step by step 3000 第三册Unit 6 Youth Aspirations

Unit 6 Youth Aspirations Part I Tape scripts

Market researchers estimate that the average teenager spends about$82 of their own money a week on clothing, food, and entertainment. But not all kids have time to go shopping. As a matter of fact, the amount of free time that children have has dropped about 16 percent over the last several years. Many call it the over-scheduled syndrome. There's been a real cultural shift in this country in the past few years. It used to be that children could participate in ballet, or gymnastics, or football in a very casual way. Now there's a real emphasis and a real stress on these kids to be experts. The children are expected to become prodigies in whatever extracurricular activity it is that they choose. Is it all necessary if the goal is simply to get into a selective college? Administration officers at Harvard University say, \-third of the students they select are academic or extracurricular prodigies. The rest are quote \and well-grounded. What we're finding is that many parents now are starting to say” enough is enough,\and they're cutting back. We've found parents who are pulling their children out of all of their activities. It's just too much stress on the children, too much time away from homework, time away from sleeping, time away from eating and enough, and a lot of parents now, we’re saying stop!

Tape scripts Vandalism, that is, the senseless destruction of other people’s

property, seems to have become part of modern life, and, at the same time, we have come to accept mugging, in other words, robbery with violence in our streets, as a common danger. It is interesting to note that, during the Second World War when London was blacked out every night, vandalism and mugging were virtually unknown. People walked the streets in complete darkness without fear of being attacked or robbed on their way home. There were, of course, other and more terrible dangers, and obviously petty thieves and criminals were still around. But young people did not bash up a telephone box just for the hell of it, terrorize old ladies or deliberately desecrate public buildings or grounds. Destruction as the result of air raids stared everyone in the face and the danger of renewed bombing was ever-present. Nevertheless there was in a sense full employment. Most people, with the exception of the very young, the old and the sick, were either serving in one of the armed forces, working in factories, or otherwise engaged in helping the war effort. No one needed to be idle and there wasn't much sympathy for those who were. Perhaps it is true to say that in our modern progressive society vandalism and mugging express revolt against idleness, the despair of young people who have no purpose in life and who face unemployment from the moment they leave school. Statistics show that acts of this kind are mostly committed by young people, often teenagers, who seem to have come to the conclusion that society does not want them because they’re poorly

educated, or a different race or color, or, at the very simplest, there is no outlet for their energy and high spirits. Before condemning their behavior, we must realize that, as so-called responsible citizens, we have a lot to answer for. Our society is geared toa living standard which these young people have little hope of achieving unless they are helped to do so. It is our job to make sure that they feel wanted, useful, and necessary to the society they live in. Part II Tape scripts –

What scares me most about my future is not known what I want to door where I am going. - Not having any money. - Not being able to do things I want to do. - Young people are witty, young people are creative. - I think the old ways are possibly changing and the kids who can cope with change are going to be the kids that succeed. - I think they need a hand. I think somebody needs to understand them a bit better. - They seem a lot more open-minded, they don't seem to be able to be led as much today as maybe kids of my age group - the sixties and seventies. - Young people need more than anything an opportunity these days. They need a chance to take on personal challenges. B Tape scripts

The word \came into use in Britain in the 1950s when the young began to invent and adopt their own fashions, magazines, music and style. This was the birth of what we now know as youth culture. It

reached its heyday in the 60s with the advent of .. swinging,’ London bands like the Beatles, the Rolling stones, and of course mini-skirt. Through the 70s there was flower power, hippies, teenyboppers and Punk. The r980s brought the new romantics, dance music - and we also started to think about the future, ecology and all that . . . what about the future where do they see themselves going. How do they feel about living in the Britain of today? Tape scripts –

what scares me most about my future is not knowing what I want to do or where I am going. - Not having any money. - Not being able to do things I want to do . - Young people are witty, young people are creative. - I think the old ways are possibly changing and the kids who can cape with change are going to be the kids that succeed. - I think they need a hand. I think somebody needs to understand them a bit better. The word \invent and adopt their own fashions, magazines, music and style. This was the birth of what we now know as youth culture. It reached its heyday in the 60s with the advent of “Swinging London, “bands like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and of course themini-skirt. Through the 70s there was flower power, hippies, teenyboppers and Punk. The I9B0s brought the new romantics, dance music - and we also started to think about the future, ecology and all that . . . What about the future? Where