Learing objectives:

1. Listen and talk about different life stages.

2. Get familiar with the topic, and prepare for the passage learning.

Questions: 

1) Why are college graduates in the video called a dependent generation and what can account for it?

 2) After watching the video, what is your idea or reflection upon the difficulties and struggles the graduates confront after graduation?

Listen to the interview and discuss the quesions on p5 in the above PPT.

Listen to a short passage concerning adolescent reaction  and fill in the missing information.

       Disillusionment with the parents, however good and adequate they may be both as parents and as1.__________, is to some degree 2. __________. Most children have such a high ideal of their parents, unless the parents themselves have been 3.  _____________ that it can hardly hope to 4. _________  to a realistic evaluation.

      Parents would be greatly surprised and deeply5.  _________ if they realized how much belief their children usually have in their  6. __________ and infallibility , and how much this faith means to a child.

If parents were prepared for this adolescent7. _________ , and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing8.  ________  powers of observation and  9. _____________  judgment, they would not be so hurt, and       10. _____________ would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.

Type your answers here:

Watch a video clip and discuss the question.

Q1:How much do you know about this American family sitcom “GrowingPains”?

Q2:Taking into consideration of Odyssey years, what message can you get from thisTV program?