UNIT 2:

TEENAGE CULTURE

• Language: Use of informal words or slang to express feelings like “cachay”, “del corte”, “filete”, etc. (cool,

• Music: different types of music that represent

the way they think or feel (rock, pop, reggeaton, hip-hop, punk)

• Clothes: the way the adolescents like to dress (gothic, punk, visual, emo, artesanal, etc)

• Values: like friendship, loyalty.

How do you like to dress?

What kind of music identifies you? Why?

Do you use piercings?

Do you like tatoos? Do you got one?

Do you identify with any of these teenagers?

The words are:

• Identity

• teenager

• Young

• Clothes

• Music

• Hairstyle

• Fashion

Reading “Your Language, your style”VOCABULARY

Talk about: hablan sobre

Often: a menudo

In fact: de hecho

Can be found: pueden ser encontrados

Heading:

Worry a lot about: se interesan mucho

Against this trends: en contra de estas tendencias

certain group:

Share the same values: comparten los mismos valores

Shabby clothes:

Careless appereance: apariencia descuidada

Speech reinforce:

Change very quickly: cambian rapidamente

Fashionable:

Kind of test: tipo de prueba

Let’s find opposite words from the text for the next words:

a) Sellb) Old-fashionedc) Essentiald) Brand-newe) Carefulf) Approvalg) Similarh) few

Remember:

Childish is the opposite word of Mature

a) Sell: BUYb) Old-fashioned: FASHIONABLEc) Essential: IRRELEVANTd) Brand-new: SHABBYe) Careful: CAARELESSf) Approval: DISAPROVALg) Similar: DIFFERENTh) few: MANY