Prime Time 7, Coursebook plus Semester Self-checks

S Unit 4: Adolescence Listening–writing: Teenagers feel more lonely than the older generation (B2) a) Listen to part of a psychology lecture by a university professor. b) Listen again and answer the questions below. • How many young people admitted to feeling lonely most or all of the time compared to people of retirement age? • How do social media influence the relationship skills we build as young people? • What did the survey reveal on the amount of close friends young people have? c) You have decided to prepare a short blog post for your school’s weblog. In your blog post you should: summarise the most important information presented in the lecture illustrate the numbers with specific examples discuss possible ways to help young people to cope with the challenges described Write around 250/400 words . Reading–speaking: 15 ways that teenagers drive you insane each and every single day (B2) a) First, read the following posting from an online magazine on parenting. 1  16 3.4 2  I consider myself a bit of an expert in the ways of teenagers. My eldest daughter, Bee, is now 21. She turned 20 just two and a half weeks before my younger daughter turned 13. I had two and half weeks when I wasn’t the mother of a teenager – a tiny respite in what is going to be 14 years of teenagerdom (definitely a word). Trust me, I’ve learned plenty about their habits during this time. And today, I bring you 15 of my favourites – the things that are a real test for my nerves. 1. They are incapable of switching off lights when they leave the room. It’s like they can’t even see that the lights are on. 2. When you point this out, they claim a gnome did it. (True story!) 3. They become fussier eaters than when they were babies. My youngest will actually gag if I put her near a pumpkin. 4. They never drink enough water. “Have you had a drink?” I will ask. “Yes, it’s just there,” will come the reply. It doesn’t count if it’s still in the glass. 5. They refuse to wear coats to school and then complain about the cold. 6. They will wait until you’ve cooked a lasagne to announce that they have become vegetarian. 7. They won’t let you watch your favourite soap operas whenever you want, even though you point out that you pay the TV licence. 8. They say “I’m doing it!” when they are clearly not doing it. 9. They always leave one thing when they do the dishes. 10. Their idea of “tidying up their bedroom” is to put everything somewhere where you can’t see it. 11. When they have a cold, they seem incapable of blowing their noses properly and will sniff until you want to stab someone with a fork. 12. They never pass on letters from school. 13. They don’t like it when you squeeze their cheeks and talk about when they were babies and how adorably squishy they were. 14. They don’t want to watch Disney films at the cinema any more, so you have to go on your own and look like a loser. 15. They look like you, but are younger, prettier and cooler. Damn it. 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 156 Semester self-checks Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv