LISTENING AND SPEAKING

HOW TO LIVE A HUNDRED YEARS AND MORE

Text 1. Memories of Childhood

(from Headway)

Reading and Writing

MODERN YOUTH AND LEISURE

1)Carry out an analysis of what your group-mates usually do in their free time and what leisure interests are competing with reading for their attention. Here is a list of different leisure activities that young people nowadays usually engage in throughout the day:

· watching (media: TV/ DVDs, contents: films, sports, news, etc.; frequency: once, twice, more than twice);

· listening media: radio, CDs, records, tapes; contents: music, news, stories, etc);

· reading (media: newspapers and magazines, books, e-books and podreading; contents: fiction, science fiction, IT and Sports, etc);

· using the computer(aim: sending emails; accessing the Internet to access sites on music, cinema listings, academic research, sports; to play games on line, to download games/screensavers; to make purchases on the Internet, specifically Music/Videos, Clothing, Tickets for events, etc);

· going to the cinema (the type of movies they prefer: comedies/ action/ adventure/ horror/ thrillers/ science fiction and fantasy);

· going out with friends (to nightclubs, restaurants, bars, parks);

· practicing sports(football, cycling, swimming, basketball, bowling, etc.);

· shopping.

2)Compare the results, write a written report and deliver it in class.

Additional Reading

A YOUTH SUBCULTURE

Read the text and …….

A youth subculture is a youth-based subculture with distinct styles, behaviors, and interests. Youth subcultures offer participants an identity outside of such social institutions as family, work, home, and school. Youth subcultures are meaning systems, modes of expression or lifestyles developed by groups in subordinate structural positions in response to dominant systems.

The study of subcultures often consists of the study of the symbolism attached to clothing, music, other visible affections by members of the subculture and also the ways in which these same symbols are interpreted by members of the dominant culture.

Subcultures that show a systematic hostility to the dominant culture are sometimes described as countercultures.

Youth subcultures are often defined or distinguishable by elements such as fashion, beliefs, slang, dialects, behaviours or interests. Vehicles—such as cars, motorcycles, scooters, skateboards, surf boards—have played central roles in certain youth subcultures. In the United Kingdom in the 1960s rockers, for example, were associated with motorcycles. Many youth subcultures are associated with specific music genres, and in some cases music has been the primary characteristic of the group, such as with Punks, Ravers, Metalheads, Goths, Emoes, and Indies.

COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES

Pair-work:

1. Agree or disagree with the following statement:

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

1. The photograph below depicts four generations of one family - an infant, his mother, his maternal grandmother, and his maternal great-grandmother. Can you guess (predict?) their different stages life experience, their values, and patterns of behaviour?

1. This is the Kazimir Malevich's impressionist Unemployed Girl (1904). Speak on the problem of unemployment and the social, economic and psychological problems that it causes:

Play out:

Portray Millennials as the generations of their parents and their children see them.

Discussion:

1. Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind.

Date: 2016-01-14; view: 903