Listening Theme: Global Teenager

Listening

Theme: Global Teenager

Activity objectives:

• to practice the students in learning and revising vocabulary ;
• to develop the skills of listening, speaking and writing on the theme;
• to teach students to express their opinions.

Materials: cards, pictures, multimedia projector, video presentation.

                                   Procedure

 I. Organization Part

1. Greeting and Aims

- Hello, everybody! Nice to see you! I hope you are well and nice today!

Smile each other and sit down.

- Today we`re going to listen about teenagers in different countries  and find out if their interests and problems are alike and how are they different.

2. Warming Up

-  Please, think and tell me: Who are teenagers? Look at the picture.

Here are three groups of people: kids, young people and grown-ups”

-So, teenagers are young people, 13-19 years of age. Just like you are.

- Please, tell me, what is important for you? What plays a great role in your life?” “School, love, friends, parents, hobbies, independence, sport, pets, pocket money, understanding”

ІІ. Main Part

1. Pre-Listening Activity

            Presentation of lexical material

      - Look at the pairs of words and describe the difference:

              global — the globe;

              to appeal — an appeal;

              to exist — existence;

        the universe — universal.

 1. A spherical model of Earth or any planet (globe);

2. relating to or involving the whole world (global);

3. the power or ability to attract or stimulate the mind or emotions(an appeal);

4. to attract or interest someone(to appeal);

5. to be real or present (to exist);

6. when someone or something exist (existence);

7. everything is exist including stars, space etc.(the universe);

8. relating to everyone in the world (universal).

2. While-Listening Activity

1. Listen to the article and answer. What is the main idea of this text?

A GLOBAL TEENAGER

Music, television and movies do not respect national boundaries . Today one can hear rock-and-roll in the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai. It is common to find people wearing Levi jeans or T-shirts in every place of the world. Japanese television shows MTV from London. US films are popular worldwide. American painters are influenced by European artists. Mexican-style fast-food restaurants or Japanese sushi bars can be found in different corners of the planet.

  What about a teenager? Everyone can see that English plays an important part in a teenager's world. It is the dominant language in youth style. English is a way in which teenagers across the world communicate with each other and share a common culture. The example of this is the existence of graffiti written in English in many different countries.

  Teens are more ready to learn English on the streets of cyberspace than in the classroom. Young people learn English from their pen pals and friends on the Internet and it is not always the same as the English they learn in the classroom.

  In fact, teenagers in Ukraine may feel he/she has more in common with Internet friend in Norway than with other young people in their own country. Teens these days can chat online with their friends thousands of  kilometres away. Young people around the globe are beginning to hang around together on the Internet as they used to on the street. The effect of the Internet on a teenage boy enables him to find thousands of people around the world whose preferences in music or reading are similar to his own.

  The strongest force in international youth culture today is pop music. Music has universal appeal. The popularity of the satellite TV channel MTV is the example of this: their pop videos play in every place of the planet, from Dallas to Stockholm, from Rome to Kyiv, and since most of the songs are in English, kids from all over the world learn to sing in English, too.

  A Ukrainian teenager knows that he may live in a small town of Horlivka but he is right in the centre of the main trend, he feels he is exactly in tune with all his/her unseen friends from the Internet. Though, young people are individuals and must be encouraged to celebrate together their individual and cultural differences. They express themselves, for example, in Weblish, the new shorthand English used in text messaging and in the Internet chat rooms. Weblish is a kind of 'slang' — idiomatic English which often breaks the rules of correct English. For example, capital letters are not used. Here is a glossary of some of the key expressions and symbols used in chat rooms.

2. Put the pictures in correct order according to the text then match them with the statements 

a) The strongest force in international youth culture today is pop music.

b) The effect of the Internet on a teenage boy enables him to find thousands of people around the world whose preferences in music or reading are similar to his own.

c) Teens these days can chat online with their friends thousands of  kilometres away.

d) The new shorthand English used in text messaging and in the Internet chat rooms.

e)  It is a way in which teenagers across the world communicate with each other and share a common culture.

Keys:1e;2c;3b;4a;6d.

3. Post – Listening Activity

1. Game “Out -of –Order Phone”

-Let`s divide into two groups. I whisper one of the key phrases from the text you`ve heard to the student`s next to me. Then he or she whispers this word or word- combination to his neighbor and so on. If the last player of this team say this word correctly, they`ll get 1 point.(Global teenager, dominant language, universal appeal, text messaging, preferences in music, cultural differences).

2. Fill in the blanks in the sentences

Key words: respect, rock-and-roll, jeans, T-shirts, popular, restaurants, teenager's, existence, cyberspace, globe, universal, messaging.

3. Correct the sentences

1. Only American teenagers wear Levi jeans and T-shirts. (everywhere in the world)

2. Graffiti is local language of a teenager today (universe).

3. Global teenager shouldn`t know English well (should).

4. The Internet enables a modern teenager in Ukraine to feel himself isolated (to find thousands of people around the world whose preferences of music or reading similar to his own) .

5. Weblish is a kind of English (shorthand English used in text messaging and in the Internet chat rooms) .

T. – Thank you for your hard work, you were brilliant today! Have a nice day!

Literature:

http://pidruchniki.in.ua/angliyska-mova-9-klas-karp-yuk-o-d/

http://karhina.at.ua/_ld/1/127_anglyiska-mova-.pdf

http://www.ldoceonline.com

   Put the pictures in correct order according to the text then match them with the    statements 

a) The strongest force in international youth culture today is pop music.

b) The effect of the Internet on a teenage boy enables him to find thousands of people around the world whose preferences in music or reading are similar to his own.

c) Teens these days can chat online with their friends thousands of  kilometres away.

d) The new shorthand English used in text messaging and in the Internet chat rooms.

e)  It is a way in which teenagers across the world communicate with each other and share a common culture.