Growing Pains

Writing a report on growing pains

Lead-in

• Do you love your parents? • Do you think you show respect for your parents？

• Do you sometimes quarrel with your parents? • Can you describe an experience with your parents that was not pleasant?

What kinds of the growing pains have you experienced?

• often quarrel with your parents because they forbid listening to foreign music / chatting online / …;

• they are busy with their work and spend little time with you;

• have too much homework and no time to relax;

• sometimes feel lonely and feel that no one else can understand you;

• have to depend on your parents and can’t make your own choices;

• ...

If you have any problems, what will you do to solve them?

• phone to ask for help

• surf the internet

• talk to others

• watch TV shows for teenagers

• write letters to magazines or newspapers

Now listen to the article “Growing pains” for the first time. While listening, try to find out the following phrases and translate them into Chinese.

【自主探究】请写出下列词组的中文意思。1.go through________ 2.go out of control________ 3. deal with _______ 4. turn out _________5. become confused with__________ 6. physical changes 7. psychological changes__________ 8. make choices________ 9. risk-taker ________ 10. depend on_________11. desire independence __________ 12. be traded for _______

1.经历2.失去控制3.对付；处理4.结果是；后来是5. 对…迷惑不解6.身理变化7.心理变化8.做出选择9.冒险者10.依靠；取决于11.渴望独立12.交换，转变成

Read the article again and judge the following sentences True or False.

1.Adolescence is the time of life between child and adult.2.Teenagers go through both physical and psychological changes during adolescence.

3.Most teenagers can make a good choice in their behavior.4.Most teenagers are in great need of independence.5.Growing pains will last long.

T

T

FT

F

Physical changes

Their body develops in many ways including growing taller and voices getting (1)___________

(2)_____

changes

They have the feeling of (3)_________, as if nobody could understand them.They become (4) _________ with the changing world both inside and outside of them. Many boys like taking (5)_________ to find their own limits and the limits of the world around them, but sometimes they are unable to make good choices in their behavior.Girls need someone to talk to while (6)__________ with their strong feelings.They struggle to (7)__________themselves, and meanwhile they need their parents’ love and want to be a member of the group.

CommentsGrowing pains are a common part of (8)_________, which adults have already gone (9)___________ . But the pains don’t last (10)_________ and everything turns OK in the end.

【合作探究】：Task 1 根据课本 38 的内容完成下列表格（每空限填 3个词以内）

deeper

Psychological

loneliness

confused

risks

dealing

depend on

adolescencethrough

long

完成Workbook P95 B1 和 B2的练习

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