Lesson 2 Children and colour - Self-Expression

1. Study the following words:

Self-affirmation [self @WfB ' meiGn] – самоутверждение

pal [pWl] – приятель, товарищ

to distinguish [di ' stiEgwiG] – Видеть или проводить различие, различать, распознавать: I can hardly ~ between the two brothers; I can hardly ~ the two brothers one from the other - я с трудом различаю этих двух братьев

persuasion [pB ' sweiFn]- Убеждение, мнение; разг. Группа – men ~

nacreous [ ' neikriBs] - перламутровый

glitter [ ' glitB] - v блестеть, сверкать

n Яркий блеск, сверкание

2. Read the following word combinations and remember them:

to meet expectations – отвечать ожиданиямt

to express emotions – выражать эмоции

to express oneself – самовыражаться

to do silly things – делать глупости

3. Write the three forms of the following irregular verbs:

choose, know, learn, mean, arise, draw, meet, may, teach, understand, rise, give, let, grow, buy, go, make, forget, become.

4. Write the comparative and the superlative of the following adjectives:

happy, excited, sad, frightened, angry, red, good, bad, practical, cool, silly, colourful, intensive, young, old, different, fashionable.

5. Write the derivatives for the following words:

express, confirm, achieve, accept, colour, influence, decide, prefer, fashion.

6. Guess the meaning of the following international words:

pragmatic, maximalism, emotions, technique, emotions, technique, result, period, practical, classical.

7. Write the plural of the following words:

child, adult, grown-up, colour, mood, man, woman, product, sport, team, year, kid, parent, feeling, wind.

8. Give the Russian equivalents to the following words and word combinations:

self-confident, to express themselves, silly things, to draw, expectations, to confirm, mood, happy, excited, sad, frightened, angry, a fairy tale, to distinguish feelings, to achieve, anger, joy, loneliness, persuasion, to revolt, self-affirmation, to be influenced, unacceptable, driving force, colour activity, to insist on, safe field, artificial colours, cool, coloured food, chewing gum, worm, colour preferences, independence, kid.

9. Change the following word combinations using the Possessive case:

expectations of parents, products for girls, clothes of teenagers, parents of teenagers, feelings of kids, party for kids, life of children, love of teenagers, mood of a child, feeling of grown-ups.

10. Read the following text and get ready to discuss it with your group mates:

Colours also help children to express themselves. They like to know rules, but also they like doing silly things. Children, who are allowed to do draw on their own, to choose some coloured items for their room, to choose clothes, are more self-confident and more able to express themselves. Remember, the colour they'll choose may not meet your expectations at all.

Colour is a very useful means to express certain emotions, especially those hard to express.

Many researches confirm the connection between colour and mood. It's been noticed long ago, that having listened to a fairy tale with the happy end, children get drawing with yellow pencil. And after some sad story they tend to dark brown colours.

What's your child mood? Is he or she happy, excited, sad, frightened or angry? Psychotherapists teach children to distinguish feelings, call them, discuss them in a positive way, using colour. This technique is called 'Colour your life' the best results are achieved with children above six, who know the names of colours and understand their own feelings.

A psychologist gives a child a sheet of paper and a set of crayons of basic colours: yellow, red, blue, green, violet, grey, black and so on. A kid is asked to choose a colour for the named feeling. There are following combinations arising often: red - anger, orange - joy, grey - loneliness. Than a kid is given a blank sheet of paper and asked to draw his or her own feelings. For example if he is sometimes happy, sometimes sad then he or she may use different colours, connected with different moods. It's very interesting to watch what colours a kid chooses, how intensive he uses them and in order they appear on the paper.

Whatever colour activity you choose for your kid, you'd better let him or her choose colours. If you insist on certain colour your child may revolt. And if you suggest a wrong colour the situation may turn even worse (by the way, if you want to avoid difficulties with colours at some kids' party, with both girls and boys invited, choose neutral concerning gender colours, such as red, dark violet or blue-green).

Colour is a wonderful safe field where children develop their self-affirmation. As children grow up their colour preferences turn more and more important. These way children try to avoid pressure, influence from the outside and protect their independence. In the period from 5 to 10 years old, when school pals and friends influence a kids' life more and more, children expand their colour horizon. Some of them, especially girls, are very proud of their clothes of different colours. These children like drawing with different colours and ask to buy them a set of crayons of 48 or 64 colours. The others, especially boys, expand their colour preferences by including colours of different sports or favourite sports teams. Children like coloured foods disliked by kids of opposite sex and adults. Of course, and it's hard for an adult to understand kids' love to blue worms from chewing gum!

Both boys and girls at this age are seriously influenced by mass media. The colours of the favourite cartoons or TV programs characters become their favourite colours. Children especially like artificial colours widespread nowadays. These colours may reflect light, glitter, they may be metallic or nacreous. Children also like toys changing their colour under certain angle.

When a kid turns into a teenager, his or her interest towards new inexperienced things is expanding and colour preferences are not an exception. Words like 'practical', 'classical' or 'popular' doesn't go with teenagers. Most of all they want to have things, which seem absolutely unacceptable for adults. Blue nail polish? Great! Brown lipstick? Cool!

Teenagers are real colour leaders. Their passion to new unusual things is driving force of the market. For the companies, producing teenagers' clothes, especially girls' products, assortment domination is the matter of survival. They have to offer different colours, including the most unexpected, for their products.

Of course, those teenager products not always meet teenagers' parents’ expectations. Teenager daughters often argue with their mothers about clothes and make up, and though boys usually don't tell parents what to wear, they are likely to have decided the car of what colour they want to buy. And this colour is surely the ultra-fashionable.

If you live in a real world, your children become mature. And most of them forget about their colour radicalism and become more pragmatic. And sometimes they even sorry about their youth maximalism.

11. Answer the following questions to the text:

1. Do colours really help children to express themselves?

2. What children become more self-confident and more able to express themselves?

3. What is a very useful means to express emotions which are hard to express?

4. Is there any connection between colour and mood?

5. Which psychological technique is used to teach children to distinguish feelings?

6. What can happen if parents insist on certain colours for their children?

7. How do children try to avoid pressure, influence from the outside and protect their independence?

8. What colours do children from 5 to 10 years old prefer?

9. When do children become colour leaders?

10. How can parents help their children to become mature?

12. Say whether the following statements are false or true:

1. Colours help children to express themselves.

2. The colour that children choose always meets their parents’ expectations.

3. Colour is a very useful mean to express emotions those are hard to express.

4. There is no connection between colour and mood.

5. Children choose only bright colours when they are happy.

6. The psychological technique that helps adults to distinguish their mood with the help of colours is called “Color your life”.

7. The best results are achieved with children before six, because they don’t know the names of the colours.

8. Whatever colour activity you choose for your kid, you'd better let him or her choose colours.

9. Colour is a wonderful safe field where children develop their self-affirmation

10. As children grow up their colour preferences turn less and less important.

11. When school pals and friends influence a kids' life more and more they can’t expend their colour horizon.

12. In the period from 5 to 10 years old children expand their colour horizon.

13. Children don’t like artificial colours widespread nowadays.

14. Teenagers are real colour leaders.

13. Finish the following sentences in accordance with the text:

1. Children, who are allowed to do draw on their own …

2. The colour your children choose may…

3. Colour is a very useful means …

4. Many researches confirm the connection …

5. With the help of the technique called 'Colour your life' psychotherapists teach children …

6. Whatever colour activity you choose for your kid …

7. Colour is a wonderful safe field …

8. Children like coloured foods …

9. The colours of the favourite cartoons or TV programs characters become…

10. When a kid turns into a teenager …

11. Teenagers are real …

12. Most of the children forget about their colour radicalism …

14. Reread the text divide it into parts and find the main thought of each part. Make a plan of the text. Retell it in accordance with the plan.

15. Imagine that you are a psychotherapist who works with children. Explain to the parents of your patients the 'Colour your life' technique.

16. Work in pairs and prove that

a) it is possible to express emotions with the help of colours;

b) colour is a wonderful safe field where children develop their self-affirmation;

c) teenagers are real colour leaders;

d) children, who are allowed to do draw on their own, to choose some coloured items for their room, to choose clothes, are more self-confident and more able to express themselves.

17. Work out your own palette to express different feelings.

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