Unit Ten Youth Aspirations

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Unit Ten Youth Aspirations
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Part I

• aspiration a strong desire for high achievement
• syndrome a set of medical symptoms which
  represent a physical or mental disorder
• ballet A classical dance form characterized by
  grace and precision of movement and by elaborate
  formal gestures, steps, and poses
• gymnastics a sport that involves exercises
  intended to display strength and balance and
  agility

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• prodigy a child who shows a great ability at a
  young age eg. a child prodigy on piano
• well-round (esp. of a persons experience)full
  of different types of activity complete and
  varied
• well-grounded fully instructed or trained

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Pre-listening questions

• When you are in your teens, how did you spend
  your free time?

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• Here is a report on how American average
  teenagers spend their free time

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Key

• dropping about 16
• extracurricular activities (ballet, gymnastics,
  football) casual
• emphasis and stress expert/prodigies
• parents saying enough is enough/ cutting back/
  pulling children out of all their activities

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B

• Read the following difficult sentences and listen

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Part II British Youth

• heyday the time of greatest power, influence,
  success, or popularity
• advent the arrival or coming of (an important
  event, period, invention, etc.)
• flower power an counterculture of young people
  in the US during the 1960s and 70s
• teenyboppers a young person between the ages of
  about 9 and 14, esp. a girl, who is very
  interested in popular music and the bands who
  play it, the latest fashions, etc.
• hooliganism willful wanton and malicious
  destruction of the property of others

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• portray to describe according to ones opinion
• extraction family origin in a stated place
• option one of a number of courses of action that
  are possible and may be chosen
• executive a person or group having
  administrative or managerial authority in an
  organization
• VAT(value-added tax) (in Britain and many other
  European countries) a tax added to the price of
  an article, and paid by the buyer to the seller,
  who then pays it to the government
• embark to start

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• What are young people most worried about? What do
  adult people think of the young? What kind of
  young people will succeed in the future? Think
  about these questions before listening to the
  first part of the passage about British youth.
  Find the differences between your answer and what
  youve heard

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B

• Now listen to the second part of the passage.
  Finish the following diagram with key words.

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Key

• birth
• fashions, magazines, music and style
• heyday
• bands/the Rolling Stones, and the mini-skirt
• flower power, hippies
• new romantics, dance music

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C

• Listen to the whole passage. Briefly answer the
  following questions.

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Key

• Dancing, clubs, music, fashion and fun
• Fights, troubles, hooliganism, drugs and anarchy
• Not accepted/gradually accept now/more people
  coming/different culture backgrounds

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• Help raise finance
• Help raise finance
• Set up their own businesses
• Over 5,500
• About 3,700

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Part III Young people citizen service

• pledge (esp. in newspapers) to make a solemn
  promise of
• spark a small bit of burning material thrown out
  by a fire or by the striking together of two hard
  objects a vital, animating, or activating factor
  
• address to direct (a spoken or written message)
  to the attention of
• immunization the fact or process of becoming
  immune, as against a disease

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• scout a member of an association for training
  girls in character and self-help
• transcript a reproduction of a written record
  (e.g. of a legal or school record)

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• You are going to hear a speech delivered by the
  former American President Bill Clinton on young
  people and citizen service. While listening, take
  notes and complete the following outline.

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Key

• I. What we must every Americans life
• II. National service
• What its members do
• Support
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• III. Commitments the national government

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• A food recovery summit
• New Mentoring Alliance
• The Girl Scouts of America
• IV. Commitment to community
• A. Creative ways curriculum
• B. The National Service Scholars
• Communities and private service organizations
• V. the spirit of the Service Summit

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B

• Now listen to the speech again and answer the
  following questions. This time pay more attention
  to the important supporting details.

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Key

• 1. Cleaning the environment
• At-risk children
• Keep streets safe
• Child immunization
• 2. 50,000 new AmeriCorps scholarships
  organizations the chance to serve

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• Credit
• Course work
• Transcript
• A condition of graduation
• 4. 1,600 high school students / up to 1,000

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Part IV Listen and Relax