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Unit 7 The Trying Twenties
Warm-up Activities Additional lnformation for the Teacher’s Reference Text The Trying Twenties Further Reading
Speaking Skills
Additional Work
Unit 7 The Trying Twenties
Warm-up Activities 1. What does “the trying twenties” mean? Why is the twenties a “trying” period? Here “trying” means straining one’s power of endurance, so the phrase means that the twenties is a period in which people undergo many ordeals that will temper their willpower and make them more mature. Twenty-somethings are presented with numerous tasks which they are not yet equipped to deal with. For example, to prepare for a career, to find a mentor who will guide you through life, to find a mate with whom you will spend your life, etc. These are the things that were once irrelevant, but now have become imminent. In a sense these are the “trials” they need to go through as they are becoming an adult.
Unit 7 The Trying Twenties
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3. Illusions are usually considered as negative. Can you think of how illusions can sometimes be beneficial for people in their twenties? People in their twenties are faced with problems never met before. They don’t yet have enough experience and resources to deal with them, but they usually have no one to turn to and they don’t like to look for help either. In times like this, illusions take away the fear inside a person and replace it with confidence and excitement. Since all they have is they themselves, the belief that their intelligence and willpower conquers all propels them forward. It is in the attempt to solve the problems that they mature.
Unit 7 The Trying Twenties
Additional lnformation for the Teacher’s Reference 1. Gail Sheehy Gail Sheehy ( 1937 — ) was born in New York City and educated at the University of Vermont. Later she received a fellowship at Columbia University where she studied under anthropologist Margaret Mead, who became her mentor. As a literary journalist, she was one of the original contributors to New York magazine. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984, she won the Washington Journalism Review Award for Best Magazine Writer in America for her in-depth character
Unit 7 The Trying Twenties
2. How will you describe people in their twenties?
Positive: energetic/incandescent with their energies, impatient to be on their own, eager to find their own way of living in the world, ambitious, brave, curious, adventurous, vivacious, confident, optimistic, cheerful, straightforward Negative: changeable, baffled, confused, lovelorn (sometimes), rash, reckless, immature
