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Teen Challenges
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Discuss the biggest challenges you face as a young person in Norway.
Teen Challenges in the UK
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Top 10 Challenges for Young People in the UK
Young people face various challenges on their way to adulthood, and more and more teens suffer from stress-related issues. Politicians and activists constantly discuss ways to help youth on both the community and the national levels. Still, many young people believe that the biggest challenge they face today is to find a productive place within society, either in the mainstream education system or through satisfactory employment. At the same time, employers report that young adults are unprepared and unequipped to enter the workplace, lacking a broad range of softer skills.
ACTION 17 How would you explain this survey to a friend? a Write a few sentences on what a survey is. b Find the survey online and write a few sentences on how many young people took part, their age and main worries. 18 Language work. Create 12 sentences using the 12 terms underlined in the top 10 list. 19 Discuss whether you think the top 10 challenges are similar for Norwegian youth.
SOURCE YMCA. 2019. A Different World: The Challenges Facing Young People. YMCA.co.uk 1 Lack of employment opportunities 2 Failure to succeed in education system 3 Issues related to body image 4 Family problems 5 Substance abuse 6 Pressures of materialism 7 Lack of affordable housing 8 Negative stereotyping 9 Pressures of 24-hour social networking 10 Crime SOURCE Central YMCA. 2016. A World of Good: The Challenge of Being Young in Modern Britain. YMCA.co.uk 20 Study the website allaboutschoolleavers.co.uk. a What kind of help can be found here? lacking mangler/manglar various forskjellige adulthood voksenlivet/vaksenlivet constantly hele tiden / heile tida satisfactory tilfredsstillende/tilfredsstillande unequipped ikke godt nok utrustet / ikkje godt nok utrusta failure to succeed å ikke lykkes / å ikkje lykkast substance abuse narkotikamisbruk affordable rimelig/rimeleg Vurderingseksemplar b Are there similar Norwegian Websites? c What can young people and society do to prevent and find solutions to the challenges? 21 Choose one of the top 10 issues to investigate further. Make an interesting oral presentation by using concrete examples to illustrate and explain: ● more statistics and facts on the issue ● whether this is a current problem in Norway ● consequences of the issue for both an individual and society
