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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
  • 77
  • 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
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