Chapter 14 physical and cognitive development in early adulthood

The chapter characterizes the transition from adolescence to adulthood and illustrates some pros and cons regarding a decision to take a permanent job that initiates a career and a commitment to adulthood.But before reading try to do the following:

a) . answer and discuss the following questions:

1. Can you distinguish youth from adolescence and adulthood? Can you define the age of adulthood?

2. Do you know the criteria for the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood? Why it is hard to determine the beginning of adulthood.

3. Compare and contrast the transition from high school to college with the transition from elementary school to middle school or junior high school. Have you ever experienced burnout?

b) explain the term “burnout” ['bə:naut] (физическое или моральное истощение) in English.

c) find synonyms and antonyms to:

permanent, vague, incidence.

d) guess the meaning of the following words and word combinations without using the dictionary:

Criteria, college, geographical, ethnic, formation, styles, basal metabolism, liberal, epidemic, course, productivity, discipline, specific, planning, disorganized, dramatic, categories.

e) do the following phonetic exercises:

Ex.1. Transcribe and pronounce the words given below.

Struggle, duration, decision, junior, focus.

Ex.2. Read the following clusters with assimilation.

Is the; that define; independent decision; mid-twenties; twentieth century; indicates that.

Ex.3. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [w] correctly.

Between, with, work-related, mid-twenties, overweight, widespread, twentieth, twenties, toward rewarding, women workers, wishes.

Ex.4. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [r].

Transitional, temporariness, struggle, from, duration, transition, interaction, increased, freshmen, extreme, work-related, strength, overall, improved, decreases, rate, drugs, recovery, century; premarital, extramarital, remained, recently, reversed, trend, predictable course, writers, career, research, increase, recent years, greater, three, interaction, relationships.

Ex.5. Pronounce the words from the text containing the nasal sound [ŋ].

Becoming, making, experiencing, ongoing, during, requiring, strength, requiring, young, decreasing, health-impairing, promoting, health-improving, being, increasing, occurring, peaking, planning, think, making, predicting, guiding, rewarding, regarding.

Ex.6. Pronounce the words from the text containing the voiced sound [ð].

This, that, the, than, those, there, themselves, their.

Ex.7. Pronounce the words from the text containing the voiceless sound [Ө].

Youth, health, strength, twentieth, both, thirties, three think.

Ex.8. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [v].

Involved, varies, involves, movement, diverse achievement, overall, improved, perceive, overweight, recovery, very, behavior, have, however, reversed inevitable, developmental, variety, vaguely.

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Scan through the text making use of the active terminological vocabulary.