Зачетное задание по английскому языку в 10 классе «What is hot with the young generation»

Зачетное задание по английскому языку 10 класс «What is hot with the young generation?»

Чтение текста. Прочитайте текст соблюдая правила чтения и знаки препинания.

Many subcultures have interests different from those of the mainstream culture. A particular cultural grouping is a way for young people to express their identity. By the mid-60s, teenagers had begun to form distinct cultural groupings. Most young people in Britain follow some kind of youth culture: rocker, hacker, raver, skinhead, hippies, Goth, punk...A subculture is a way of life. It isn’t a fan club, it’s a real life. It seems to them that the parents are always saying: No! That everything about them: their hair, their music, clothes, the way they talk, grown-ups consider their dreams bad. Often young people do something not because they want to do it. They do things because everybody around does. A subculture is group with a distinct style and identity, fashion, style and music. Different subcultures have their own beliefs, values, fashions…

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Identity- личность, идентичность

Subculture- субкультура
Aggressive- агрессивный
Violent- насильственный , жестокий
To rebel, to protest- протестовать
To try out- пробовать
To conform to - подчиняться
To reject- отвергать, отказывать
Liberal- либеральный

выразить себя - to express themselves

похвастаться - to show off

выразить свою принадлежность к определенной субкультуре - to identify with a particular subculture

знать кто они- to know who they are

попробовать всё - to try out all sort of options

отвергать всё - to reject everything

выразить протест против родителей - to protest against the parents

показать, что они против общества - to rebel against the society

изменить мир к лучшему - to change the world to the best

to dress in a shocking way- одеваться шокирующе

brightly coloured hair – ярко окрашенные волосы

drug users- люди, употребляющие наркотики

don`t conform to society`s standards – не придерживаться общественных стандартов

lifestyle – стиль жизни

wizards – волшебники

3.Задание на чтение и перевод

READING.

You are going to read a magazine article about Teenage Cults. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-H for each part (1-6) of the article. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. (Соединить текст с заголовком)

Teenagers want to show how different they are from their parents and, perhaps more importantly, their older brothers and sisters. If the last fashion had long hair and wide trousers, then the next one will have short hair and narrow trousers. There seems to be a lot of truth in this.

Because of films, records, television and radio, teenagers are aware of what their contemporaries are doing all around the English-speaking world. Almost as soon as there were hippies in San Francisco, we had them too. A problem with this theory is that the time has to be right for a style to be adopted. The main influence on teenagers remains their friends.

Teenagers imitate the people they look up to, chiefly film stars and pop performers. When David Bowie used eye shadow, so did many of his male fans. However, this only succeeds if the pop star is in tune with the way youth culture is already going.

Many developments in teenage culture were possible only because of new technology. Electric guitars plus amplification meant that you could have pop groups and pop festivals. The transistor radio made pop music inevitable.

This theory suggests that the nature of a youth cult is determined by the drugs that it takes. Speed (amphetamine) equals aggression and energy - think of punks and skinheads. Pot (cannabis);equals relaxation and mysticism - think of hippies. Even ordinary society has its drugs such as alcohol and nicotine. But maybe the style came before the drug.

Youth culture happened because commerce understood that teenagers had money to spend and worked out ways of making them buy more records, clothes and concert tickets. This does not account for cults that were anti-consumerist, like the punks and hippies.

This is a sophisticated left-wing theory. Youth cults assert the solidarity of young people who are victimised by society. Skinheads take aspects of working-class culture to-an extreme. They almost enjoy people looking down on them. There is no simple explanation. My own research points to these general observations. Firstly, cults don't arrive fully formed, flourish and thenjiie; they are constantly changing-and their message evolving. Secondly, teenagers only join a cult if it feels right, but most kids want to be something and cults give them something to be.