To hold the discussion make use of all the texts and of the supplementary texts.

 

Discuss in groups of 3 – 4 students.

c auses of drug abuse among:

adults (health problems, frustration of the career, unemployment, family problems, desire to make money, loss of moral values);

teenagers (peer pressure, immaturity, curiosity, parents’ permissiveness, lack of parental love and care).

Consequences of drug abuse: (health disorders, spreading of venereal and infectious diseases, family disintegration, divorces, abandoned children, street children, demoralization and degradation of a personality, learning problems, crimes, disabled children, abandoned elderly people, different conflicts, employment problems).

Measures to reduce/eradicate the incidence of drug abuse and trafficking in human beings: (to promote peoples awareness about the danger and consequences of drug abuse, to develop the balanced national policies and strategies on drugs, to start moral re-armament campaigns worldwide, to ban advertising alcohol, cigarettes, drugs of any sort on TV and in other mass media, to enhance the role of a family in society).

Writing

Write an article to a newspaper expressing your concern about the present-time morals and also offer some suggestions on moral re-armament.

Write a letter to Mr. Alexander, who wrote the article “Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays”.

Imagine you are the head of a Charity Fund. Write a report about the charity activities your fund is performing.

Functional vocabulary

 

abandon v
adapt v
addict n, v
addicted adj
adultery n
advise v	~ sb on sth
advocate n
AIDS
alienation n
antisocial adj	~ behaviour, ~ actions
appeal v, n
asset n	a priceless ~
asylum-seeker n
availability n
barbiturate n	be dependent on ~
battery n
bear	~ fruit
bedridden adj	~ people
bereave v	~ed people
bereavement n	to do ~ counseling
bitterness n
boredom n
break down n
break out of v
buck up v
cannabis n
carer n
charity n
charitable adj
child-abuse n
coke-fiend n
decline n, v
deport v	to be ~ed
detain v
detainee n
deterrent adj,	~ effect on sth
donate v
down-drag n	~ of base instincts
dreamy adj	~ state
drug n	hard/soft ~s ~ abuse, ~ trafficking, ~ dealer, ~ carrier, ~ policies, ~ route, ~ addiction, recreational ~s, lucrative ~s, illicit ~s, ~ rehabilitation
empower v
enforcement n	~ programs, law ~ agencies/officials
enslave v
entitle v
enthuse about sth v
envision v
fend off v
fraud n
frustration n
greed n
hazardous adj	health ~
hardy adj	~ creatures
highlight v
HIV	~ positive
housebound adj	~ people
illicit adj	~drugs
incentive n
incidence n	HIV ~, ~ of drug abuse
interdict v,
interdiction n
laissez-faire adj, n	~ policy
lethal adj
long v	~ for sth
lucre n
lucrative, adj
mandatory adj	~ tests
massacre n
mentor n	an adult ~
mug v
nudge n, v	~ into doing sth, ~ sb away from drugs
outcry n
penalize v
peril n	~s of narcotics
policy-maker n
prevention n	~ efforts, ~ measures
recession n
toddler n
to traffick in sth/sb v trafficker n	~ in drugs; ~human beings; drug ~ing; drug ~
violence n
voluntary adj	~ work
volunteer n
volunteerism n

Phrases related to the topic

to clean one’s slate	moral re-armament
to contribute of one’s time and talents	to transmit HIV by shared needles
to fit into people’s spare time	HIV transmission rates
to have a sense of worth	a one-size-fits-all policy
information overload	a say-no to drugs approach
to sit on the fence	to be entitled to merchandise discounts
to put one’s heart into sth	to fend off peer pressure
on a grassroots level	to test positive
a grassroots family	to stay clean
like-minded people	to cut oneself off from drug takers
to succumb to peer pressure	needle exchange programmes
a child rearing manual	prodigies of chemistry
to raise money	violence begets violence
to get people off sidelines	drug related death
to smoke pot

Moral Re-Armament

 

Speech Functions Bank

 

I. Interrupting People

 

F Inf

I’d like to add something here, if I may. I have a point to make here.                          + SENTENCE May I say something here? Can I interrupt you for a moment?   Sorry to interrupt but + SENTENCE Excuse me, but + SENTENCE Wait a minute! Hold on!                + SENTENCE Hang on!

 

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