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Dealing with emotions is very importance to your health. It’s all very

well to say that we must deal with these feelings, but how do we go about

doing so, and what exactly is “dealing with our emotions”?

ACCEPT YOUR EMOTIONS

Dealing with our feelings is facing, accepting and working through them. We will always have emotions, so we have to learn to deal with them. If repressed, they will find a way to come out as in depression, anxieties, panic, eating disorders to name but a few.

A lot of the time, people do not want to feel what they are feeling. They may be ashamed or guilty of these feelings, or they just do not

like a certain emotion. For example, you start to like your best friend’s

girl / boyfriend. You don’t know how it happened, but you’re now stuck

in a predicament where you are totally infatuated with your best friend’s

girl / boyfriend. Automatically, you may try to suppress these feelings. If you ignore them, maybe they’ll go away, right? WRONG! The chances

are small that your feelings will just leave you; you’ll most probably be

feeling terrible about yourself, plus, a buildup of pent up emotions leads to stress!

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Confront those emotions that you’re trying to ignore. Here’s what you might do: keep a diary in which you write down your feelings. This diary

is a way for you to think about the stuff that you’re made of! By writing

down and analyzing your feelings, you become aware of the real reason why you’re feeling the way you are, and the emotion becomes less painful. Some questions you could ask yourself when you’re writing in your diary are:

What am I feeling? When did it start?

What does it make me want to do?

What were the triggers for this emotion? What pictures come to mind as I feel it?

When else have I felt it? Is it familiar or something new?

What would I like to say to the person / event / myself? Say it out loud —

talk to your dog.

Take the above example, you might discover that it is not really your friend’s girl / boyfriend that you like so much, it’s the idea behind it (having a girl / boyfriend). You may learn that you’re lonely, and you just want someone. By writing in the diary, you find all this out and solve the problem because you no longer like your best friend’s girl / boy- friend, and have something else to focus on, namely, finding yourself a girl / boyfriend!

Or you can talk to someone. Many people go to other people to help them deal with their emotions; these ‘other people’ could be your school’s guid- ance counselor, favourite teacher, family relative, psychologist or psycho- therapist.

3. speaking

Do ex. 1, p. 215.

4. Reading and speaking

Do ex. 2, p. 215.

5. speaking and writing

Discuss the following questions, complete the table and then write true sentences about your relations.

1)

2)

3)

4)

5)

6)

You

What causes generation gaps to form?

How might today’s generation gaps be different from those of your pa- rents’ or even your grandparents’?

How do generation gaps change / evolve for individuals over time?

Can you see a generation gap between yourself and the younger genera- tion?

What is it concerning?

Do you feel your parents don’t understand you because of a genera- tion gap?

to solve conflicts

Both of you

He She They

Have

Has

Want smb

Demand(s)

to make the right choices

to find balance in your relations to keep your opinions open

to cultivate positive emotions to establish priorities

6. summary

1) What are the most common needs of youth nowadays?

2) What is it like to be a teenager in your society?

3) Would you rather be a child, teenager or an adult? Why?

4) What are the advantages / disadvantages of being a child / a teen- ager / an adult?

7. Homework

Write a composition using the questions above.

Lesson 76

YoUth ProBleMS

Цілі:вдосконалювати навички усного мовлення й читання; розвивати куль- туру спілкування й мовленнєву реакцію учнів; виховувати толерантне став- лення до інших і загальну культуру учнів.

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Дата

1. Warm-up

Procedure

Do teenagers in your country have problems with drugs or alcohol? What is the difference between a habit and an addiction? (with a habit

you are in control of your choices, with an addiction you are not in control

of your choices)

2. Reading and writing

Work in pairs

Read the article and make some notes as for youth problems in Britain. Then compare it with the situation in Ukraine. Are there any differences and similarities?

School, lessons, games, clubs, homework. A bell rings. But one day young boys and girls will be at school for the last time. And then they are

confronted with difficulties. They must make a decision: to enter a univer-

sity or try to find a job.

In Britain life used to be fun for teenagers. They have money to spend,

and free time to spend it in. But for many young people life is harder now. Jobs are difficult to find. There is not so much money around. Things are

more expensive, and it’s hard to find a place to live. Teachers say that stu-

dents work harder than they used to. They are less interested in politics and more interested in passing exams. They know that good exam results may get them better jobs.

Three-quarters of young people do more or less what their parents did.

They do their best at school, find some kind of work in the end, and get

marry in their early twenties. They get on well with their parents, and en- joy family life. They eat fish and chips, watch football on TV, go to the pub.

Most young people worry more about money than their parents did twenty

years ago. They try to spend less and to save more.

For some, the answer to unemployment is to leave home and look for

work in one of Britain’s cities. Every day hundreds of young people arrive

in London from other parts of Britain, looking for jobs. Some find work

and stay. Others don’t find it and go home again, or join the army of unem-

ployed in London.

One of the main problems of young people is drugs. This is a relatively

new problem but it is becoming more and more dangerous. Million young

people today are using drugs, and most of them will die. Usually they want

just to try it, then again and again… and after year may be two years they

will die. It is true. Because there are no medicine to help you. That’s why never do it, if you do — it goes bad, very bad.

People of almost every age are susceptible to this pernicious disease but

it hits the youth the hardest. Its name is unemployment. The percentage of unemployed youth in the total number of the jobless is high. In many deve- loping countries the situation is more serious. Unless the economic situa- tion in the world changes, youth unemployment will mount.

There are many youth organisations in Britain, which unite young men

on different principles. There are some informal organisations, for exam- ple: skinheads, hippies, panks and so on. Now there exists the problem of misunderstanding between different youth groups.

They also face the problem how to spend their free time. They can do it in different ways. Some of teenagers spend their free time in different night clubs. Other young people spend their free time in the streets.