1. Young people’s concerns
Unit -2- Period -2-
Young people’s concerns
Ghada Jamal Shabana
Rula Farouq Al Farr’a

2. Objectives: Students are expected to:
Skim the text to get the general ideas.
Scan the text to get the specific details, then answer the questions.

3. Skim the text for general ideas

4. Read the paragraph quickly, then answer the questions:

5. Annette Coleman, director of the Green Earth organisation, said yesterday that she was “disappointed , but not surprised” at the fall in the number of young people concerned about the environment. It’s not that the environmental concerns are less urgent than before- quite the opposite in fact. It’s just after decades of publicity on topics like climate change, so little has changed. A lot of people get the feeling that there is nothing they can do about it, and young people in particular tend to be impatient. Of course, the other thing is that in times of the economic difficulty, people are more likely to focus on worries that are more immediate and have an impact on their daily lives

6. Answer the questions: Choose the best title for the paragraph:
1. Why has the environment fallen to the seventh greatest worry?
2. Why was Annette Coleman disappointed?
3. Why are young people impatient?
Find the main ideas

7. 1. people get the feeling that there is nothing they can do.
The reasons of the fall at the number of young people concerned about the environment.
3. People focus on worries that are more immediate and have an impact on their daily lives.
2. young people are impatient.

8. Scan the text for specific details

9. Decide whether the sentences are true or false:
1. ( ) Environment concerns are not as urgent as before.
2. ( ) Publicity has changed the concerns for environment positively.
3. ( ) People worry about the financial concerns more than the environmental ones.
4. ( ) Immediate concerns are on the top of the poll. F
More urgent T T T

10. Find a word from the text which means:
1. sad because of an unexpected result ….……………..
2. Not wanting to wait ……………………….
disappointed
impatient

11. Say what these pronouns refer to
people
We (line 36): …………………….…..
she (line 28): …………………….…..
their (line 45): …………………….…..
Annette Coleman
people

12. Good bye