HEALTHY WAY OF LIFE.

Lots of young people are not fit at all. Good eating habits, wise drinking habits, regular sleeping habits, and plenty of fresh air and exercise kept up during the week (and right through the year) are all important parts of the way to keep fit. The man or woman who takes regular exercise will stay physically fit, retain youthful vigour and, perhaps most important to many people, keep a youthful shape. Active and healthy life is especially important for students. First of all you must miss no chances of outdoor activities. Second, exercise. You must exercise whenever you can. Third, regular meals are a must if you want to keep fit. Try to avoid going without any food for hours. Fourth, and this is very important, smoking, drugs, spirits is something you must give up for good if you want to keep fit. If you are already an addict, stop today -even if you are half way through a pack of cigarette. It's very dangerous. Try to avoid stress. It can cause illness.

XIV. YOUTH PROBLEMSI believe that everything has its beginning in the family. Family is important for every person because it gives you a sense of stability & tradition, a feeling of having support & understanding. In happy families parents are frank & honest with their children, they treat their children with respect without moralizing or bossing them around & children in their turn learn how to treat other people, how to form relationship among their equals. In a friendly family people are gentle, respectful & loving. This is how things should be in all families. I think that a perfect family should consist of two parents (both successful) & two children (happy, healthy, with rosy cheeks), as family still remains the key social structure. But at the same time there are numerous instances of family tragic clashes & miserable children who suffer a lot when marriages break up & several of whom have to be brought up in children’s homes.

At wedding ceremonies couples are sure that they will have & hold each other, for better & for worse till death parts them. But marriage is a very responsible decision. Common interests, mutual respect & understanding are no less important than love & living under one roof always means compromise. But in our modern time people can’t find time to solve their problems. So misunderstanding often results in divorce.

Also there are such family problems as violence in the family, drugs & alcohol, uprootedness & generation gap.

Generation gap is a gap between the views of the younger generation of teenagers & the views of their parents. It’s common knowledge that at the age of 18 young people take on most of the right & responsibilities of adulthood. But untilthese years come, the teenager lives through a very important character-building period of adolescence. During this time they become more intellectual, better educated & better socially informed. They want to be more independent, they try to keep to their own values which are not always the same as those held by their parents & older people. They think more for themselves & do not blindly accept the ideals of their elders. Traditionally, the young have turned to the older people for guidance. Today, adults – if they are prepared to admit it – could learn a thing or two from their children. I suppose the saying is true that small children create small problems while the big ones bring big problems. The older we grow, the more patient our parents should be with us. Teenagers often protest & very often they seem to be against the whole world when they are 14 or 15 years of age. Every generation is different from the previous one due to the changes that take place in economic, social & political spheres of every society & in every country. So, should our parents make us live according to their values? Of course, their judgments on many things are reasonable, but at the same time I suppose that children have the right to make their own mistakes & toovercome their ownhardships.

I have good relationship with my family. When I am in trouble, I know that my parents & my sister will always help me. I ask them for advice when I don’t know what to do, they will always support me & I trust them in any situations. Sometimes we scold & argue about different trifles. But we try to find a compromise. I think that to live together happily at home can’t be possible without efforts. Shouting, crying, hiding in your room are not the way. Talking & listening openly is the answer.

Respect, support, confidence & love are most important in the family. I’m sure that love comes above all.

World around us

The word environment means simply what is around us. Some people live in a town environment; for others, their environment is the countryside.Nowadays people understand how important it is to solve the environment problems that endanger people’s lives. The most serious environmental problems are: pollution in its many forms (water pollution, air pollution, nuclear pollution), noise from cars, buses, planes, etc., destruction of wildlife and countryside beauty, shortage of natural resources (metals, different kinds of fuel), the growth of population.There is no ocean or sea, which is not used as a dump. Many seas are used for dumping industrial and nuclear waste. This poisons and kills fish and sea animals. "Nuclear-poisoned" fish can be eaten by people.Many rivers and lakes are poisoned too. Fish and reptiles can’t live in them. There is not enough oxygen in the water. In such places all the birds leave their habitats and many plants die. If people drink this water they can die too. It happens so because factories produce a lot of waste and pour it into rivers. So they poison water.Most of the pollution in big cities comes from cars and buses. More and more often people are told not to be in direct sunlight, because ultraviolet radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer. Normally the ozone layer in the atmosphere protects us from such radiation, but if there are holes in the ozone layer ultraviolet radiation can get to the earth. Many scientists think that these holes are the result of air pollution.Both clean air and clean water are necessary for our health. If people want to survive they must solve these problems quickly. Man is beginning to understand that his environment is not just his own town or country, but the whole earth. That’s why people all over the world think and speak so much about ecology.

Date: 2016-03-03; view: 1051