Problems of youth

Практические цели: овладение новым лексическим материалом, развитие навыков разговорной речи на основе задании, проведение дискуссии по предложенной теме.

Young people's problems

Everybody says your youth is probably the best time of your life, that being young means romance, love, new discov­eries and so on. But it is also the most difficult time because you have to make some very important decisions which will influence all your future life.

Things are not easy nowadays even for adults, but for teenagers who have to find their own place in society, it's very difficult. It is necessary not only to adapt to your society, but also to be confident about your position in five, ten or twenty years' time.

Every girl or boy leaving secondary school should choose an institution of higher education or, if he or she doesn't want to study any more, choose a job straight way. In planning your future you have to think about the possibility of finding a job after finishing your education.

But even if you are studying, you need some money of your own. Your parents probably will provide you with home, food and necessary clothes, but you will have your own tastes, and your parents won't pay for them. To pay for extra clothes, tapes, books, things necessary for your hobbies, you have to work, and in our country it is very difficult for a teenager to find a job without any qualification. You're lucky if you can do something that others can't; for exam­ple, if you're good at Maths or English, you can give lessons.

Emotional problems for young people can be far more difficult than financial ones. The typical teenager problem is that «nobody understands me». The parents often continue to treat their teenage children as if they were infant, when they probably consider themselves to be grown up.

Youth is also the time to meet your first love. It is, of course, wonderful, but, as it is widely known that first love often has an unhappy end, this also increases young people's problems.

Even friends cannot always stay friends. When young peo­ple begin to understand themselves a little bit better, old friends sometimes just grow apart.