The generation gap. The problem of the young

Translate the given vocabulary

Adolescence

Adolescent

Adolescent rebellion

Avoid involvement

Bring up

Upbringing

Child-care manuals

Complexes

To give complexes

To reject conformity

Delinquent children

Emphasis on the present

Evade responsibility

Home background

Inhibitions

Juvenile delinquency

Lack of understanding

Negligence

Parent’s authority

Lax

Parent-child relationship

Permissive

Permissiveness

Excessive

Psychological wound

Psychologist

Rat-race

Spank

Traumatic experience

 

Discuss some statements and answer the questions

1) Parents and children don’t have common interests; they have nothing to talk together.

2) Generation gap is an inevitable phenomenon.

3) What is the main cause of misunderstandings between the generations?

4) Parent’s authority is the main thing in education.

5) The young people always try to evade responsibility.

6) Home background plays an important role in upbringing.

7) Spank is the most useful thing in upbringing.

8) Permissive attitude of parents can be the cause of serious problems.

9) What is the main problem of young people? Explain why.

10) The young should be grateful to younger generation.

 

Translate the given sentences

1) The young are not what they were.

2) The young are better educated.

3) The have more money to spend and enjoy their freedom.

4) They grow up more quickly.

5) They are not so dependent on their parents.

6) They think more for themselves.

7) They do not blindly accept the ideals of their elders.

8) Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it.

9) What they reject more than anything is conformity.

10) Can anything be right with the rat-race?

 

Translate the following sentences

1) Почему старшее поколение так часто использовало насилие, чтобы решить проблемы?

2) Почему они так несчастливы и страдают комплексом вины?

3) Сегодня ситуация может измениться.

4) Разве люди не будут работать лучше, если им предоставить полную свободу и ответственность?

5) Они накапливают все больше и больше материальных ценностей.

6) Представители старшего поколения всегда полагают, что знают лучше по одной простой причине – они обладают большим опытом.

7) Не потеряло ли старшее поколение связи с тем, что действительно важно в жизни?

8) Традиционно молодежь обращается к старшему поколению за советом.

9) Нет ничего плохого в том, чтобы жить настоящим, чем думать о прошлом или будущем.

10) Нет ничего плохого в том, чтобы наслаждаться своей работой и свободным временем.

 

Translate the words and phrases. Classify them according to the themes

1) Precede

2) Conformity

3) Enforced

4) Slavery

5) Spotless

6) Sinful

7) Heritage

8) Sanity

9) Guilt-ridden

10) Amass

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Adjectives _________________________________________________________________

Discussion

The point of one group – childhood means complete freedom from care, responsibility, social and economic pressures.

The point of another group – a happy childhood is a myth.

Use the following expressions.

Reach a serious decision/ responsible to smb. for smth./ irresponsible/ light-hearted, careless/ anxious, worried/ burden/ become mature/ unsettled problem/ complications/ cant’s decide on one’s own/ false choice.

 

Read and translate the text. Try to continue this text. Add your own ideas

The younger generation knows best.

Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation to generation and it is always true. It has never been truer than it is today. The young are better educated. They have more money to spend and enjoy their freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so dependent on their parents. They think more for themselves and do not blindly accept the ideals of their elders. Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is very marked indeed.

The old always assume that they know best for the simple reason that they have been around a bit longer. They don’t like to feel that their values are been questioned or threatened. And this is precisely what the young are doing. They take leave to doubt that the older generation has created the best of all possible worlds. What they reject more than anything is conformity. Office hours, for instance, are nothing more than enforced slavery. Wouldn’t people work better if they were given complete freedom and responsibility? And what about clothing? Who said that all men in the world should wear dull grey suits and short haircuts? If we turn our minds to more serious matters, why have the older generation so often used violence to solve their problems? Why are they so unhappy and guilt-ridden in their personal lives, so obsessed with mean ambitions and the desire to amass more and more material possessions? Can anything be right with the rat-race? Haven’t the old lost touch with all that is important in life?

 

Write down the composition “The main problems of young people”.

 

 

 

 

 

TESTS

Test 1. Theme: Books and readers.

1. What genres do you know? Write them down.

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