Проблемы современных подростков на английском. Топик по английскому «Проблемы современных подростков» (Teenage problems)

It has never been easy to be a teenager. I believe that the teenage period is the most important one in our life. It is the time when we receive our education and try to learn the right from the wrong.

Teenage hormones make young people more sensitive and emotional than usual. They feel quite miserable, hurt and rejected when they split up with their friends. Young boys and girls often suffer from depressions. Moreover, they constantly have serious arguments with their overprotective parents who try to control everything their children do and do not allow everything they want. Strong parents’ pressure to do well in school can also be really annoying for teens.

Teens often face a lot of problems in their relations with parents, teachers and friends. Sometimes they are teased or bullied by their elder brothers or other peers. They also need to be free and independent, so they can feel ashamed while going shopping with their mothers, for example. Some young people get jealous when their friends own a more expensive smart-phone model or a more fashionable piece of clothes.

There are young people who join teenage groups or gangs in order to express their individuality, to increase their self-esteem and to feel accepted and secure. However some subcultures are quite aggressive and opposed to the normal standards in our society. In many gangs teens start using drugs or alcoholic drinks and committing crimes.

One of the main problems among teenage girls is their worry about the body image. They compare themselves with other beautiful and fit girls in their class or even some celebrities and they strongly wish to look like them. This unhealthy self-esteem leads to serious eating disorders and such illnesses as anorexia and bulimia. Girls refuse to eat food in order to change their body shape and to become skinny and then gradually they can’t eat at all.

Most teenagers don’t know how to cope with their problems because they don’t feel like sharing their emotions and discussing them with their parents or friends. Young people are usually afraid of disapproval and misunderstanding. In this case it may be useful to consult a professional psychologist who can offer some good advice and probably give a helping hand.

Перевод

Быть подростком никогда не было легко. Полагаю, что подростковый период является наиболее важным в нашей жизни. Это время, когда мы получаем образование и пытаемся отличить плохое от хорошего.

Подростковые гормоны делают молодежь более чувствительной и эмоциональной, чем обычно. Они чувствуют себя довольно несчастными, обиженными и отвергнутыми, если расстаются с друзьями. Молодые парни и девушки часто страдают от депрессий. Более того, у них постоянно происходят серьезные ссоры с чрезмерно опекающими родителями, пытающимися контролировать все, чем занимаются их дети и не позволяющими делать, что им хочется. Сильное родительское давление на успехи в школе также очень раздражает подростков.

Подростки часто сталкиваются со множеством проблем в отношениях с родителями, учителями и друзьями. Иногда их дразнят или травят старшие братья или другие сверстники. Им также необходимо быть свободными и независимыми, поэтому им становится стыдно выходить за покупками вместе с матерью, к примеру. Некоторые молодые люди ревностно относятся к друзьям, имеющим более дорогую модель смартфона или более модную одежду.

Существует молодежь, вступающая в подростковые группы или банды для того, чтобы выразить свою индивидуальность, повысить самооценку и почувствовать себя признанным и защищенным. Однако некоторые неформальные группы довольно агрессивны и противопоставляют себя нормам нашего общества. Во многих группировках подростки начинают принимать наркотики или алкогольные напитки и совершают преступления.

Одной из основных проблем среди девушек-подростков является их беспокойство по поводу своей внешности. Они сравнивают себя с другими красивыми и стройными девушками в классе или даже со знаменитостями и очень хотят стать похожими на них. Эта нездоровая самооценка приводит к серьезным нарушениям в питании и таким заболеваниям, как анорексия и булимия. Девушки отказываются принимать пищу для того, что изменить свои формы и стать худыми и затем, постепенно, они вообще не могут есть.

Большинство подростков не знают, как справиться со своими проблемами, поскольку им не хочется делиться своими чувствами и обсуждать их с родителями или друзьями. Молодежь обычно боится осуждения и непонимания. В этом случае, возможно будет полезной консультация профессионального психолога, который сможет предложить хороший совет и протянуть руку помощи.

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Introduction

We live in the world of problems. Life is impossible without them. There are a lot of problems that people have to face and try to cope with. But I would like to tell about youth problems. There are a lot of them that a young person has to face when he or she stops being a child.

Adults think that it is very easy to be a teenager, but this is not true. Nowadays there are a lot of different things that young people want to try. They are cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and it is not so easy to manage them, especially for teenagers. Most teenagers try such things because their friends do and if they do not, they are not considered to be cool. Some young people take drugs or drink alcohol because they are bored and they have nothing to do. Some of them do because their life is terrible and they can’t manage it.

To my mind, the most dangerous of youth problems are drug and alcohol addiction, AIDS and a frightening increase of the suicides among young people. Teenagers are often involved in different crimes: robbery, vandalism, drug sale.

Besides, there are many other problems: poor relationship with parents, problems of friendship and love, getting education and choosing a career, youth unemployment and the problem of earning money and so on.

We can name youth problems endlessly. But let’s see some of their reasons and try to give advice how to solve them.

Youth Problems

§1. Smoking

You’d have to be living on Mars not to know that smoking is dangerous. Yet statistics show that young people today smoke more, not less. Why? One answer is that many teens think it cool. Another is the great sums of money invested in advertising cigarettes. Tobacco companies spend millions to encourage the young to start, or to continue, smoking.

The statistics is such:

Over 90% of all smokers start before they are 18.

The average age for a new smoker is 13.

Smoking kills about 3 million people every year.

A smoker is 22 times more likely to die of lung cancer than a non-smoker.

Smoking causes heart attacks, bronchitis, asthma and other diseases.

Nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Seven out of 10 smokers want to quit, but can’t. Nicotine isn’t the only bad thing in cigarettes, there are over 400 chemicals in one cigarette that are known to be very destructive.

§2. Drug Addiction

Drug addiction is the plague of our time. So many young people are addicted to drugs. The danger of drugs is a vital problem in our society. Drug addicts ruin their health and degrade morally. With every day they need more and more drugs. To get the stuff and the money for it they don’t stop at any crime. They begin to steal, to rob and to burgle. In a state of ecstasy they may ever kill people. And sometimes even for a hundred rubles. It’s awful, but explainable.

Drugs ruin human organs and affect the brain very badly, even dramatically. Drugmen degrade mentally and don’t live long. Usually they die of an overdose. So drug taking is a sure way to an early grave. Why is there such a terrible disease in our society at present?

There are different causes of it: the distortion of the eternal conceptions of right and wrong, low cultural standards, social injustice. But I’m sure the root cause is some young people’s inability to cope with life difficulties. That’s why drug-users and alcoholics want to go away from reality and to get a state of euphoria. They don’t realize that intoxicants ruin their lives and they turn into desperate good-for-nothing creatures.

Sometimes teens may be involved in a bad company and they become drug addicts. So young people must have strong will-power and common sense not to give in to pals’ negative influence. To have a drug-addict son or daughter is a tragedy for the family. Parents suffer most of all.

To my mind, it’s wrong to give drug-users up. On the contrary, we all should give them a helping hand, because without it they are inevitably lost to society. I think drug-abuse isn’t an individual problem, it’s a social vice.

§3. Teenagers’ Extreme is Committing Suicides

As far as I know, in recent decades the number of suicidal teens has increased. Young people can’t bear the difficulties and pressures of modern life and choose the fatal end.

Here are some circumstances of committing suicides: broken families, indifference of parents, the availability of drugs and alcohol and sometimes psychical disorders. Drug and alcohol abuse is tragically destructive. They ruin youngsters’ health, produce insensibility, apathy, frustration. All human values lose their significance. Naturally, it may lead to crime and suicide.

To prevent the trouble parents and teachers must be more attentive and well-wishing to children, to their souls and hearts, as total negligence and excessive severity throw the young in the abyss.

§4. AIDS Cases among the Young

AIDS is Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. It is caused by a virus that weakens people so much that they become sick. The name of the virus is HIV – Human Immunodeficiency Virus. AIDS is a global epidemic. It spreads disastrously. No cure has been found as yet.

Drug-users belong to the so-called high risk-group for catching AIDS. They help to spread AIDS through dirty syringes. Moreover, AIDS spreads through sexual contact, from an infected mother to her child.

So AIDS is a world problem. That’s why associations for combating AIDS have been founded in many countries. But I consider defence against the plague of the twentieth century depends on all of us. We must take responsibility for our actions, for our health, for our life, because after all, AIDS doesn’t care about our dreams for the future.

§5. Generation Gap

Many people say that generation gap is an eternal problem and most parents have to deal with it when their children become teenagers. Is it really so? Let’s see the problem from the parents’ and teenagers’ point of view.

As for parents, many of them are sure that there is a period when their children do not pay attention to what adults say. Children want to do only what they like. They often do not obey their parents, begin to study worse, spend more time out-of-doors, and make friends with boys and girls who influence them badly. They are fond of awful music and wear terrible clothes they consider fashionable. They don’t follow their parents’ advice.

As far as teenagers say, their parents do not want to understand them. They don’t approve of youth’s clothes and dislike their tastes in music. Parents want their children to follow their model of life and forget that every generation is different from another and has its own values. They do not notice that a teenager is not a child and has his own ideas of future life.

I think it is possible to solve this problem. Of course, parents have better life experience and do not want their children to repeat their own mistakes, but both parents and their children should understand and respect each other. Parents should have confidence in their children and a lot of patience. Children should not forget that parents are the people who will always support them.

To sum up, in families where there is comprehension and love between their members there is no generation gap.

§6. The Problems of Friendship and the First Love

Young people have many problems of emotional and personal character which may look silly and unimportant in the eyes of grown-ups but appear to be extremely important to the young. They are the problems of friendship and loneliness, as well as the problem of the first love.

Youth is the time when a person is vulnerable to opinions of different people, especially to the opinions of his peer group. So for many youngsters it is very difficult to choose true friends. The proverb says: “A friend in need is a friend indeed”. I agree with it, that’s why I try to make friends with persons whom I can trust and rely on. To my mind, faithful friends are always ready to help you in difficult situations and never betray you.

Another problem is the problem of love and dating. Some parents are democratic in this respect, and allow their children considerable freedom in their relations with the opposite sex. Others are overprotective and forbid their teenage children to go out with people they like. In my opinion, it can result in many psychological problems as overanxious parents prevent their children from getting an experience of communicating with representatives of the opposite sex, and this can lead to serious family problems later.

§7. Choosing a Career and Youth Unemployment

Probably one of the most vital problems of young generation is choosing a career. It is really difficult and important as well. One thing that makes it so difficult is the responsibility you have to take on. It is widely known that your future life depends on the choice made early in life when your personal experience is not so great. Sometimes you may even be not quite certain about the field of knowledgeyou are interested in. The second reason is that to make this choice you have to get some idea of the labour market and job opportunities. Third, there are parents who usually have their own idea of your future career and, in many cases, try to make their child choose the career path they prefer.

Moreover, unemployment is one of the most fundamental problems faced by young people. Nowadays young generation has certain needs and aspirations. But because of the universal downturn in the economy combined with technology when particular jobs and skills are made obsolete, many youths today are experiencing problems in obtaining jobs. Unemployment means financial worries, frustration and discouragement. To solve the problem of unemployment, young people should strive for higher education. Then they would be qualified for skilled labour required by industrialized society.

Conclusion

Thus, youth is a period of life which is of utmost importance in the life of man. First, man’s entire life is rooted in his early years. The morals and beliefs, range of interests, education, health and habits are all laid in childhood and youth, the personality is shaped. Second, youth is a time when a person is trying to find his place in the world. This period is usually associated with problems: young people ‘struggle’ to fit themselves into society. Difficult decisions and adjustments face young people in today’s society.

In my opinion, young people have even more problems than adults. Most of them want to enjoy life, be independent and be taken seriously. Teenagers often want to express their individuality or earn money but they don’t know how to do it. Some of them start to rebel against the society and reject everything. It causes violence and cruelty. There are many young people who have drug addiction and drinking problems. Personally, I think it happens because they get depressed and upset when they can’t solve their problems.

To my mind, adults must help teenagers to overcome difficulties. Parents shouldn’t be too busy and indifferent to their children’s problems. Grown-ups should create the atmosphere of love, care, understanding and respect in their families.

At the same time, teenagers have to decide what they want to have in future. Being young, you should think of what you can do to change the world to the best.

All people have problems . Some people have a lot of problems , others have one or two. And no matter how old you are, you will still face difficulties in your life. We can solve some problems but some problems are very hard to solve.

There are a lot of teenagers in our country. A teenager is a person from thirteen to nineteen years of age. And young people here face as many difficulties as grown-up people do.

There are problems, which are common for all young people. These are spending your free time, choosing a good friend, how to deal with your parents and the classmates, finding your place in this world, first love and relations with beloved, choosing where to study after finishing school, alcohol and drugs.

I’m fourteen so I belong to the group of Russian teenagers . One of the most important problems is “a generation gap” - the problem of fathers and sons. Teens usually want to be independent and show this to our parents. And this is kind of depressing when our parents try to control everything we do. Our parents usually don’t understand the clothes that we wear and the music that we listen to. We have different tastes. For example, when I go to the shop with my mom she likes these jeans but I like those ones. She pays and this is often difficult to convince her that this is really what I need. My parents want me to become a doctor as they are skilled teachers but I have a taste for economics, and my dream is to be an accountant. But they say they know better. They often treat us like small children. And this is rather difficult to start listening to each other and understanding each other. Some teens even begin drinking alcohol or smoking just to show that they are grown-ups. That is really stupid, I must say. I don’t like smoking. You must have to be a grown-up inside and a cigarette or a bottle of beer won’t help here. This won’t help you look cool. These bad habits cause health problems in future (for girls especially).

It is a problem to get a good education as well. It is expensive to get a good education nowadays. I think it is difficult to learn a subject well, for example, without additional classes. And you can’t enter a university without good knowledge.

As for the problem of friendship, I always remember a good proverb, "A friend in need is a friend indeed." I like this one because it shows what a true friend must be. I like honest people. And, of course, I want to have a friend who will always listen to me and understand me. I want him or her to support me in difficult situations. If a teen has bad relations with others he tries to find a group to follow for example - goths, emos and others. They try piercing and tattoos.

One of the most serious problems nowadays is taking drugs and AIDS (the disease when the immune system of your body stops working).

The problem of free time is also very important. Where to go, what to do in free time. Every teen must find a hobby or just go in for sports. Not just wander in the street without an aim. We must not forget that it’s good to go to museums, theatres, cinemas and parks even if it is not popular.

There is also a problem of having extra (pocket) money to go out with friends, to make presents to your friends, to buy clothes that you really like. So youth has to earn money - wash cars, sell or deliver newspapers, help old people or work as waiters or waitresses

We have some problems but we are sure that we solve them properly. We make mistakes but only those who do nothing make no mistakes. I think that the young people in other countries have such problems too. The best way to solve them is to be yourself and be responsible for your life.

Перевод некоторых слов:

no matter - не имеет значения, to face difficulties - сталкиваться со сложностями, to solve problems - решать проблемы, a grown-up - взрослый, relations - отношения, to spend free time - проводить свободное время, “a generation gap” - проблема отцов и детей, Independent - независимый, tastes - вкусы, to convince - убеждать, to treat - обращаться, to cause - вызывать, bad habits - плохие привычки, to look cool - выглядеть здорово, nowadays - в наши дни, additional classes - дополнительные занятия, knowledge - знания, a good proverb - хорошая поговорка, a true friend - настоящий друг, honest - честный, to support - поддерживать, a teen - тинейджэр, goths - готы (субкультура), emos - эмо (субкультура), piercing - пирсинг, tattoos - татуировки, drugs - наркотики, AIDS - СПИД, Disease - болезнь, the immune system - иммунная система, to wander - слоняться, responsible - ответственный.

Ох уж эти подростковые мысли! То, что занимает головы многих, оно же все на стенах. Вы замечали, что никто не пишет там цитаты классиков? Видели на заборе хотя бы одну цитату Твена или Хемингуэя? Самое безобидное из того, что есть на заборах или стенах — это «Sarah, I will love you forever» и «Sarah is a b*tch». Как же трудно в 15 лет «собрать мозги в пучок», особенно когда все вокруг только и делают, что их «полощут». Поговорим о проблемах у подростков.

Essay on Main teenage problems

Hi, everyone! My name is Ann and I’m 15. It seems to me that I’m a typical teenager with typical teenage problems. It’s not a secret that teenagers face many problems and their life is influenced by their parents, friends, living conditions, education and so on. Furthermore, they are not strong enough to resist and overcome these problems. I’m absolutely convinced that this period of life is the most difficult and I’ll try to explain why.

First of all, I feel dependent on my parents all the time. I have to coordinate all my actions with their wishes and their "you may" or "you may not". They think that my life and my problems are not important and don’t even try to understand or support me. They just moralize and try to show they know everything better. It only leads to everyday quarrels and nothing else.

Secondly, I feel ugly and uncertain. It’s a real problem to find friends and to become a part of society. If I want to be with a company I have to follow the rules of their behavior thinking about my every action or phrase. If I’m not like them, I’m a white crow and it means no friends, no talks, and consequently no entertainment. To prove they are cool enough many teenagers get alcohol or drugs addicted or do other dangerous things and I don"t need that.

Moreover, the school causes me a lot of problems too. All teachers are angry and unsympathetic. They just give us tasks and want the results. They don’t treat us as individuals with our own feelings and thoughts. I feel a huge pressure from my parents and teachers. To study hard at school and have good marks. They are interested only in that but not in my knowledge or development. Therefore, it’s a common thing for all teenagers to cheat on exams and tests.

From my point of view, all these problems are connected with a lack of attention and understanding. All teenagers want to be heard and treated as adults. It’s important for us to trust the people around and stay ourselves.

Сочинение на тему Основные проблемы подростков

Всем привет! Меня зовут Аня и мне 15 лет. Мне кажется, что я типичный подросток, с моими типичными подростковыми проблемами. Ни для кого не секрет, что подростки сталкиваются со многими проблемами, и их жизнь находится под влиянием родителей, друзей, условий жизни, образования и многого другого. Более того, они не настолько сильны, чтобы противостоять и преодолевать эти проблемы. Я абсолютно уверена, что этот период жизни — самый сложный, и я постараюсь объяснить почему.

Прежде всего, я чувствую постоянную зависимость от моих родителей. Я должна согласовывать все свои действия с их желаниями и их «можно» или «нельзя». Они думают, что моя жизнь и мои проблемы не важны и даже не пытаются понять или поддержать меня. Они только читают морали и пытаются показывать, что они знают все лучше. Это приводит только к ежедневным ссорам и ни к чему другому.

Во-вторых, я чувствую себя уродливой и неуверенной. Найти друзей и стать частью общества — это настоящая проблема. Если я хочу быть частью компании, я должна следовать правилам их поведения, думая о каждом моем действии или фразе. Если я не такая как они — я — белая ворона, а это означает ни друзей, ни разговоров, а следовательно, никаких развлечений. Чтобы доказать, что они достаточно крутые, многие подростки становятся зависимыми от алкоголя и наркотиков или делают другие опасные вещи, а мне это не нужно.

Более того, школа тоже причиняет мне много проблем. Все учителя — злые и черствые. Они только дают нам задания и требуют результатов. Они не относятся к нам как к личностям, у которых есть свои собственные чувства и мысли. Я чувствую огромное давление со стороны моих родителей и учителей. Учится прилежно и получать хорошие оценки. Их интересует только это, а не мои знания или развитие. Поэтому, это обычное дело для многих подростков списывать на экзаменах и тестах.

С моей точки зрения, все эти проблемы объединены недостатком внимания и понимания. Все подростки хотят, чтобы их услышали и относились к ним как к взрослым. Для нас важно верить людям вокруг и оставаться самими собой.

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Our age is so strange. We know that we are on the way to become adults. But this way is so hard. And we teenagers usually stay alone with our thoughts, because nobody even we ourselves understand what is happening around us. There are a lot of problems – that is what we know exactly. And problems are everywhere and we cannot expect why and where they come from. This is very difficult time though some people think that it is the best time. And what is more it"s hard to stay quite and calm. Every young generation has more complicated problems than previous. And maybe nowadays teenagers have more problems then other generations. And this difference awakes misunderstandings with parents. Sometimes it seems that our parents are too tiresome and dull in their demands. And also they often interfere into our life. Parents always say that we are lazy and can"t do anything except rest. Moreover they give not much money, and we hardly can find a job because in our age we cannot be responsible for money of firm or do some kinds of job. And there is a great problem: parents also always doubt in our independence. Our age – is time of making a choice what we will be in future, what we want to do and how. So we have to choose the university to have better education and future profession. If you have a good education you"ll be always perfect at you profession and of coarse you"ll earn more money, make your life better. And the best way to prepare is to study better at school. The school ages are also very difficult. We do a lot of homework and even have no time to go for a walk or do whatever we want. Another problem in school – marks. And we try to do our best to have good marks. But our parents never like them. And for boys there is such problem like conscription. And nowadays it" Also nowadays a problem of drugs is very actual. A lot of teenagers have drug addiction. And sometimes they use drugs not because of that they want. And it often leads to bad ends. Moreover, you may have problems with health. Emotional problems for young people can be far more difficult than financial ones. The typical teenager problem is that "nobody understands me". Youth is also the time to meet your first love. It is of coarse wonderful but as it is widely known that first love often has an unhappy end. This also increases young people"s problems. Even friends cannot always stay friends when young people begin to understand themselves a little bit better old friends sometimes just grow apart. And sometimes you have problems in communicating with each other and you even stay alone. So as you see it"s very difficult to be young nowadays as indeed it always was. But you only can be young ones and some wonderful things can happen to you only when you"re young. So it"s better to enjoy youth while it lasts.