generation-gap代沟英语演讲

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Father And Mother I Love You
• stand in the other’s shoes • give each other chances of understanding
and making mistake • be forgiving and consideration • talk freely and equally
• In my opinion, most problems between parents and children could be solved by joint efforts of both sides to enhance mutual understanding. It goes without saying that communication is the most effective way to broke the ice between people.
often arise from parents’ tendency to interfere in children’s
daily activities.
➢ The technological advances play a great rule in enlarging the gap as the younger generations are quicker to accept and adopt these technologies so that they consider the conservative and technologically suspicious elders of their families very old fashioned in their, tastes, opinions and out looks toward life.
• Parents should do more to comfort and guide the children, while children must do their best to be considerate of their parents and show respect of them Everyone learn to be tolerant, then conflicts and estrangements can hardly come into existance.
understand their children. They regard it as their
responsibility to teach their offspring traditional beliefs. They
want them to be
and do well in school. Therefore,
Language
As we know, the network language has become popular among young people. However, the elder can’t make it clear what they talk about.
•First of all, generation gap puts the healthy growth of
• The gap remains wide for many reasons. Children want to be
free to choose their own friends, select their own classes in
school, plan their own来自百度文库future, earn and spend their own
主讲人：程莹 凡美慧 吴琼琼 于景 张曦
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Definition
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Causes
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Effects
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Advice
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Opinion
The term generation gap was coined by sociologist and anthropologist in the 1960s and is often still used today.It is a popular term used to describe wide differences in cultural norms between members of a younger generation and their elders.
• To bridge the generation gap ,mutual understanding is very important. The young must learn that many thing s the old believe in are for a good reason.The old must understand that what the young do is how things shou ld be done in a new situation .The young need to respe ct the olds'experience,while the old need to learn mor e fresh things and become more openminded.They have to find some common ground to sh are with each other.
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• Youth want to take risk in life and thus don’t try to get into traditional way to live. They like excitement and life time enjoyment. They just think about their present not future. When a parent says no for dating and live-in relationships, youngster finds them silly, start ignoring them and behave rudely.
Have fun together
• Have you ever thought why you get along well with your friend, that is because you are always playing with them ,so why not regard your parent as your friends? Gradually , you will find your parents can also have a good time with you.
Differences
On dressing
On language
On the music
On lifestyle
You like to dress more fashion,but your parents like your dress simple.
You like listen to pop music . But your parents like old music
3. Adolescent blindly pursue what they think of the trend
How to narrow the generation gap?
Talk to your parents with understanding
• we can warm each other's hearts and win friendships , and this can be sometimes even more powerful than gun barrels . So, in our daily life ,we should always follow the golden rule :Do, as you would be down by.
1. No matter how old their son or daughter is, the parents still
want to take them under their wings.
2. Parents often blame the children's behaviour or style of clothes instead of caring about their thoughts.
• On the other hand, the older people despise the modern
values which they call the" internet" and "globalization" values. They consider the young generation shallow, lacking knowledge and moral depth. This difference can best be seen in the difference of interests and hobbies. Taste of art , music, dressing sense, food habit and living style.
3.In many cases, parents don't ask for children’s opinion, not to listen to their explanation.
1.We have no experience 2.We don't want to communicate with our parents
money, and generally run their own life in a more
way than many parents allow. Also, young children wish to be
understood by their parents, but most parents don’t quite
• The parents should try to give up their absolut e power in family and give a fair environment t o their children since it can make their childre n feel free to chat with their parents.Then it is easy for the parents to approach their lovely c hildren.If so,a close and harmonious relations hip between parents and children appears