What are the characteristics of a subculture? How do representatives of different subcultures express their individuality? What makes young people choose a subculture? What subcultures are popular in Russia? What are similarities and differences between subcultures in Russia and other countries? Is a subculture a real life for a teenager? Why do people feel against members of different subcultures? Why are the young violent? What subcultures existed in the time of your parents’ youth?
| popular music styles; Woodstock festival; youth culture in Russia, Britain and the USA; subcultures: Mod, Rocker, Hippie, Punk, Hacker, Goth, Skinhead, Raver, Biker, Teddy Boy, Bonehead, Chelsea girl and their characteristic features
| I. About your wish to choose a subculture; representatives of different subcultures and their characteristic features; youth organizations; teen violence and reasons for it; unwillingness to do something and reasons not to do something II. Functions Giving opinion; comparing; asking for information; saying you approve; saying you do not approve; asking if someone approves; saying you are unwilling to do something; giving reasons III. Grammar Structures For revision: Infinitive in the function of adverbial modifier of purpose; degrees of comparison of adjectives; auxiliary verbs; word formation: suffixes-ity, -ion, -ist, -ism, -er, -ship, -ing, -ous New: Conjunction as and preposition like IV. Lexical Items New: 23
| I. About characteristic features of music styles; characteristic features of subcultures; attitude towards the members of different subcultures II. Writing and Thinking Skills Presenting the personal opinion; note taking
| I. About youth organizations; music styles; youth clubs (from “Newsweek” and guides); subcultures; danger of drugs (from “The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak” by Adrian Macfarlane and Ann McPherson); gang riots (from “A Pair of Jesus-boots” by Sylvia Sherry); Teddy Boys’ features from “Buddy’s Song” by Nigel Hinton) II. Reading and Thinking Skills Anticipating; predicting; reading for specific information / for the main idea / for detail; guessing the meaning of the words through different types of relations between the word and the context; understanding the author’s attitude; detecting mood; summarizing; understanding references; understanding the sequence of events III. Grammar Reading Structures For revision: Elliptic constructions; word formation: suffixes-ity, -ion, -ist, -ism, -er, -ship IV. Lexical Items New: 54
| I. Opinions about choosing a subculture; attitudes towards representatives of subcultures; definition of a subculture; evolution of subcultures II. Listening and Thinking Skills Listening for specific information/for the main idea; inferring main ideas (not directly stated)
| 1. Evolution of youth groups in Russia. 2. A subculture I’d like to create.
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