WORKSHEET TEMPLATE

Teacher’s Name Viviana Pulido Cadena

Student’s Level (CEFR) High School 11° course
B2 according to the CEFR
Population Adolescents X Adults
Skills to develop Reading and argumentative skills.
OBJECTIVE
Analysis:
Analyzes reading of everyday texts and videos relates them to their own
environment.

Synthesis:
Interprets and proposes implicit ideas about the text.

Knowledge:
Identify different grammatical aspect of the text. (Vocabulary, tenses and spelling)

TEENAGERS THEIR BRAIN, DECISIONS AND

INDEPENDENCE

Warm up (activity)

1. Watch the next video https://youtu.be/LWUkW4s3XxY take notes and answer

the next questions:

1. What aspects caught the attention of teenagers' brains?

a. Money, Rewards, and novel information

b. Sugar, Rewards
c. Novel information

2. The teenagers establish their independence through:

a. Enjoy the emotion

b. Search for new experiences
c. Social recognition
 d. All are true

Class Discussion:

3. What is the main idea of the video?

4. What caught your attention during the video?

Presentation (activity)

Read the following news:

Young people 'need help with independence'

By Sean Coughlan
BBC News family and education correspondent
10 July, 2019

Young people can need more help than previous generations in being independent when
they leave home, Education Secretary Damian Hinds says.

Students could "struggle with the pressures of moving away", he said.

There have been worries about mental health and wellbeing problems among students
when they go to university.

Mr. Hinds was launching a project teaching teenagers "life skills", such as budgeting,
sharing a house or coping with relationship problems.

Developed by Unite, a company that provides student accommodation, the workshops

will be available free to schools from next term.

They will cover "independent living, managing money and dealing with conflict" and
include questions such as:

"What is the price of a litre of milk?"

"How often will you wash your sheets once you move out of home?"
"What issues may occur living with a stranger?"

Part-time jobs
The education secretary said today's young people in many ways appeared "more
confident and curious" than in previous years.

But they could lack the resilience and experience they might once have gained from
activities such as part-time jobs.

Since the 1990s, there has been a sharp decline in the number of pupils and students
with part-time or "Saturday jobs".

And these could provide "life lessons learned from having to suck it up", Mr Hinds said.

"The more independent young people are before leaving home, the more resilient they
are likely to be when away at university," he said.

Mr Hinds said people were now "much more conscious of mental health considerations"
- and that the transition into university was an important part of this.

Moving away from home for the first time could be "daunting", he said.

A "good education is more than about the academics" and schools should also be a
"preparation for life".

The education secretary also revealed the life lesson he had missed out as a teenager
had been how to cook for himself.

Natalie Corriette, a teacher at St Bonaventure's sixth form, in east London, said the
workshops could help students who "feel anxious and unsure about what to expect when
living away at university".

Taken from: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-48926535

Practice (activity)

Read the text, then answer the questions below:

1. What is the meaning of the phrase "struggle with the pressures of moving away”?

a. What is the price of a litre of milk?

b. What issues may occur living with a stranger?
 c. Assume typical issues of independence.

2. A resilient person is who:

a. Independent
b. Cook for himself
c. Students with part time jobs
d. Life lessons learned and able to recover.

3. Which synonym would you use for the word “Daunting”

a. Discourage
b. Happy
c. Fun
d. Encouraging

4. Order the next phrases according the correct meaning.

- is What the milk price a of litre of?___________________________________

- issues may What a occur living stranger with?_________________________
- A academics good education is more than about the.____________________

Production (activity)

According to the topic, prepare an answer for each question and discuss with your
classmates:

- If you lived alone, what plans would you make for your life?
- What things you find interesting?
- What would you like to study before the high school?
- What do you think about adolescent brain research?

References

Cruz, D (2019) History of music. Example of woksheet. Retrieved from: pdf file.

Galván. A. TEDxYouth. 2013, feb,12. Insight Into the Teenage Brain:Retrieved from:
https://youtu.be/LWUkW4s3XxY
Coughlan. S. 2019, July, 10, Young people need help with independence.

Answer Key

What aspects caught the attention of teenagers' brains?

a. Money, Rewards, and novel information

b. Sugar, Rewards
c. Novel information

The teenagers establish their independence through:

a. Enjoy the emotion

b. Search for new experiences
c. Social recognition
d. All are true

Read the text, then answer the questions below:

What is the meaning of the phrase "struggle with the pressures of moving away”?

a. What is the price of a litre of milk?

b. What issues may occur living with a stranger?
c. Assume typical issues of independence.

A resilient person is who:

a. Independent
b. Cook for himself
c. Students with part time jobs
d. Life lessons learned and able to recover.

Which synonym would you use for the word “Daunting”

a. Discourage
b. Happy
c. Fun
d. Encouraging
 4. Order the next phrases according the correct meaning.

- is What the milk price a of litre of? / What is the price of a litre of milk?
- issues may What a occur living stranger with? / What issues may occur living with a stranger?
- A academics good education is more than about the / A good education is more than about the
academics.

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WORKSHEET TEMPLATE

Teacher’s Name Viviana Pulido Cadena

Student’s Level (CEFR) B2
According to the Common European Framework of
Reference for Languages (CEFR)
Population Adolescents Adults X
Skills to develop Listening, speaking and argumentative skills.
OBJECTIVE
Synthesis:
Interprets and proposes implicit ideas about the video.

Knowledge:
Identify different grammatical aspect of the text and different aspect around their
environment.

Warm up (activity)

1. Watch the next video https://youtu.be/hQigUH0vZSE “A funny look at the

unintended consequences of technology” take notes and answer the next
questions:

A synonyms of the word “Cyberbullying” could be:

a. Network bullying.
b. Funny network games
 c. Video games
d. Cyber Harassment

- What do you think about the video?

Have you ever someone make you cyber bullying?

- What do you think of technology and the work of people in the future? Is a good
tool?

Presentation (activity)

Read the following text, then take notes and develop the steps.

Technological Change and Retirement Decisions

Technological change can affect retirement decisions in two main ways: 1) through
the direct effect of technological change on the amount of on-the-job training, and 2)
indirectly, through the effect of technological change on the depreciation rate of the stock
of human capital. Economic theory does not provide a clear prediction with regard to the
effect of technological change on the optimal level of on-the-job training. This
relationship will depend on the effects of technological change on the marginal return to
training, and the complementarity and substitutability between schooling and training.
Given a positive correlation between technological change and on-the-job training,
human capital theory predicts that, ceteris paribus, workers in industries with higher
rates of technological change will retire later.(4) However, in industries that have higher
rates of technological change, human capital will depreciate at a faster rate, and higher
rates of depreciation will lead to a lower optimal level of investment, inducing earlier
retirement. Hence, from a theoretical perspective, the relationship between the long-run
variation in the rate of technological change across industries and the age of retirement
is ambiguous, but if there is a net positive correlation between on-the-job training and
technological change, industries that are characterized by higher rates of technological
change will have later retirement ages.
 Unexpected changes in the industry rate of technological change can also influence
retirement decisions. For example, an unexpected increase in the rate of technological
change will produce an increase in the depreciation rate of the human capital stock,
leading to a revised rate of investment of human capital. If older workers are unlikely to
revise their planned investments in human capital, it can be shown that the higher
depreciation rate will induce earlier retirement.

In our empirical work using the 1966-83 National Longitudinal Surveys of Older
Men, we find that it is important to distinguish between long-run variations and
unexpected changes in industry rates of technological change. Our two main findings are
that 1) workers in industries with higher average rates of technological change retire
later than workers in industries with lower rates of technological change, and 2) an
unexpected increase in the rate of technological change induces earlier retirement,
especially for workers 65 and older.

Extract from: Technological Change and the Labor Market text: Retrieved from:
https://data.nber.org/reporter/summer99/bartel.html Title two. Technological Change and Retirement
Decisions.

Practice (activity)

1. Find new words and expressions for yourself and clarify their meaning.
2. Develop a mind map of ideas about the consequences of technology and the
occupations according to reading.

Production (activity)

According to your mind map created, prepared a little ppt presentation,

considering your ideas, advantages and disadvantages of the technology for
 adult people. Then present to your partners and discuss your classmate’s
presentations.

Answer Key

A synonyms of the word “Cyberbullying” could be:

a. Network bullying.
b. Funny network games
c. Video games
d. Cyber Harassment

References

The National Bureau of Economic Research. (s/d). Technological Change and

the Labor market. Title two. Technological Change and Retirement
Decisions. Retrieved from: https://data.nber.org/reporter/summer99/bartel.html