[02/16]Dealing With Peer Pressure^^*

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Topic1

Dealing With Peer Pressure

Peers influence your life, even if you don't realize it, just by spending time with you. You learn from them, and they learn from you. It's only human nature to listen to and learn from other people in your age group.

Peers can have a positive influence on each other. Maybe another student in your science class taught you an easy way to remember the planets in the solar system, or someone on the soccer team taught you a cool trick with the ball. You might

admire a friend who is always a good sport and try to be more like him or her. Maybe you got others excited about your new favorite book, and now everyone's reading it. These are examples of how peers positively influence each other every day.

Sometimes peers influence each other in negative ways. For example, a few kids in school might try to get you to cut class with them, your soccer friend might try to convince you to be mean to another player and never pass her the ball, or a kid in the neighborhood might want you to shoplift with him.

Questions

1. Have you ever changed your decisions because of peer pressure? when and why? please tell us about the situation.

2. Do you prefer to give a influence to the others or just believe that you'd better

accepting any advices from others?

3. what was the big deviation with your peers?

Topic 2

Children Disregard Poor Parents

By Kim Tae-jong

Staff Reporter

Koreans have always been known to place a high value on caring for and supporting their families, but a recent survey suggests that this may be on the decline.

Professor Jeong Jae-ki of Soongsil University announced the results of research that indicates Korean children tend to disregard their parents if they are poor.

The result shows that the frequency that children visit their parents hugely depends on their wealth.

Jeong surveyed children and their parents aged over 60, taking into consideration their educational background, marriage status and income to see what affect it had on their frequency of contact.

The result shows that the wealth of the parents was the strongest factor, suggesting that the richer parents are, the more often their children visit them.

It was found than on average, with every 1 percent increase in income, the chance of parents being visited by their children more than doubled.

But other member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) such as Britain, the United States, New Zealand saw the opposite outcome _ the poorer the parents, the more often their children were likely to visit.

Most OECD member countries showed that the wealth of the parents has nothing to do with the frequency of their children's visits.

Family ties also seem to be weaker than is traditionally believed, according to the research.

Only 27 percent of the surveyed Koreans said that they see their mother at least once a week, much lower than the average of 55 percent of those from other OECD countries. The low figure puts Korea at the bottom of the list of 27 countries.

Twenty-three percent of Koreans said they meet their father at least once a week with the frequency rate ranking 26th. In terms of contact between brothers and sisters, Koreans also ranked the lowest.

But the irony is that when they need a money, most Koreans first ask for help from their family members.

Some 51 percent of Koreans answered that they seek financial help from their family members or relatives first.

But if they need emotional support, they first talk to their friends or colleagues _ about 55 percent said they contact their friends when they feel down.

The professor concluded that Korean families tend to serve a more practical rather than emotional function.

Questions

1. Do you live with your parents?

  1) If so, how about the relationship with your parents? Please tell us the way how you keep in with your family.

  2) If not, how many times do you contact with your parents? And when do you miss them?

2. Do you know someone who behaves like above? How do you feel when you look at the person?

3. When do you feel money is much important than other things?

4. Talk about the matter of living with your or spouse's parents after marriage. If you don't want to live with, tell us how frequently you will contact your parents or parents-in law.

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