Unit 15 Youth culture

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Unit 15 Youth culture

• Warming-up
• Speaking
• listening

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• A short video of Hip-Hop

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• Are you interested in it? Why or why not?

Who do you think like it best?
Most young people
It is one aspect of youth culture.
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Which activities and interests do most young
people like?
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What others do you know?
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• Nowadays people often talk about the global
  teenager. What do you think teenagers in China
  have in common with those in other countries?

All self-confident, all like to follow the
fashion, all want risk and excitement
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Group work

• Design a poster or bring a picture showing what
  life is like for a modern teenagers today. You
  can choose to include one aspect of youth culture
  or several.

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speaking

Show your poster or pictures in class and give
a short presentation about it. Explain your
design , content and why do young people like
these things?
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Discussion

• What is youth culture?
• Is there a bad side to youth culture?

All aspects that interest modern youth all over
the world.
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My poster
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Pre-listening

• Does he need help? Who will help him?
• Danny is a student who is interested in
  volunteering to help children . What types of
  work could he do?

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Listening to the tape and underline the projects
that you hear in the tape. Which project is Danny
most interested in?

• Big brothers and sisters
• 1 help 1 scheme
• football team
• Youth leagues Go Westscheme Summer School

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Listen to the tape again and choose the best
answers.

• 1). What should the volunteers of the project
  Big brothers and sistersdo?
• A. football coaching
• B. classroom assistant helping the children
  with exercises and activities
• C. helping with homework playing chatting and
  giving advice
• 2). Whom is the second project for?
• A. childern whose parents have died
• B. childern with a criminal background
• C. childern who have difficulty in learning and
  cannot keep up in school
• 3). When is the third project held?
• A. 2 or 3 hours on Saturday afternoon
• B. twice a week in the evening
• C. full-time for 2-3 weeks in the summer
  vacation

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3. Listen and answer the following question

• What reasons does he give for not wanting to work
  on the other projects

Big brother and sisters---- he is busy studying
for exams in the evenings.
Football team----- he think his football skills
are not good enough.
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Discussion

• If you were Danny, which project would you like
  to choose? Why?

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Homework

• Try to collect more pictures and information
  about youth culture.
• Preview the next lessonreading.