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Solutions. Personal story. Conclusion.
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Solutions.
So what is to be done in order to improve the situation?
It seems obvious that prevention of teenage pregnancies lies in better and more open sex education, as demonstrated by Sweden and the Netherlands, and easy availability and awareness of contraception. Although contraceptive advice and services are available in Britain, teenagers are still scared of seeking help and advice in fear of blame for their sexual behaviour.
There have also been steps to improve the life of exiting teenage mothers through creating support schools with a crè che, where school-age mothers can combine school education with looking after their babies. This gives the young mothers a chance to make their way in the world and not depend on state benefits
Personal story.
16 year-old Jane Taylor tells her story: “Before I got pregnant I hated school and did not do much work there, concentrating on my social life instead. Every night I would go out drinking and clubbing. Since the birth of my son, Tom, my life has changed. I have realized that having a baby means a lot of responsibility and I now want to do well at school and maybe go to college or university afterwards. However, it is not easy to do with a baby, so I am lucky to have a local support school where I can attend lessons, get medical help and discuss baby problems in the company of other girls in my situation”.
Conclusion.
Although all’s well that ends well, as in Jane’s story, isn’t having a baby at an early age a too high price for learning to be responsible and mature? Is it wrong to have an abortion? There are no right or wrong answers to these questions, so you need to find the answers yourself – what do you think?
In Florida, USA, single mothers are obliged by law to give the newspapers the most intimate details of their past if they want to give the baby up for adoption. The young women must give their name, height, weight and eye colour, the names of their sexual partners and the estimated date of conception. This is done to give the baby’s father, who may or may not know about the baby, a chance to claim responsibility for the child before it can be adopted.
В каких параграфах говорится о:
a) prevention of teenage pregnancies;
b) the story of 16 year – old Jane Taylor.
Согласитесь или не согласитесь с утверждениями. Начните со следующих формул вежливости:
I am afraid that’s wrong; I think you are mistaken; on the contrary, I don’t think so; according to the story.
– In Victorian Britain any discussion of sex was prohibited.
– Since the 19th century Britain has seen “sexual revolution”
– In the seventies British women were mostly housewives.
– The UK has the highest proportion of teenage pregnancies in West Europe.
– The dramatic situation with teenage pregnancies in the UK is due to the lack of general and sex education.
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– All pregnant teenage girls give their babies for adoption.
– The prevention of teenage pregnancies lies in prohibition of sex education.
Переведите на английский язык:
отдать ребёнка на усыновление
скудное пособие
улучшить ситуацию
совет (советы)
сексуальное поведение
вспомогательные школы
матери школьного возраста
общественная жизнь
ответственность
посещать уроки
слишком высокая цена
правильные и неправильные ответы на вопросы
усыновить
Вставьте в предложения слова из текста:
– Any discussion of sex was prohibited and considered ….
– In the nineties nobody was surprised at the increasing number of sexual images in ….
– The UK has the highest proportion of teenage pregnancies in ….
– The dramatic situation with teenage pregnancies in the UK is largely due to the lack of ….
– Being a teenage mother is not ….
– Some pregnant teenage girls decide to give their babies up for ….
– Keeping the baby means living on ….
– What is to be done in order to improve …?
– Teenagers are still scared of seeking help in fear of blame for their ….
– Having a baby means a lot of ….
Текст 4
LET’S SPEAK ON DATING…
In the US dating starts early. In some families 13- and 14-year-old boys and girl go out on dates. When young teenagers go on dates they often go with a group, and usually a group has a chaperon. But older teenagers usually don’t have a chaperon on their dates.
When a third person arranges a date between two strangers, it is blind date. Some people send information about themselves to a computer dating bureau, which matches them with blind dates.
In the past it was customary for a boy to pay for a date. Sometimes today a girl pays for herself. This is called going dutch. Frequently a boy asks a girl for a date, but more and more often girls are asking boys for dates.
Ответьте на вопросы:
1. How old are Russian boys and girls when they begin dating?
2. Have you ever had a blind date?
3. What do you think of this custom?
4. The qualities I would like in a date are…
5. I prefer to date someone who is … (my age/slightly younger/much older/slightly older/much younger)
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