Street Children.

Illustrative dialogues.

b) - How do you find this newspaper?

- Very objective and truthful.

c) -I have subscribed to the magazine " English for everyone". I think it will help me to learn the language.

- I think that it's a bad idea.

- What's the use of doing it?

- This magazine is for those people who know English very well.

Work in pairs.

- One of you friend suggests subscribing to a magazine for lovers of music.

- The other one either accepts or turns down the suggestion.

VIII. Approve or disapprove of these ideas about a college newspaper or magazine:

- It's reasonable to devote a college newspaper to only one topic, to sports or to hobbies.

- We must put a lot of pictures and photographs into it.

- The editorial should always be serious.

- The college newspaper must reflect only our college activities.

IX. There are a lot of special magazines for teenagers. Give your opinion about them? Do they reflect the young people's hopes and worries, their leisure and education, their likes and dislikes?

Look at the list of the topics one of such magazines cover:

- What makes you happy?

- Don’t be shy!

- Spring things: hair, clothes, make up.

- I just wanted to die.

- Improve your social skills.

- Get fit fast.

- How to overcome shines.

Do you think these problems are worth discussing. Why or why not?

X. Read the article about such a great problem as street children. Write an article to the newspaper on one of the youth problems.

There are about 100 mln. young people in the world who call the streets their home. And their number is rising by the hundreds of thousands each year. In Africa they are orphans of civil war or victims of famine, in Latin America and Asia they are victims of poverty. In the countries of the Western world they runaways.

Street children have to look after themselves trying to earn money by odd jobs.

The two most difficult cities in the world right now are Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Bangkok, Thailand. Many of the street children are beaten, raped and sold for sex. They can't turn to the police for help because in some Latin American countries street children are rounded up, imprisoned or killed, just to tidy up the streets for an important foreign visitor.

A lot of teenagers run from home every year. What are the reasons of it? There is usually a lack of understanding on both sides – parents and children – and problems in communication.

But there is no "typical" runaway. Many come from homes broken by divorce or homes where there is an alcoholic parent. Some run away from parents who beat them.

It's very frightening to be homeless because teenagers don’t know where to go, what to eat. They often run into trouble because the world is a very dangerous place. The longer a runaway is away, the more likely he or she is to get into trouble.

There are four main means of survival in the streets: begging, stealing, prostitution and drug dealing. Sometimes it leads to suicide.

There are some organizations which try to protect street children. But unfortunately the number of runaways is rising and the kids are getting younger.

- Say what feelings this article arouses in you.

- What is the main message of this article?

- What is done in Ukraine to help homeless children?

- Exchange your ideas about the main reasons teenagers run away from home, with the others in the group.

- Find out which of your groupmates share your opinions, and whose ideas are different from yours.

- Is the problem of homeless children reflected in the press nowadays?

- Do you think this problem is worth discussing on the pages of youth magazines?

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