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Some Useful Ideas to Use At the ESL Lessons on Topic
“We Are Against Drugs”
Many reasons are often cited by youth for why they engage in drug use and abuse: boredom, depression, non-acceptance by peers and major life changes--such as parental divorce-just to name a few. Drugs abused by youth include hallucinogens, depressants, stimulants, narcotics and inhalants. To combat teenage drug abuse, parents and educators must stay on top of what drugs are "hot" and how best to prevent serious problems from occurring.
Reasons Not to Do Drugs
Your health is really at risk when you do drugs. Some drugs require you to stick needles in your arm- which can result in HIV which will eventually become AIDS. When you do uppers like crack, meth, Ecstasy, etc., your blood pressure goes up and you run a higher risk of a heart attack or a stroke. Ecstasy makes you incredibly thirsty and your body temperature goes way up. You run the risk of a heat stroke. This is why many nightclubs where the drug is popular have sprinkler systems that are on all the time, to keep the party-goers cooler. Overdose is common. And the person hooked on drugs usually doesn't worry about their health. Consequentially, instances of diseases like cancer take longer to diagnose and become harder to treat or are more damaging when they do finally get treated, if they finally get treated.
No respectable employer will hire or keep someone on who is hooked. Most addicts wind up losing their jobs over addiction.
When you run out of money, you begin to sell everything you own for one more hit. When you have nothing left, you begin to sell everyone else's stuff too. These things are usually stolen. And suddenly you are no longer just an addict, you are a thief as well. Many addicts get caught in robbery.
There are many ways that a person can die as a direct consequence of addiction. Overdose and stroke are the relatively peaceful ways to go. Then there is also suicide from the depression that comes from drug use.
Identification
- Youth who engage in drug abuse may be skilled in covering up their addiction, but many signs exist that can tip off parents and responsible adults. Physical symptoms of someone who may be involved with drugs include bloodshot eyes, dazed or confused expressions or even blank stares into space. Youth who are abusing drugs may spend an increasing amount of time in their bedroom or away from the house. Parents may also watch for major mood swings as well as changes in eating or sleeping habits.
Effects
- Drug abuse in youth can lead to both detrimental short- and long-term effects. Short-term effects of drug abuse are physiological symptoms such as dis-inhibition, dizziness, rapid breathing, increased heart rate and blood pressure and even changes in mood. Overdosing on any illegal drugs or prescription medications can cause death. Among the most serious consequences of drug abuse--according to the NIDA-is the fatal accidents that occur resulting from behaviors associated with teen drug abuse.
Prevention/Solution
- Many treatment programs and drug addictions centers exist to help parents get treatment for their children and to help youth overcome their desire to engage in substance use and abuse. Outpatient drug rehab centers offer treatments such as group therapy and after-school educational programs. Inpatients facilities help treat the most serious of drug abusers. Many junior high and high schools try to combat youth drug abuse problems by making students complete required educational programs and workshops that teach about the harmful effects of drugs.
According to Alan I. Leshner, Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), researchers have identified more than 50 factors that put young people at risk for drug abuse. Dr. Leshner divides these factors into two basic "paths to addiction:" young people who use drugs for social acceptance, and those who use drugs because they are suffering and need to escape from their own lives. Whatever the reason, the consequences of drug use are the same.
Physical Risks
- According to Drug Rehab.org, drug abuse can negatively affect every system of the human body.Organ function, circulatory and hormone systems, fertility, and brain chemistry, function and structure are all at risk.
Psychological Risk
With prolonged use, drugs can cause significant and permanent psychological damage; young drug abusers are at a higher risk for developing mental disorders, like depression and anxiety.
Behavioral Changes
- Serious changes in behavior is a common sign of drug use in young people, including withdrawal from family, a resentful attitude, violence or aggression, risky sexual behavior, and abandoning old friendships.
Poor School Performance
Drug use has a serious impact on a child's education; typical signs include falling grades, withdrawal from regular school activities, increased absence and dropping out.
Addiction
- According to Teen Drug Abuse.org, the biggest consequence of drug abuse is addiction, which amplifies every other drug-associated consequence; young people typically don't even realize that they have crossed the line to addiction.
Advice for Parents
Drug abuse is a scary thing. Unfortunately, we live in a society where drug use is becoming more and more common. Children are beginning to experiment with drugs and alcohol at younger and younger ages. We also live in a time where there is a great deal of single parent homes, which can lead to less supervision for our children. Additionally, peer pressure can be a hard thing for a young person to stand up against when it comes to experimenting with drugs. It is a good idea to put certain practices in place to help prevent your child from abusing drugs.
Instructions
1 Avoid drugs in your own life. Children watch what we do more than we are probably aware. If you have a drug dependency in your own life, chances are your child will be comfortable around drugs. If they watch you experiment and yet still lead a relatively normal life, they will be unlikely to believe that drugs can be really damaging. It is a good idea to avoid drug use yourself if you want your son or daughter to do the same. If you already use drugs, get some help so you can stop.
2 Spend time with your child. You will not have much influence on your child if you are never around. Make time with her a priority by eating meals together and spending time doing leisure activities. Encourage your child and compliment her often. If you want to be a positive influence, you should have a positive attitude.
3 Tell your child not to use drugs and explain the dangers involved in doing so. Many people take for granted that their child knows right from wrong or that he learns about drugs in school. This is not a chance you should take, and it is critical that your child knows where you stand. Make it clear that you do not support drug abuse, and you expect your child to make wise decisions in this area. If your family has a history of addictions, let your child know. Also explain that experimenting with a drug even one time can have serious consequences including addiction and even death. Let them know that certain drugs that appear less serious, such as cigarettes, can be the gateway to more serious drugs such as marijuana. You may also want to look at some resources about talking to your child about drugs. KidsHealth has information on this topic.
4 Get to know your child's friends. Allow your child to have his friends over and get to know the type of people he enjoys spending time with. Have his friends over for dinner and be around when they are all just hanging out together. It is a good idea to get to know his friend's parents as well, if the opportunity presents itself. Plan a barbecue and invite friends and parents in order to do so. If a certain child or parent makes you uncomfortable, let your child know.
5 Make extracurricular activities a priority. Oftentimes, drug experimentation is conjured up to fill gaps of boredom. An easy way to help prevent this is to make sure your child's schedule is full. Encourage her to play a sport, get a job, volunteer or join a club. The busier her schedule is, the less likely she will have long blocks of time to waste away.
Texts for Reading at the Lesson
A ROAD TO... SOMEWHERE?I Don't Think So!
The word Drug is defined as "any substance other than food that can affect the way your mind and body work." There are hundreds of different drugs, each with its particular effect on the body's nervous system. Narcotics are a series of drugs that affect the mind, causing mental changes. The United States Government will not allow any new drug to be prescribed by a doctor or sold by a pharmacist until the drug has been thoroughly tested and proven to be medically safe. These tests take as long as years before they are approved for use by the public; and even after they have been approved and sold for years, serious side effects may appear and the drug is removed and discarded for any further medical use.
Unstable drugs, referred to on the streets as Crack, PCP, Ice, LSD, Speed and many others, are made up of several chemical substances, which are made illegally in hideaways without proper equipment or skills to carefully measure exact proportions - resulting in a drug that no one knows what the after-effects will be.
FACT: Unstable drugs are responsible for killing thousands of young people experimenting with drugs each year. Those who escape death are sometimes confined to a mental institution.
A drug dealer's interest is in your money - not your health!
Always look for the signs!
Dramatic Changes in Behavior
Signs of Physical Deterioration
Identification with Drug Culture
Signs of Drugs and Paraphernalia
Dramatic Changes in School Performance
Some of Life’s Dangers
We are taught as children to avoid danger. In our world there are small creatures like snakes and spiders that if they bite or sting you, you will die. Over 30,000 people a year die from snake bite alone. Just the sight of such living things sends a message of DANGER to the observer and one stays away. There are other dangers out in the world that take more lives than the attacks totaled from those living creatures. The sad part is people who suffer from these killers place them into their own bodies. The end result is the same. So what is the difference?
Alternatives are different choices you have to help you stay drug free and trouble free
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Nick: I consider myself somewhat of a hobbyist, in other words, interested in a variety of hobbies - not just one. I have found by expanding my talents, it can benefit my family, friends, and in some cases, earn some extra income in the process.
Most of all, these hobbies are fun!
By getting involved in these positive alternatives, it will help you stay drug free and trouble free, and that is a lifelong reward.
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John: I enjoy creating computer-generated graphics and I understand I have only scratched the surface of this medium. I have spent many hours relaxing in front of my 19" monitor and designing.
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Jack: I LIKE TO COOK!
Yes that's right, give me a recipe, a spoon and a few goodies from the local grocery store and look out when the dinner bell rings! In class I have been exchanging recipes with some of my friends that also like to hang out in the kitchen and create masterpieces that tingle the taste buds.
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Mike: A friend of mine taught me how to use a 35mm camera. One day I took a few photographs up in the mountains and as we all do gave it no more thought, until I received the film back from the lab. Most of the photos I took that day were the usual snapshots but one really turned out nice. I was so impressed with the photo I had it enlarged to a whopping 5" x 7" enlargement. I began wondering why this one photograph stood out from the rest... and that is how it all started.
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Greg: Woodworking
When I was about 8 years old I watched as my Grandmother cleaned out one of those catch-all drawers that everyone has in their bedroom. She came across a small green cardboard box that contained a wooden chain about 24" long. She began telling me the story of this wooden chain's creation and creator. My Great Grandfather would sit for hours after a hard-day work and with his little pocket-knife whittle away at long pieces of wood. I sat studying this chain and all its detail while the story was told. I thought to myself; here my Great Grandfather, who has been gone for many years, has left something behind. Something that was made with his own two hands and a family keepsake. I thought it very special that as long as the chain survived, so would the memory of my Great Grandfather.
Woodworking is something I started by watching my Father work in his shop. I collected scraps of wood and with a few nails... created nothing, but it sure was fun. With a variety of small hand and power tools I was taught the basics. Once in high school I started taking wood shop classes and became proficient with the concepts and tools of woodworking. One of my first projects was a chess/checker board made out of the hardwoods maple and walnut. I have told my son of the boards creation, I think it will survive, and hopefully, so will the memory of its creator.
Multi-part verbson topic“DRUGS”
Complete the gaps:
- It wasn’t until I tried to come…the pills that I realized I was addicted.
- I spent three months in…..After that I feel better.
- When I came.…I remembered with horror some of the things I’d said.
- A lot of young people start taking..…at school.
- She always looks as though she’s on.. ..…
- Jimmy died of a drug…..….
- He cannot sleep without tablets. He OD’s…sleeping tablets.
1 come off-перестатьпринимать наркотики
2inrehab– реабилитация, лечение
3camedown– отойти от воздействия наркотиков
4takingdrugs– принимать наркотики
5 (tobe)ondrugs– быть зависимым от наркотиков
6 overdose– передозировка
7 OD’son – бытьзависимым
A second chance of childhood
Readthetextandcompletethegaps(1-6)withtheseextracts(a-g).Thereisone
extra extract.
a) At first Laura only saw the good things.
b) They are put on a three-meals-a-day diet based on fruit and vegetables.
c) I want to leave my drug life behind and never, never be tempted back.
d) They come to visit her every weekend.
e) And that meant I had to shoplift, or steal from people in the street.
f) But he came to visit me the other day.
g) They had no idea their daughter was abusing drugs.
AsBritain's drug addicts get younger and younger, a unique rehabilitation centre in the heart of the English countryside is helping children come off heroin. Report by Angela Nonstarter.
Laura Hardeman, 16, is sitting on a sofa in Middlegate Lodge, a unique drug rehabilitation centre which takes the youngest addicts in the country. They live there like a family in a converted farmhouse. Alongside the detoxification programme, the centre focusses on building up both physical and psychological health - a lot of the children are maladjusted after years of drug abuse and mistrust people who try to help them. They are given help 10 with how to communicate, make relationships and deal with conflict. Homeopathic remedies, massage, yoga and relaxation are part of the daily routine. Because people on drugs often don't eat, they tend to arrive very skinny or even suffering from malnutrition. (1)………....and are taught about nutrition, food hygiene and how to cook.
Laura has just completed the first stage of the programme to free her from her heroin addiction. She sits looking out at fields as far as the eye can see. Tossing shiny, blonde hair from her shoulders, she remembers Sunday walks in the countryside with her mum and dad; meals in the dining-room where an open fire blazed; curling up on the sofa in the sitting-room to watch a video with her mother and brother; the celebrations when she passed her exams to go to a grammar school; and the time when her parents were proud of their pretty, healthy daughter.