Todays Youth

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Unit 7 Todays Youth Preparation Listening Readin
g Discussion
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• Preparation
• Interpreting the picture
• What is the man in the center of the picture
  trying to do?
• The man in the center of the picture is
  trying to fly.
• 2) What kind of person is he?
• He is the kind of person who will not say
  it cant be done till he has tried.
• Are you and the man alike in some ways?
• Yes, we are alike in some ways. We are young
  and idealistic, and to us anything seems
  possible. We have a lot of beautiful dreams and
  want to try and taste everything. W dont blindly
  accept other peoples ideas.

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Listening Exercise 1 1) T 2) T 3) F 4)
F Exercise 2 1) Make a difference Day could
make a difference too. 2) looked worn and old
really didn'tt have money to do much to improve
them. 3) Pay for trees, flowers and paint for
one park 4) planted the trees and flowers 5)
painted all of the playground equipment 6) did
the same thing 7) there wasnt much there for
children to read 8) literacy is essential to
the country 9) businesses, schools, and
service groups they would look cheerful for sick
children. 10) collected nine hundred
childrens books Exercise 3 ---help the
disabled ---donate blood ---plant trees ---Pick
up litter in public places.
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• Reading
• Enriching your word power
• 1) A 2) B 3) C 4) critical C institution
  C 5) C 6) C 7) B 8) run A board A
• 9)C 10) B 11) C 12) B 13) A 14) C 15) B
• Reading Comprehension
• Understanding the Organization of the Text
• Para. 1-3
• Para. 4-21
• A. Para. 4-9
• b. the decline of the family
• c. the rise of television
• d. the weakness of their civic education
• e. stress
• B. Para. 10-21
• a. the sharpest decline in voting is
  among those between 18 and 15. (Para. 2-16)
• b. Young people seem to have a
  half-formed understanding of citizenship. (Para.
  17-22)
• 3) Para. 22-23 Young people lack of knowledge
  and interest

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• 2. Getting th eGist of the Text
• Knows less, cares less, votes less, and is less
  critical of its leaders and institutions
• American politics and society
• At least as well informed that is no longer the
  case.
• citizenship crisis keep democracy alive in the
  1990s and beyond.
• A half-formed understanding of citizenship
  rights responsibilities
• A new generation gap their lack of knowledge and
  interest
• 3. Understanding specific Information
• F 2) T 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) T 7 ) T 8) T
• 4. Reference Words
• The news about the dead and missing in the floods
  in southeastern Ohio.
• The generation of young adults from 18 to 29
  years of age.
• Authority
• The fact that the disengagement seems to run
  deeper among young Americans between 18 and 29.
• Young people
• Older people

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• 7) Younger members of the public being at least
  as well informed as older people
• All the controversy
• Sloth or corruption in government
• The young peoples
• Vocabulary
• A. alarmed B alarming C. alarmingly
• A. corruption B. corrupt C. corrupt
• A. democracy B. democratic C. democratically
• A. doctoral B. doctorate C. doctor
• A. preoccupied b. preoccupies C.
  preoccupation
• A. illustration B. illustrate C. illustrative
• A. indifferently B. indifference C.
  indifferent
• A. mobility B. mobile C. mobilize
• A. politics B. political C. politically
• A. widely B. width c. widened
• A. alienate B. alienated c. alienation
• A. election B. elect C. elective

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• 2. 1) interference 2) rock the boat 3)
  concurred 4) cut off 5) drop out 6)
  harassing 7) waiting on tables 8) deem 9)
  petition 10) Bureau 11) obscene 12) settled
• Discussion
• Interpreting Sayings about Youth
• If you say something is half the battle (won),
  you mean that it is the most difficult part of a
  process so that once you have completed this
  part, you have almost succeeded. Youth is a
  critical period in ones life. If you can do well
  when you are young, you are very likely to be
  successful all your life.
• If you want to lead an easy and comfortable life
  when you are young, our life will be miserable
  when you get old.
• The energy, vitality, enthusiasm, curiosity and
  courage that you have when you are young will
  gradually disappear as time goes by
• Dont waste your precious time, for youth, once
  spent, will never come again.