Урок " Focus on Youth "

Focus on Youth. 11 Form.

Objectives: - to develop students’ cognitive and creative skills;

- to foster students’ spoken habits;

- to encourage students to use prior knowledge on

the topic “Is it easy to be young?”;

- to practice listening, speaking and writing skills

on the topic;

- to  develop culture of the communication.

Youth is not a time of life-it is a state of mind,

it is the temper of the will,

a quality of imagination,

a vigor of the emotions,

a predominance of courage over timidity,

of the appetite for adventure over love of easy…

                           ( by Samuel Ullman )

I.Greeting

T: Good morning! How are you? I see you are all fine and hope you will be active and energetic. Let’s start our lesson.

II. Warm-up

Discuss

P1: Being teenagers is a time of conflicting desires and possibilities. You want to go out and have fun, have social life, have money – but you can’t earn them, have a boyfriend or a girlfriend and at the same time your schoolwork is becoming more and more demanding, you have more and more duties about the house – you are dependent on school and parents. And as a result you have emotional problems.

P2: Many teenagers have such a problem as “Parents-Kids”. Teenagers want to go their own way according to their time, have their own style of clothes, even their own language-youth slang. And our parents are more conservative.

Often our parents are too busy earning money for living. They don’t spend much time with their children. That’s why teenagers easily come under the influence of other people. They try to copy them from hairstyles and clothes to bad habits as smoking, drugs, alcohol.

Often teenagers want to be independent from their parents, but they don’t know how to do it. It explains their behavior, unusual hairstyle, clothes, too much make-up. The young people and adults have different points of view concerning many things.

P3: Being a teenager is also a time when friendship can be unstable. They have wrong criteria in choosing their friends. Their friends should be better on the outside than the inside, so they often quarrel with their devoted friends, criticize them, spread their friends’ secrets around school.

P4: Self-concept of teenagers changes from negative to positive because of various influences on their lives. What you think of yourself, or your self-concept, directly affects how you act. If you like yourself, you are usually happy and pleasant to be around. Teenagers who have poor self-concept may not try to do well in school, sometimes they show dislike for themselves by the way they treat others.

III. Main Part

1. Reading

A citizen is a member of a country. He has the rights and the duties.

Citizenship is the relationship between an individual and a state. All the members of our community, from the youngest to the eldest, have to cooperate. By cooperation, it doesn’t mean giving huge efforts. Simple acts and easy behavior can help us ameliorate our level of life.

As citizens, all we have to do are the steps below:

• start with your own home, take care of your house and yard;
• respect  your neighbors, be polite with them and help them if necessary;
• don’t overuse water and electricity;
• don’t litter and throw trash in the street;
• try to cross the street in the crossing passage;
• let’s try to walk in the sidewalk or the pavement;
• respect your school, keep it clean;
• being a citizen is a source of pride. Don’t try to ignore your origins;
• act nicely with tourists;
• help the people in need ( blood donations, calling the police, the ambulance, helping old people…).

When you become a parent, teach this to your children. Citizenship starts from childhood.

2. Comprehension

1. 1. The text talks about:

         a  citizenship and the traits of bad citizens;

         b  traits of good citizens;

         c  what citizenship is and how one can be a good citizen.

      2. Citizens:

         a  have rights;

         b  have rights and responsibilities towards their community;

         c  have responsibilities towards their community.

      3. ‘Allegiance’ means:

         a  protection;

         b  loyalty and support;

         c  duty.

2. Decide whether these examples of behaviour are those of a good (GC) or a bad citizen (BC).

Respect the lawIs not cooperative

Votes

Does not care about the protection of the environment

Throws rubbish in the street

Leaves his/her bus seat for an old person

Helps lost strangers find their ways

Thinks that voluntary work is a waste of time

Jumps the queue

Participates in community service

3. Writing

Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

1. Good citizens would participate in -------------------- by choosing the candidate they feel they can -------------------- for.
2. Citizens have -------------- but they must also be aware of their -------------towards their community.
3. Good citizens must work for the prosperity of the ----------------- they live in.
4. They should also respect the ----------------- norms of the society.
5. Civic engagement is the positive ----------------- in the affairs of the community.
6. Love of and devotion to one’s country is called --------------- .
7. An ----------------- citizen is involved in the ------------------- of the community.

4. Listening

Text

HOT TOPIC

Celebrating the Talent of Melbourne’s Homeless Community.

Would you ever think about a homeless person as talented, creative or in possession of some pretty amazing skills? Probably not.

It’s time to change your perception. Youth Projects supports Where The Heart Is Community Festival. Now in its eighth year, the festival is a celebration of the lives, skills, talents, creativity and achievements of Melbourne’s homeless and marginally housed community.

The festival, put together by over 30 organisations in the health and homeless sectors and supported by the local, state and federal governments, was held on March 23 in Fitzroy North’s Edinburgh Gardens.

Aimed at offering a day of fun and performance for Melbourne’s homeless. The day was packed full of fantastic activities including music performances, poetry readings and art and craft workshops as well as services including free haircuts, massages and meals.

Youth Projects understands that part of being homeless is losing your connection to society and to your personal identity. Homeless and disadvantaged people struggle to feel part of a community – becoming re-connected to something is part of the process of ending homelessness.

Where The Heart Is encourages proactivity. Last year, over 1,000 homeless and disadvantaged people attended the festival in the hope of meeting people they could connect with.

Determined to help Melbourne’s homeless and disadvantaged community, Youth Projects runs a program called The Living Room. Located in the heart of the city, the initiative provides services including food and material aid, phone and internet, housing support and counseling.

5. Comprehension

a) Choose from A to C to complete each sentence correctly.

1. Now the festival is a celebration of the lives, skills, talents, creativity and achievements of Melbourne’s ------------- and marginally housed community.
2. The festival, put together by over 30 organisations and------------ by the local, state  and federal governments, was held on March 23.
3. Aimed of offering a day of fun and performance for Melbourne’s homeless, the day was packed full of fantastic ---------- including music performances, poetry readings and art and craft workshops.
4. Youth Projects understands that part of being homeless is -------------- your connection to society.
5. Homeless and disadvantages people ------------- to feel part of a community.
6. Last year, over 1,000 homeless and disadvantaged people ------------ the festival in the hope of meeting people they could connect with.

1.  A unemployed             B homeless                 C injured

2.  A supported                 B succeeded                C visited

3.  A events                       B contests                   C activities

4.  A changing                   B finding                    C losing

5.  A struggle                     B appeal                     C fight

6.  A offered                      B attended                  C obsessed

b)True or False.

1. A homeless person can’t be talented and creative.
2. Where The Heart Is Community Festival was organized more than 10 years ago.
3. Over 30 organisations in the health and homeless sectors took part in the festival.
4. The festival is a celebration of the lives, skills and talents of Melbourne’s homeless and marginally housed community.
5. There were a lot of different activities at the festival.
6. At the festival homeless persons could have free haircuts, massages and meals.
7. Homeless and disadvantaged people attended the festival in the hope of having free services.
8. A program, aimed to help Melbourne’s homeless and disadvantaged community, is called The Dining Room.

IV. Summing-up

T: The lesson is over. What are the assosiasions with the topic we have discussed? What new information did you learn? What input did you get?

Your homework is to do the individual project “Citizenship for Young People”. Include the following points:

• basic information;
• goals;
• programs;
• plans for future.

                                                                      Ivanna Anikeieva.

                                                                    Ozerna Secondary School.