Words and phrases connected with the theme of the unit

Writing

Present your group report to the class.

To hold the discussion make use of all the texts including the supplementary texts.

General discussion

1. Discuss in groups of 3 – 4 students.

· causes of drug abuse among:

a) adults (health problems, frustration of the career, unemployment, family problems, desire to make money, loss of moral values);

b) teenagers (peer pressure, immaturity, curiosity, parents’ permissiveness, lack of parental love and care).

· Consequences of drug abuse: health disorders, spreading of venereal and infectious diseases, family disintegration, divorces, abandoned children, street children, demoralization and degradation of a personality, learning problems, crimes, disabled children, abandoned elderly people, different conflicts, employment problems.

· Measures to reduce/eradicate the incidence of drug abuse (to promote peoples’ awareness about the danger and consequences of drug abuse, to develop the balanced national policies and strategies on drugs, to start moral re-armament campaigns worldwide, to ban advertising alcohol, cigarettes, drugs of any sort on TV and in other mass media, to enhance the role of the family in society).

1. Write an article to a newspaper expressing your concern about the present-time morals and also offer some suggestions on moral re-armament.

2. Write a letter to Mr. Alexander, who wrote the article “Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays,” expressing your greement or disagreement with the author.

3. Imagine you are the head of a Charity Fund. Write a report about the charity activities your fund is performing.

abandon sth v
academic performance n
adapt v
addict n, v
addicted adj
adultery n
advise v	~ sb on sth
advocate n
AIDS
alienation n
antisocial adj	~ behaviour, ~ actions
appeal v, n
appeasement n	policy of ~
asset n	a priceless ~
asylum-seeker n
availability n
barbiturate n	be dependent on ~
battery n
bear fruit
bedridden adj	~ people
befriend v
bereave v	~ed people
bereavement n	to do ~ counselling
bitterness n
boredom n
break down n
break out of v
buck up v
cannabis n
carer n
charity n
charitable adj
child-abuse n
communal pad
commute v
coke-fiend n
decline n, v
deport v	to be ~ed
detain v
detainee n

deterrent adj, n	~ effect on sth
disconnection n
down-drag n	~ of base instincts
dreamy adj	~ state
drug n	hard/soft ~s ~ abuse, ~ trafficking, ~ dealer, ~ carrier, ~ policies, ~ route, ~ addiction, recreational ~s, lucrative ~s, illicit ~s, ~ shipments, ~ rehabilitation
embroil v
empower v
entice v
enforcement n	~ programs, law ~ agencies/officials
enslave v
entitle v
enthuse about sth v
envision v
fend off v
fraud n
fray n
frustration n
greed n
gulp v	~ breakfast
hardy adj	~ creatures
hazardous adj	health ~
highlight v
HIV	~ positive
housebound adj	~ people
illicit adj	~drugs
incentive n
incidence n	HIV ~, ~ of drug abuse
interdict v, n
interdiction n
laissez-faire adj, n
law-enforcement n	~ officials
lethal adj
long v	~ for sth
lucre n
lust v, n	~ for sth
mandatory adj
massacre n

mentor n	an adult ~
mug v
nudge n, v	~ into doing sth, ~ sb away from drugs
outcry n
penalize v
peril n	~s of narcotics
policy-maker
prevention n	~ efforts, ~ measures
recession n
toddler n
violence n
voluntary adj	~ work
volunteer n
volunteerism n

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