Teens are Alright

It is not easy to be a teenager. People complain about you a lot. Teachers grumble you are disorganised and never hand in homework on time. Aunts and uncles think your opinions are unreasonable. Even your parents sometimes get ____________________ with you and accuse you of being unreliable just because you have forgotten to take the rubbish out or accuse you of being charming to people outside the home and rude and ___________________________ to your whole family. The good news is that while still a teenager you have got all the right to be immature. You haven’t had as much time to grow up as those adult critics; so what do they expect? It is normal for a young person to be a bit irresponsible sometimes. The truth is, it has been recently _______________________ proven that the brain region that controls ___________________ and emotions gets mature only by the age of twenty. So it isn’t ______________________that teenagers frequently annoy their parents, they just can be irritating by definition. There are worse things that not being fully grown up at eighteen. If someone is dishonest and tells lies, or is __________________ towards other people, that is a more serious problem that may not just go away with age.

Patient Bear Science Judge Intend Sense

6. Form all possible parts of speech from the given words:

patient, scientific, sensitive, judgement, intentional

verb	noun	noun person	adjective	adverb

7. Find collocations with the following words in the text:

- homework

- rubbish

- to be proven

- to control

- definition

- lies

- age

8. Compose sentences using the collocations from exercise 7.

9. HOMEWORK:

- Write an essay “Modern teenagers are more unbearable than the ones of the previous generation”

- Write sentences in Russian which will contain the following expressions (they will be translated into English by your groupmates in the next lesson (they should be written on separate pieces of paper):

- to be unbearable

- to be immature

- to get impatient with sb

- to be disorganised

- to be irresponsible

- to be dishonest

- to be insensitive towards sb

- to be unreasonable

- to be unreliable

Закрепление материала на следующем уроке:

10. Which negative prefixes can be used with the following words:

		bearable
		patient
		reasonable
		organised
		sensitive
		responsible
		mature
		reliable
		honest

11. In what situations do teenagers find themselves when they are:

- unbearable

- immature

- impatient with sb

- disorganised

- irresponsible

- dishonest

- insensitive towards sb

- unreasonable

- unreliable

12. Разделить учащихся на группы по 3 человека, попросить сбросить все листочки с предложениями на русском в общую кучу, перемешать, по очереди вытягивают и переводят с использованием коллокаций.

13. Конкурс среди учащихся: разделить по парам и попросить составить диалог, употребив максимальное количество прилагательных с отрицательными приставками. Выигрывает пара, ПРАВИЛЬНО употребившая бОльшее количество таких слов.

Ответы для коллег:

1. disorganised, dishonest

2. 1, 9 – D, F

2, 5 – G, H

3 – I

4, 6, 7 – A, C, E

8 – B

3. Свои ответы

4. - adjective/negative

- adjective/negative

- adverb/positive

- noun/plural

- adjective/positive

- adjective/negative

IMPATIENT

UNBEARABLE

SCIENTIFICALLY

JUDGEMENTS

INTENTIONAL

INSENSITIVE

verb	noun	noun person	adjective	adverb
-	patience	patient	(im)patient	(im)patiently
-	science	scientist	scientific	scientifically
	Sense sensibility	-	(in)sensitive (in)sensible	(in)sensitively (in)sensibly
judge	judgement	judge	judicial	judicially
intend	intention	-	intentional	intentionally

7. – hand in homework

- to take the rubbish out

- to be scientifically proven

- to control judgements and emotions

- by definition

- to tell lies

- to go away with age

8. Свои варианты.

9. Свои варианты.

10. unbearable

impatient

unreasonable

disorganised

insensitive

irresponsible

immature

unreliable

dishonest

11. Свои ответы.

12. Переводы студентов.

13. Даем 7 минут на подготовку, слушаем, считаем количество ПРАВИЛЬНО употребленных выражений, поздравляем победителей. Юху!

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