’t have problems with drinking, ______, teen pregnancies or delinquency.

10. New programs to help troubled _______ are created every year.

11. Most American youth look forward to their _______ with hope and ________.

3. Sports and recreations:

Basketball funny cars

Sport competitions

Hunters athletes

Sport tradition

football money

1. In the US of today _________ is the most spectator sport. Baseball is now in second place.

2. Basketball and volleyball are American in origin. Michael Jordan (b.1954) became a _______legend.

3. Americans like__________ by teams or as individuals.

4. American schools follow the English ________ of using sports as teaching ‘social values’.

5. Being intelligent and being good in ________ is an ideal.

6. All college ______ must meet the set academic standards.

7. Rules prevent any college athlete from accepting _____.

8. There are 17 million _____ in the US. Hunting is strictly controlled. There are twice more fishermen.

9. All water _________ and activities are very popular. There are several unusual sports in the US.

10. They are ‘________’ with jet engines, ‘man-powered’ aircraft, hot-air balloon across the ocean etc.