Срсп 7. Problems of youth.

Практические цели: овладение новым лексическим материалом, развитие навыков разговорной речи на основе задании, проведение дискуссии по предложенной теме.

Young people's problems

Everybody says your youth is probably the best time of your life, that being young means romance, love, new discov­eries and so on. But it is also the most difficult time because you have to make some very important decisions which will influence all your future life.

Things are not easy nowadays even for adults, but for teenagers who have to find their own place in society, it's very difficult. It is necessary not only to adapt to your society, but also to be confident about your position in five, ten or twenty years' time.

Every girl or boy leaving secondary school should choose an institution of higher education or, if he or she doesn't want to study any more, choose a job straight way. In planning your future you have to think about the possibility of finding a job after finishing your education.

But even if you are studying, you need some money of your own. Your parents probably will provide you with home, food and necessary clothes, but you will have your own tastes, and your parents won't pay for them. To pay for extra clothes, tapes, books, things necessary for your hobbies, you have to work, and in our country it is very difficult for a teenager to find a job without any qualification. You're lucky if you can do something that others can't; for exam­ple, if you're good at Maths or English, you can give lessons.

Emotional problems for young people can be far more difficult than financial ones. The typical teenager problem is that «nobody understands me». The parents often continue to treat their teenage children as if they were infant, when they probably consider themselves to be grown up.

Youth is also the time to meet your first love. It is, of course, 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.

Ex.1. Read the text and react to the following statements by adding something of your own. Add one of the phrases below.

1. To the best of my knowledge this problem is very …..

2. If my memory doesn’t fail me the youth are independent in ….

3. If I’m not mistaken many mistakes are happened because of ….

4. According to the sources it was happened in …

5. It should be noted …

Ex.2. Compose a story, using the following words and expressions.

the best time of life, first love, new discov­eries, to make decisions, adults, teenagers, own place in society, the possibility, unhappy end , to grow up, to treat, infant, grow apart.

Ex.3. Work in pairs.

Which of the following do you think is the riskiest?

1. playing Russian roulette

2. taking cocaine

3. riding a motorbike at 200 kph

4. crossing the road with your eyes closed

5. hang-gliding

6. smoking tobacco

Ex.4. Read the quotations about smoking. What view of smoking does each quotation express?

1. ‘Out of thousand smokers of 20 cigarettes a day, one will be murdered, six be killed on the roads, and about three hundred and thirty will die prematurely because of their smoking’.

2. ‘If you decide to give up smoking and drinking, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer’.

3. Teenagers begin to smoke because they think it’s cool and because they think they look grown-up. The cigarette is a symbol of defiance and an attack on authority’.

4. I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading’.

5. The world spends $150 billion a year on smoking-related illness’.

Ex.5. Discuss the following in small groups.

1. How much is a packet of cigarettes in your country?

2. What sort of health warnings are there?

3. Do tobacco companies sponsor any sports events?

4. Why is it that drugs such as nicotine and alcohol are legal in many countries, while other drugs are illegal?

5. Do you think smoking should be banned in all public places? Or, should smokers be allowed to smoke when and where they want?

6. Have attitudes to smoking changed in your country over the past few years? How? Do as many people smoke?

Ex.6. Give a short summary of the text .

Learning recommendations:

Class activity: In this unit of the course book students are supposed to get introduced with the new material: read the text, translate into their native language, summarize in English, complete post-reading tasks and grammar exercises, discuss new speech topics, compose monologues and dialogues in the class.

Home task: Students are assigned to find out additional short information about specific topic of the unit, complete grammar exercises, prepare reports given by the teacher.

Literature:

1. Учебно-методический комплекс для студентов 1 курса неязыковых специальностей, М.Ж. Тусупбекова, А.М. Мухтарханова, 2008, Астана, _____стр.

UNIT 8.

1. INTERNET AND ITS GREAT POSSIBILITIES

Text: The Introduction to the WWW and the Internet.

Grammar : Revision.

Практические цели: ознакомление с новыми технологиями всемирной сети Интернет и его значение. Формирование устной речи с извлечением основной информации. Закрепление грамматического материала.

The Introduction to the WWW and the Internet.

Millions of people round the world use the Internet to search for and retrieve information on all sorts of topics in a wide variety of areas including the arts, business, government, humanities, news, politics and recreation. People communicate through electronic mail (e-mail), discussion groups, chat channels and other means of information exchange. They share information and make commercial and business transactions. All this activity is possible because tens of thousands of networks are connected to the Internet and exchange information in the same basic ways.

The World Wide Web is a part of the Internet. But it is not a collection of networks. Rather, it is information that is connected or linked together like a web. You access this information through one interface or tool called a Web browser. The number of resource and services that are part of the World Wide Web is growing extremely fast. In 1996 there were more than 20 million users of the WWW. By using a computer terminal (hardware) connected to a network that is a part of the Internet, and by using a program (software) to browse or retrieve information that is a part of the WWW, the people connected to the Internet and WWW through the local providers access to a variety of information. Each browser provides graphical interface. You move from place to place, from site to site on the WWW, by using a mouse to click on a portion of text icon or region of a map. This item are called hyperlinks or links. Each link you select represents a document, an image, a video clip or audio file somewhere on the Internet. The user doesn't need to know where it is, the browser follows the link.

All sort of things are available on the WWW. One can use Internet for recreational purposes. Many TV and radio stations broadcast live on the WWW. Essentially, if something can be put into digital format and stored in computer, then its available on the WWW. You can even visit museums, gardens, cities through out the World , learn foreign language and meet new friends. And, of course, you can play computer games through WWW, competing with partners from other countries continents.

Just a little bit of exploring the WWW will show you what a lot of use and fun it is.