Unit 3: YOUTH

 

YOUTH is the period of life when you are young especially the time between being a child and adult.

 

Childhood	Teenagers	Adulthood
0-12 years old	13- 19 years old	Adult

 

 

I-                   Temptations :

Tempt: to try, to persuade or attract somebody to do something especially something that is wrong or silly or bad (foolish, not thoughtful).

 

Young people are tempted because they are influenced by their friends or they imitate them.

 

Here are some kinds of temptations:

 

-          Smoking

-          Drug addiction

-          Running away

-          Gambling

-          Going to the night-club

-          Neglecting school

-          Abortion

-          Prostitution

-          Robbery

 

What should be done to avoid temptations?

-          Young people should practise sports

-          Young people should avoid bad friends

-          Parents should educate  their children

 

II-                Smoking :

 

Young people smoke because they have problems or they imitate their friends or they are misled by their parents.

 

Here are the bad effects of smoking:

-          Less intelligent at school

-          Bad colour of lips and teeth

-          Lung cancer

-          Tuberculosis /Coughing

-          Chest infection

-          Hair loss

-          Hearing loss

-          Above all, smokers pollute the air around them so that people become passive smokers who inhale the cigarettes’ fumes without smoking.

-          It makes us feeldizzy

-          Fatal disease/ illness

-          It is a waste of money.

 

III-             Drug addiction

Drug addict: someone who takes drugs frequently, being unable to stop.

Drug addiction: Drug consumption.

 

Here are the bad effects of drug addiction:

-          Depression and lethargy

-          Risk of becoming unconscious and even of dying

-          Mad

-          Skin infection

-          Damage of the nervous system

-          Hepatitis

-          Pneumonia

-          It may cause terrible hangover the next day

VOCABULARY

-Dizzy = having the feelling that everything is going round or spinning and that you are going to fall. (Syn. Giddy)

-To feel dizzy=to feel giddy

-Lethargy = the feeling of being very tired / not having energy.

-Smoking= act of taking cigarettes

-Hangover= a headache and a feeling of sickness that you wake up with if have drunk too much alcohol the night before.

-To abuse= to ignore

-Painful= hurtful= dangerous

-To destroy= to damage

-To imitate= to copy

-Passive smoker= non-smokers

-Fatal= mortal

-To be cigarettes→addict→habits

 

 

 

Teacher Developer : ANDRIANAIVOALISOA Holinirina Dafinarindra