Project Growing pains The difficulties that teenagers

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Growing pains The difficulties that teenagers face as they grow to adults

Home alone Daniel: They never even gave me a chance to defend myself. I hate them! Daniel: Anyhow, they didn’t trust me. They don’t deserve an explanation. Daniel: Why didn’t they ask me what happened instead of shouting at me?

Skimming Read the article and find out what different kinds of growing pains are talked about in it. Kinds of growing pains: 1. physical changes 2. psychological changes 3. how to fit in society

True or false • As teenagers grow, they grow taller but their voices don’t change. F • Besides these physical changes, there come many psychological changes. T • Because of many psychological changes, many boys become risktakers while girls often don’t want F someone--anyone--to talk to. • The adolescents may want and need their parents’ love very much, but feel distant. T

Divide the text into three parts and get the main idea of each part Part 1: Para ____ to ____ (many teenagers feel 1 2 lonely going _________ and are _______through many changes. These changes are part of adolescence _______) physical 3 5 Part 2: Para ___ to____ (_____ changes psychological and _______ changes happen inside confused teenagers. They become _____ and want to know how to ___ fit in ___ society. ) Part 3: Para ___ (growing pains do not ____long last ____) 6

Task-based comprehension: Physical It is normal for them to become ____ changes _____ with the changing world confused both inside and outside them. _______of changes risk-takers Many boys become_____--they limits Psycho- want to find the ______of their own logical and the world around them, but they can’t make good _____. Girls try choices changes to____their feelings. handle As teenagers get older, they struggle to be independent ______. They have many Social changes needs, but they have difficulty balancing these needs, so they often question who they are and how they fit ____ in society.

1. From the first paragraph, we can learn that__________. A. Life is under control, always going at a certain speed. B. Life is out of control, running too fast. C. Life is always under control, neither running too fast nor too slowly. D. Life is not always going as it has been expected, sometimes out of control.

2. What are the teenagers confused with? A. The difficulty they have fitting in society. B. How to deal with their feelings C. How to improve study. D. All kinds of changes.

3. How do the teenagers feel about their parents’ love and their need to be free? A. They find it hard to achieve a balance between them. B. They are disappointed with their parents’ behavior C. They need but hate their parents’ love. D. They choose to talk with their parents.

4. The passage is written to tell readers_________. A. how to get along with teenagers. B. about teenagers growing pains in adolescence. C. how to behave as teenagers D. how to deal with teenagers’ troubles

Language points

1. Many teenagers feel lonely, as if no one understands them and the changes they are going through. (L 1) ①lonely alone adj. 寂寞的；偏僻的，荒凉的; adj. 单独的；独自的 adv. 独自地；单独地 alone可以作形容词，但是只做表语，不用做定语。 He was alone in the house. He came alonely既可以作定语，也可以作表语。 a lonely place She lives alone, but she doesn't feel lonely.

While the old man lives on the____ island ____, he doesn’t feel_____. A. alone, lonely B. lonely, alone, lonely C. lonely, alone D. alone, lonely, alone ②as if= as though(好像，好似) It sounds as if someone is knocking at the door. She closed her eyes as though she was tired.

1. Many teenagers feel lonely, as if no one understands them and the changes they are going through. (L 1) ①划线部分是_____从句。 定语 ②go through 经历（不愉快的事） I couldn’t ____ throughanother experience like go _______ that. 仔细阅读（检查、解释） went _______ I _____ through the whole house looking for my purse.

2. It is common for teenagers to feel lonely and misunderstood. (L 9) 形式主语 it为_____. 真正的主语是： to feel lonely and misunderstood ________________。 It was a struggle for me to remember all the faces and names. misunderstand-misunderstood mis-前缀。如：mislead误导；misinform 误传；misuse误用；滥用。

3. These feelings can be thought of as growing pains--- the difficulties that teenagers face as they grow to adults. (L 10) 把…看做；把…视作 ①think of… as…_________； （regard… as; consider…as; treat…as; see … as; refer to … as; ） I think of this place as my home. 定语 ②that引导的是______从句；

4. As teenagers grow, it is normal for them to become confused with the changing world both inside and outside of them. (L 12) ① As the economy develops, this town becomes more and more beautiful. ②become/be confused with 对…混淆迷惑 confuse A and/ with B（将…）混淆, 混同 People often confuse me and my twin sister. confusion n.

5. Along with these physical changes, there come many psychological changes. (L 16) ①along with与…一道；除了… A along with B 的谓语动词的单复数由A的单复 数决定。 ① The teacher along with students _____(be) excited. ② The students along with the teacher _____ (have) learned to drive a car.

6. In the social world, as teenagers get older, they struggle to depend on themselves. (L 22) ①social _____(n. ) society ②struggle to do sth. 奋力努力挣扎做… It’s so noisy at the table that I had to struggle _____. A. to hear B. to be heard C. hear D. to hearing

7. Since teenagers have difficulty balancing these needs, they often question who they are and how they fit in society. (L 24) ① have difficulty (in) doing sth. 做某事有困难 With a local guide leading, we had no difficulty _____the place where Shakespeare was born. A. to find B. found C. finding D. to finding ②question vt. question sb. on sth. questions My father often _____ me on _____ I what learn at school.

8. In the end everything turns out OK---the teenager becomes a healthy adult and this period of change and …(L 27) turn out (to be)结果是；证明是（无被动，无进 行） 刚刚在街上我和他吵架的那个男子后来证明是我 的新老板。 The man _____ I quarreled in the street with whom just now______ ___ my new boss. turned out to be