Текст и задания по теме «Проблемы молодежи»
YOUTH PROBLEMS
The most common problems of young people are:
the problem of misunderstanding (in a family)
problems with friends (girlfriends, boyfriends)
the problem of communication
the problem of choosing the future profession
the problem of pocket money
problems with parents (the generation gap)
emotional problems
financial problems
first love
to get a good education
punishment
frequent changes of mood
to have a good job
self-criticism
Youth is a beautiful time. The faces of young people, the young souls and young love - everything is beautiful. We can describe all the amazing attractions of this only period in life, which is usually remembered during all lifetime, but many youngsters say that their life is followed by numerous troubles. Really, there is no life without problems, but we can"t make little account of youth problems.
Unfortunately, most of the problems are connected with family relations.Moms and dads say that teenage rebels just growing up normal. To my mind, each new generation of kids receives negative reviews because of two entwined social dynamics: surliness and rebellion in youth; fear and loathing by parents, whose youth has passed them by. It"s called the generation gap, which pits the impertinence of youth against the attitudes of people over 30, who forget what a pain in the butt they were as kids.
If you look at history, youth has always looked bad from the adult perspective. Sometimes it"s because they don"t remember all the stupid, dangerous things they did as kids. Adults always tend to glorify their own past. It explains the reason why they often look down their noses at the next generations. Basically, what these critical adults are saying is, "why can"t these kids be like us." It is amazing, but every generation goes through this.
I"m deeply convinced that if some parents are ready to write off the next generation, they should remember how they behaved as young teenagers and recognize rebellion as a sign of growing up.But we should admit, there are some dangerous temptations of the youth and only parents can preserve their children from such social evil as alcohol, smoking and even early sex and killing oneself by using drugs.
For example, the former Soviet Union admitted that it had over 200,000 drug addicts. Because of this the government opened several special hospitals for these addicts. There"s a big anti-drugs campaign in the country"s schools too. Usually drugs come from several places including Western Europe and Afghanistan. Also, some addicts use glue or steal medical drugs from hospitals.
This problem is closely connected with gang-violence. As well as gangs of punks, rockers and hippies, there are ultra conservative gangs, too. They want to stop "the dangerous" influence of teenage culture in our country. But actually they follow the ideas of nationalism and even fascism.
One more acute problem for many young people is smoking. Millions of teenagers know it"s bad for them, but they still do it. I think it is rather easy to withstand the influence of those who smoke. We should be simply strong enough to say "no".
Many people offer their way out. Some of them say that teenagers should not be let to the discos because of the danger of drugs; others say that young people should be given more money and more freedom, because everything that is forbidden astonishes.
But in my opinion, one thing is clear: after decades of silence in the Soviet Union we face a lot of urgent problem, which should be solved as soon as it is possible.
Generation Gap
Sometimes our parents don’t understand us. They don’t understand some problems and things which are very important in teens’ life; for example, the lifestyles of young people, piercing, tattoos, drugs, sex, relationship with friends and teachers. So sometimes teens can’t tell them about their private life. Some parents don’t want to understand modern views, ideals and system of values.
Elderly people usually compare their childhood and youth with the present, and regard old times as better, always talking about “the good old days”. The young people, on the other hand, tend to think their times as the best. Teens look at the world with fresh eyes. Everything is new, interesting to them. Sometimes they cannot solve their everyday problems. But they want to cope with them by themselves. So adults shouldn’t prevent them from making their own mistakes.
People are said to become wiser with age. Sometimes it is true and sometimes it is not. I think that you can meet a wise man among the old as often as among the young. It is false that when old age wisdom has come, useless illusions have disappeared. Sometimes when we talk to adults, a monologue is a preferred form of expressing your ideas in such talks. That’s why some teens don’t like to talk to adults. I think that it’s in people’s nature to give advice. It seems to people that giving advice they can help somebody or put somebody on the right track. But if a person takes their advice and fails, he can blame an adult all of his life.
Our parents have their own ideas and views that their children don’t share and understand. They think that their children won’t find their place in life. They often say that now teens are very difficult to socialize with and dumpy. But children should settle all problems peacefully because they are their parents. They brought them up with loving care. And if children come to their parents for advice and help, they will do their best and help children to cope with problems and difficulties.
Questions on the topic «Problems with Parents and Friends»
What are the most common problems of young people?
Do you share the opinion that problems can make people stronger?
How do you choose your friends? What makes people friends?
Do you spend much time with your friends? How do you spend your time together?
Do you have much in common with your friends?
What do you usually talk about?
What jobs, books, outfit, hobbies are popular among the teenagers?
What is better: to have one close friend or a lot of friends? Why?
Do you know about his (her) problems?
Do you get on with your classmates?
Is it possible to solve your problems by yourself?
Do your parents help you to solve your problems?
Can you help your friends to solve their problems?
What is the best way to solve the problems?
Do you think youth organisations can help?
List of words on the topic «Problems with Parents, Teachers and Friends»
a rule - правило
strict - строгий
necessary - необходимый
to need in - нуждаться в
be responsible for - отвечать за что-то
private life - личная жизнь
own business - личное дело
attitude to - отношение к
to interfere - вмешиваться
a permission - разрешение
I am allowed (to allow) - Мне разрешают
to influence - влиять
to copy with problems (= overcome problems)– справляться с проблемами (преодалевать)
to quarrel with - ссориться с
to argue - спорить с
to contradict - возражать
to answer back - огрызаться
to agree/ disagree with - (не) соглашаться с
to be on good terms with (= get on well with) - быть в хороших отношениях
reason / cause - причина
to follow my parents’ advice - следовать совету родителей
to consult my parents/ friends - советоваться с родителями
to insist on – настаивать на
to face the same problem - сталкиваться с той же проблемой
to treat as a child - обращаться как с ребенком
to respect - уважать
have much in common - иметь много общего
to trust- доверять
to betray – предавать
to envy – завидовать
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Life used to be fun for "teenagers". They used to have money to spend, and free time to spend it in. They used to wear teenage clothes, and meet in teenage coffee bars and discos. Some of them still do. But for many young people, life is harder now. Jobs are difficult to find. There"s not so much money around. Things are more expensive, and it"s hard to find a place to live.
Teachers say that students work harder than they used to. They are less interested in politics, and more interested in passing exams. They know that good exam results may get them better jobs.
Most young people worry more about money than their parents did twenty years ago. They try to spend less and save more. They want to be able to get homes of their own one day.
For some, the answer to unemployment is to leave home and look for work in one of Britain"s big cities. Every day hundreds of young people arrive in London from other parts of Britain, looking for jobs. Some find work, and stay. Others don"t find it, and go home again, or join the many unemployed in London. There used to be one kind of teenage fashion, one style, one top pop group. Then, the girls all wore mini-skirts and everyone danced to the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
But now an eighteen-year-old might be a punk, with green hair and chains round his legs, or a skin head, with short, short hair and right wing politics, or a "rasta", with long uncombed hair and a love for Africa. There"s a lot of different music around too. There"s reggae, the West Indian sound, there"s rock, there"s heavy metal, country and western, and disco. All these kinds of music are played by different groups and listened to by different fans.
When you read the newspapers and watch the news on television, it"s easy to get the idea that British young people are all unemployed, angry and in trouble.
But that"s not true. Three quarters of them do more or less what their parents did. They do their best at school, find some kind of work in the end, and get married in their early twenties. They get on well with their parents, and enjoy family life. They eat fish and chips, watch football on TV, go to the pub, and like reading about pop stars. After all, if they didn"t, they wouldn"t be British, would they?
Перевод топика: Проблемы молодежи
Раньше для подростков жизнь была весельем. У них всегда были какие-то деньги и свободное время. Они носили подростковые вещи и встречались в кафе и дискоклубах. Некоторые из них такие до сих пор. Но для большинства молодых людей жизнь сейчас намного тяжелее. Трудно найти работу. Денег не так много, вещи более дорогие, трудно найти себе жилье.
Преподаватели говорят, что студенты работают больше, чем раньше. Они менее интересуются политикой и больше обеспокоены сдачей экзаменов. Они понимают, что лучшие результаты экзаменов помогут найти лучшую работу.
Большая часть молодежи сейчас беспокоится о деньгах сильнее, чем их родители 20 лет назад. Они пытаются тратить меньше и больше экономят. Они хотят когда-нибудь иметь свой дом.
Некоторым, чтобы решить проблему безработицы, приходится уехать на работу в один из крупных городов Британии. Каждый день в Лондон приезжают сотни молодых людей из других городов в поисках работы. Часть из них находят работу и остаются. Остальные же возвращаются домой или присоединяются к числу безработных Лондона. Раньше существовал единый стиль подростковой моды, единая самая лучшая поп группа. Девушки носили мини-юбки и все танцевали под музыку Битлз и Роллинг-Стоунз.
Теперь же, подросток может быть зеленоволосым панком с цепями на ногах или скин-хэдом с очень короткой стрижкой и правыми политическими убеждениями, или же растаманом с длинными нечесаными волосами и любовью к Африке. Существует масса различной музыки. Есть регги, западно-индийский «саунд», рок, хэви-метал, кантри и вестерн, диско. Все эти стили музыки исполняются разными группами и их слушают разные поклонники.
Когда читаешь газеты и смотришь телевизор, очень легко может сложиться впечатление, что в Англии вся молодежь без работы, обозленная и имеет неприятности.
Это не так. Три четверти из них более или менее занимаются тем же, чем занимались их родители. Они пытаются хорошо учиться в школе, найти хорошую работу и жениться после 20 лет. Они ладят с родителями и наслаждаются семейной жизнью. Они едят рыбу и чипсы, смотрят футбол по телевизору, ходят в бар и любят читать о поп-звездах. В конце концов, если бы они этим не занимались, они не были бы англичанами, не так ли?
Problems of Youth - Проблемы молодежи
Life used to be fun for "teenagers". They used to have money to spend, and free time to spend it in. They used to wear teenage clothes, and meet in teenage coffee bars and discos. Some of them still do. But for many young people, life is harder now. Jobs are difficult to find. There"s not so much money around. Things are more expensive, and it"s hard to find a place to live.
Teachers say that students work harder than they used to. They are less interested in politics, and more interested in passing exams. They know that good exam results may get them better jobs.
Most young people worry more about money than their parents did twenty years ago. They try to spend less and save more. They want to be able to get homes of their own one day.
For some, the answer to unemployment is to leave home and look for work in one of Britain"s big cities. Every day hundreds of young people arrive in London from other parts of Britain, looking for jobs. Some find work, and stay. Others don"t find it, and go home again, or join the many unemployed in London. There used to be one kind of teenage fashion, one style, one top pop group. Then, the girls all wore mini-skirts and everyone danced to the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
But now an eighteen-year-old might be a punk, with green hair and chains round his legs, or a skin head, with short, short hair and right wing politics, or a "rasta", with long uncombed hair and a love for Africa. There"s a lot of different music around too. There"s reggae, the West Indian sound, there"s rock, there"s heavy metal, country and western, and disco. All these kinds of music are played by different groups and listened to by different fans.
When you read the newspapers and watch the news on television, it"s easy to get the idea that British young people are all unemployed, angry and in trouble.
But that"s not true. Three quarters of them do more or less what their parents did. They do their best at school, find some kind of work in the end, and get married in their early twenties. They get on well with their parents, and enjoy family life. They eat fish and chips, watch football on TV, go to the pub, and like reading about pop stars. After all, if they didn"t, they wouldn"t be British, would they?
Перевод текста: Problems of Youth - Проблемы молодежи
Раньше для подростков жизнь была весельем. У них всегда были какие-то деньги и свободное время. Они носили подростковые вещи и встречались в кафе и дискоклубах. Некоторые из них такие до сих пор. Но для большинства молодых людей жизнь сейчас намного тяжелее. Трудно найти работу. Денег не так много, вещи более дорогие, трудно найти себе жилье.
Преподаватели говорят, что студенты работают больше, чем раньше. Они менее интересуются политикой и больше обеспокоены сдачей экзаменов. Они понимают, что лучшие результаты экзаменов помогут найти лучшую работу.
Большая часть молодежи сейчас беспокоится о деньгах сильнее, чем их родители 20 лет назад. Они пытаются тратить меньше и больше экономят. Они хотят когда-нибудь иметь свой дом.
Некоторым, чтобы решить проблему безработицы, приходится уехать на работу в один из крупных городов Британии. Каждый день в Лондон приезжают сотни молодых людей из других городов в поисках работы. Часть из них находят работу и остаются. Остальные же возвращаются домой или присоединяются к числу безработных Лондона. Раньше существовал единый стиль подростковой моды, единая самая лучшая поп группа. Девушки носили мини-юбки и все танцевали под музыку Битлз и Роллинг-Стоунз.
Теперь же, подросток может быть зеленоволосым панком с цепями на ногах или скин-хэдом с очень короткой стрижкой и правыми политическими убеждениями, или же растаманом с длинными нечесаными волосами и любовью к Африке. Существует масса различной музыки. Есть регги, западно-индийский «саунд», рок, хэви-метал, кантри и вестерн, диско. Все эти стили музыки исполняются разными группами и их слушают разные поклонники.
Когда читаешь газеты и смотришь телевизор, очень легко может сложиться впечатление, что в Англии вся молодежь без работы, обозленная и имеет неприятности.
Это не так. Три четверти из них более или менее занимаются тем же, чем занимались их родители. Они пытаются хорошо учиться в школе, найти хорошую работу и жениться после 20 лет. Они ладят с родителями и наслаждаются семейной жизнью. Они едят рыбу и чипсы, смотрят футбол по телевизору, ходят в бар и любят читать о поп-звездах. В конце концов, если бы они этим не занимались, они не были бы англичанами, не так ли?
Уровень B. Мой мир.
Teens’ problems
People face different problems every day. These can be some problems concerning work, money, and just personal problems in the family. But not only adults have problems. Teens also have their own and not easy problems.One on the most important is the problem concerning further education. Not every teen can immediately decide what he will be in future. This situation is very difficult. Only a few of them know their goal, and it`s very important for further developing their abilities and talents. Knowing what you want is really a pawn of great success.
As for me, I have not decided yet what I will be in future, but in our school in the eighth form we are to choose the majors of our further education. I understand that, if I don’t like any subject, I shouldn’t despair, I have just o try other sciences. But, if I want to have a good result, I should work hard and not be lazy.
A personal life is very important for young people too. It influences their behavior, character, and, especially, their studies. If a teenager has problems in his, family he will be sharp, aggressive, and very vulnerable. It’s very difficult for him to study, and he doesn’t have any energy for creation. Usually, parents cannot understand what has happened to their child. Sometimes they scold him, but it only underestimates the teen’s self-esteemation.
Sometimes teens are involved into a bad company. They strive to “stand out of the crowd”. That’s why they do stupid and dangerous things.
I think that parents should know what their child does. It’s very good when there is always confidence and understanding in the family.
Another main problem for teenagers is the first love. It is not easy to understand if it is a real love or just some affection. Sometimes they need their parent’s support.
Despite all these difficulties and problems, it is really a good age. Adults often remember those years, the years when they were young, with pleasure. And soon all problems will go away, and there will be only good impressions in the memory!
Люди сталкиваются с различными проблемами каждый день. Это могут быть некоторые неприятности, касающиеся работы, денег и просто личные проблемы в семье. Но не только взрослые имеют трудности жизни. Подростки также имеют свои собственные не простые проблемы.
Одна из самых важных является проблема дальнейшего образования. Не каждый подросток может сразу решить, кем он будет в будущем. Эта ситуация очень трудна. Лишь немногие из молодежи знают их цель, и это очень важно для дальнейшего развития их способностей и талантов. Знание того, что ты хочешь – это действительно залог большого успеха.
Что касается меня, я еще не решила, кем я буду в будущем, но в нашей школе в восьмом классе мы должны выбирать направление для дальнейшего образования. Я понимаю, что если я не люблю какой-либо предмет, я не должна отчаиваться, я должна попробовать другие науки. Но если я хочу иметь хороший результат, то нужно упорно трудиться и не лениться.
Личная жизнь очень важна для молодых людей тоже. Она влияет на их поведение, характер и особенно на учебу. Если подросток имеет проблемы в своей семье, то он будет резким, агрессивным, и очень ранимым. Ему очень трудно учиться, и он не имеет энергии для творчества. Обычно родители не могут понять, что случилось с их ребенком. Иногда они ругают его, но это только занижает самооценку подростка.
Иногда подростки попадают в плохую компанию. Они стремятся "выделиться из толпы". Поэтому они делают глупые и порой опасные вещи.
Я думаю, что родители должны знать, чем занимается их ребенок. Это очень хорошо, когда в семье есть доверие и понимание.
Другая важная проблема подростков - это первая любовь. Не так уж и легко понять, настоящая ли это любовь или просто симпатия. Иногда они нуждаются в поддержке своих родителей.
Несмотря на все эти трудности и проблемы, это действительно хороший возраст. Взрослые часто вспоминают с удовольствием те годы, когда они были молоды. И вскоре все проблемы исчезнут, а в памяти останутся только хорошие впечатления!
Our age is so strange. We know that we are on the way to become adults. But this way is so hard. And we teenagers usually stay alone with our thoughts, because nobody even we ourselves understand what is happening around us. There are a lot of problems – that is what we know exactly. And problems are everywhere and we cannot expect why and where they come from. This is very difficult time though some people think that it is the best time. And what is more it"s hard to stay quite and calm. Every young generation has more complicated problems than previous. And maybe nowadays teenagers have more problems then other generations. And this difference awakes misunderstandings with parents. Sometimes it seems that our parents are too tiresome and dull in their demands. And also they often interfere into our life. Parents always say that we are lazy and can"t do anything except rest. Moreover they give not much money, and we hardly can find a job because in our age we cannot be responsible for money of firm or do some kinds of job. And there is a great problem: parents also always doubt in our independence. Our age – is time of making a choice what we will be in future, what we want to do and how. So we have to choose the university to have better education and future profession. If you have a good education you"ll be always perfect at you profession and of coarse you"ll earn more money, make your life better. And the best way to prepare is to study better at school. The school ages are also very difficult. We do a lot of homework and even have no time to go for a walk or do whatever we want. Another problem in school – marks. And we try to do our best to have good marks. But our parents never like them. And for boys there is such problem like conscription. And nowadays it" Also nowadays a problem of drugs is very actual. A lot of teenagers have drug addiction. And sometimes they use drugs not because of that they want. And it often leads to bad ends. Moreover, you may have problems with health. Emotional problems for young people can be far more difficult than financial ones. The typical teenager problem is that "nobody understands me". Youth is also the time to meet your first love. It is of coarse wonderful but as it is widely known that first love often has an unhappy end. This also increases young people"s problems. Even friends cannot always stay friends when young people begin to understand themselves a little bit better old friends sometimes just grow apart. And sometimes you have problems in communicating with each other and you even stay alone. So as you see it"s very difficult to be young nowadays as indeed it always was. But you only can be young ones and some wonderful things can happen to you only when you"re young. So it"s better to enjoy youth while it lasts.