"This world demands the qualities of youth: not a

time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the

will, a quality of imagination,

a predominance of courage over timidity, of

the appetite for adventure over the

life of ease." Robert

KennedyThe project was made by students of 9 D form under the leadership of T.A. Shpak

The interchanged world termsThe interchanged world terms ‘Youth’ = "adolescent", teenager", "young person“.

Youth generally refers to a time of life that is neither childhood nor adulthood, but rather somewhere in-between.

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The majority of the Lyceum pupils prefer to spend their free time walking and talking with friends, working on a computer, watching TV and reading.

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Their parents treat these activities in a different way but most don’t protest or forbid.

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E xtra schoo l activ itiesNot many pupils have any after school activities but those who do attend sport, language, musical and art schools or take extra lessons.

Most teenagers consider the modern youth as kind, responsive and positive or just ordinary people but some find their behavior immoral or aggressive.

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Surprisingly the Lyceum pupils don’t join any subcultures although the latter are very popular today among adolescents.

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They certainly listen to alternative music and prefer unusual things but largely don’t make idols of anybody.

Today teenagers widely use TV and Computer in their life. Using these resources allows to learn something new, useful and interesting.

More and more teenagers are beginning to suffer from overuse of television and computer. They spend too much time on these and result in problems.

Internet addiction disorder (IAD) Internet overuseproblematic computer use pathological computer use is excessive computer use that interferes with daily life.

Nowadays young people are crazy about everything extraordinary, odd, hot and out of limits.They don’t care CULTURE, they choose SUBCULTURE!

PUNK, EMO, GOTH,PUNK, EMO, GOTH, GRAFFITY, RAP,GRAFFITY, RAP,RUSTA, SKINHEAD, RUSTA, SKINHEAD, STRAIGHT EDGE, STRAIGHT EDGE, TRANS, RAVE, TRANS, RAVE, HIPPY, REGGAE,HIPPY, REGGAE,FURRY etc.FURRY etc.

The punk subculture is based around punk rock. Punk first emerged from the rock music scene in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1970s.

It is centered around listening to recordings or live concerts, loud, aggressive genre of rock music called punk rock (usually shortened to punk).

Emo is a music fashion movement which requires:

heavy eye-liner overly tight jeansenjoylarge cockdye their hair black(don't forget to skip the shower)a long fringe (to help warp their vision of the world)

Goth, a contemporary subculture, found in many countries, began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The goth subculture has associated tastes in music, aesthetics, and fashion. Gothic music combines a number of different styles.mystical sound and outlook.

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Among the most popular likes of modern adolescents is undoubtedly sport. These days young people prefer something hot, speedy, high in adrenalin ordemonstrating their skills and tricks (like in socks,for example). Thus, in addition to well-known classical sports, they choose such extreme kinds of sport as BMX, skateboarding, snowboarding, sky-surfing, racing and others.

SocksSocks originated in America in 70 years. also called Hack the Sack the first ball for the Socks was stuffed with beansseveral directions: Footbag Net or Volley Sock( when the ball falls through the mesh)Footbag Freestyle - the most difficult and beautiful line Here, players must invent an infinite number of new movements.

This is both sport and art.

SkateboardingSkateboarding - one of the most common types of extreme sports. First appeared in California in 1950years. Then it was a normal board, without a bend, later it got wheels. Skate surfers were eager to experience sensations such as riding waves. Surfers fastened the attachment ofclips to the boards and were inanticipation of a wave. In fact, all that was needed to keep balance on the board to pass obstacles, making different tricks.

BMX (Modified Bike X-treme)- an extreme sports entertainment.Abbreviation BMX originally meant BikeMotocross. Stunt DirtStunt Dirt is a ride on a special bicycle with jumping, speed of arrival at the site with slides, obstacles and jumps. BMX is freestyle with a variety of tricks.

BMX is sport and entertainment for the acrobatic urban adolescents.

Skysurfing - a parachute jump with ski, snowboard where tricks are performed in free fall.

has appeared relatively recently has already gained great popularity very complex and requires considerable preparation jumps from the height of about 4000 m team of skysurfers consists of 2 people: an operator and an athlete a 50-second-clip is assessed Judges evaluate the artistic quality of performance of tricks, operator skills.

CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION

‘The youth’ can be called mostly people from 15 to 25-29 years old.

It is a period of their physical and moral maturity.

Despite being busy they are keen on plenty of various things: computer, sport, music, friends, television.

The Lyceum pupils are not an exception. They are fond of the similar interests.

Few of them belong to any modern youth subcultures.

They have nearly no idols to look like.

All in all, they seem to be kind, friendly and positive thinking!

hhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth Youthhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_addiction_disorder Internet оverusehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_addiction Computer addiction

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