Устная тема "Youth"

Youth

Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation. It has never been true than it is today. The young people are better educated. They grow up quicker and are not so dependent on their parents. They think more for themselves and don`t blindly accept the ideals of their elders.

In Britain life used to be fun for teenagers. They have money to spend and a lot of free time. But for many young people life is harder now. Jobs are difficult to find. There isn`t so much money around. Things are more expensive and it`s hard to find a place to live. Teachers say that students work harder than they used to. They are less interested in politics and more interested in passing in passing exams. They know that good exam results may get them better job. Three quarters of young people do more or less what their parents did. They do their best at school, find some kind of work in the end and get marry in their early twenties. They get on well with their parents and enjoy family life. They eat fish and chips, watch football on TV and go to the pub. Most young people worry more about money than their parents did twenty years ago. They try to spend less and to save more.

For some people the answer to unemployment is to leave home and look for work in one of Britain`s cities. Every day hundreds of young people arrive to London from other parts of Britain, looking for jobs. Some find work and stay. Others don`t find and go home again or join the army of unemployed in London.

I think in Belarus we have the same problems and some others. It is also hard to find well-paid work in Belarus and people go to big cities to find a job or to get good education. Many young people want to enter university because they don`t want to go to the army in this time. Now people want to be well-educated because the majority of firms and companies employ only higher qualified people, but universities can`t educate all of them tree, so those who haven`t enough money can`t get enough knowledge.