Teens' problems

My students have been preparing a goup work on a chosen teen's problem.

Here in this site you can find very interesting information about some common teens' problems.

Relative clauses rephrasing

Below you can find some links so that you can pratise your relative clauses.

http://www.xtec.es/~ogodoy/sac/rephrasing/relclex2.htm


http://www.xtec.es/~ogodoy/sac/rephrasing/relclex3c.htm

http://www.xtec.es/~ogodoy/sac/rephrasing/relclex1c.htm

http://lucalasalle.blogspot.com/2009/02/relative-pronouns-rephrasing.html

Teenage years

A lesson I prepared about the topic: Young people

1. I’ve brought to school some quotations of famous people who wrote about being young. Then I asked my students to comment on them.

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it”. William Sommerset Maugham

“I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”   James M. Barrie

“Youth comes but once in a lifetime”      Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Youth has no age.”Pablo Picasso

2. After this last quotation, we saw the video clip: Young forever by Jay-Z and Mr. Hudson and spoke about the activities young people were involved in.

3. Then we listened to the song again and completed the lyrics, gap filling exercise.

4. At this time I started preparing my students for a text we were about to read next. This text dealt with the advantages and difficulties of being a teenager these days

5. Before reading the text, I asked my students about teens’ hopes. These were my students' answers:

• Going to university and taking a degree;
• Having a successful career;
• Having a nice family;
• Having enough money to have a comfortable life;
• Being rich and famous;
• Being happy;
• Finding the love of one’s life;
• Travelling a lot;
• Doing something unique and outstanding.

Then I asked them about their worries:

• Being unable to have a fulfilling career;
• Being unemployed;
• Not having enough money to pay one’s bills;
• Dying young;
• Being rejected;
• Not having a fulfilling relationship;
• Being alone;
• Having no real friends;
• Being unable to fulfill one's dreams;


6. Finally, we read the text: Do parents know their kids?

Expressing wishes

We have been studying the grammar topic: expressing wishes and regrets in English.

We have already done many different exercises during lessons, but I have found some more on the web.

Try this: http://www.better-english.com/grammar/wish2.htm
Try this: http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/wish/menu.php

Another one: http://www.adrformacion.com/udsimg/ingles4/2/Ingles4L2-3a.htm

An interesting video about Portugal!

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXw5fMIYGqg

Portugal is in a great financial crisis and we need the help of all the European Union countries. It seems Finnland is still unsure whether to help Portugal; consequently a video about Portugal was made to show how great Portugal is.

I liked the video so much that I decided to share it with you.

Young people in a global era

We've started a new topic: Young people in a global era.


Firstly, we did a brainstorming exercise. My students presented all the words they associated to: young people, such as:

- going out
- friends
- trying new things
- relationships
- love and dating
- changes in humour
- hormones
- acne
- body changes
- teen pregancy
- addictions: drugs, alcohol, smoking, computer games, etc.
- body image
- eating disorders
- bullying
- depression
- generation gap
- peer pressure
- school pressure
- uncertainty about the future
- desire for freedom

As we can see above, there are good and bad things about being a teenager.
Teenage years can be the best or the worst time of people's lives.
Teens' family, friends and teachers play a very important role during this time because they can help teens overcome the difficulties they may face.

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