Открытый урок по темe “Juvenile Crimes: Causes and Ways of Prevention”
план-конспект урока по английскому языку (10 класс) по теме

    Открытый урок по темe “Juvenile Crimes: Causes and Ways of Prevention”    

                       Ильющенко-Крыловой  Татьяны Викторовны,

         учителя английского языка гимназии №631 Санкт-Петербурга

    В 10 классе изучается тема “Crime and Punishment”, которая ориентирует подрастающее поколение на достойную социализацию в общество и позитивное решение проблем взросления. Реализация цели урока позволяет учащимся продемонстрировать межпредметные знания, мыслительно-поисковые и коммуникативные компетенции.

Тема урока заставляет их задуматься, к чему приводят подростков анти-социальные явления. В процессе работы учащиеся учатся аргументировано излагать свои мысли,  четко формулировать высказывания, выслушивать точку зрения членов группы.   Владение информационными технологиями помогает им работать с документами. Данный урок является итоговым при изучении темы и позволяет организовать работу в группах.

        Цель урока: Осознание школьниками причин подростковой преступности и  

                                нахождение способов ее предотвращения.

    Образовательная задача:1. повышение мотивации изучения английского языка;

                                                  2. создание условий для тренировки лексики по изучаемой

                                                      теме;

                                                  3. совершенствование навыков говорения.

    Развивающая задача:1. развитие аналитического мышления;

                                            2. использование исследовательского опыта в практической

                                                деятельности;

                                             3. развитие познавательного интереса.

   Воспитательная задача:1. осознание ответственности за совершаемые преступления;

                                               2.воспитание нравственного отношения к своим поступкам;

                                               3.воспитание культуры общения и сотрудничества.

     Технология: исследовательская

      Форма урока: групповая работа

Teacher: Today our lesson is devoted to the topic “Juvenile crimes. Causes and ways of

                prevention.”  Why are we going to discuss this issue?

  Students: 1. Nowadays many young people want to become adults as fast as possible. They

                       start smoking, drinking and sometimes using drugs. These factors rather often  

                       lead to crimes.

                    2. Some teenagers do not find common language with their parents and they may

                        find friends among those who involve them into criminal activity.

                    3. Other possible answers.

Teacher: Just so.  The increasingly high rate of juvenile delinquency is a great challenge in a                  modern society. Young people are those who will further continue to construct the society and

                 protect life values. Unfortunately, not all young people choose the right way of joining

                 an adult world and adequate socializing. Very often it is not their fault that they

                 become offenders. Will you watch a documentary and later we’ll talk about causes

                 why youngsters commit crimes.  

After watching a documentary the teacher offers the students to say what impression it has produced on them. She explains that sociologists have investigated the problem and defined that several factors are responsible for committing crimes by teenagers. The teacher invites the students to think over the causes of crimes and to call them. On the electronic board the students  write down their ideas and then compare them with scientists’ conclusions.  

                                   The causes of crimes committed by young people  

                       Sociologists’ Views                                                  Students’ Views

• Economic Situation                                     - Financial inequality of families,

(financial crises, unemployment,                - Unemployment of parents,

  income inequality)                                    - Single-parent families,

• Social Environment                                     - Drug or alcohol abused parents,

(school, friends, peer pressure,                    - Parents neglecting children,

 neighborhood, availability to drugs            - Criminal friends,            

 and alcohol, tendency of youngsters           - Movies demonstrating violence,          

 to be rebellious)                                           - Aggressive computer games

• Family Problems

(high rate of divorces, poor parental

 supervision, family violence and abuse

 of children, low values placed on children,

 alcohol or drug abused parents,

 parents being involved in crimes,

 lack of mutual understanding)

• Negative Influence of Mass Media

(TV programs, films, books full of violence)

• Dangerous Computer Games

Teacher: Good for you. Great  job. You have managed to determine

                 the causes of juvenile crimes that have much in common with

                 sociologists’ research.

Work in groups

         Each group is given a task to discuss one of the causes of juvenile offending and later

       explain reasons to all students.

                    Group №1   Economic Causes

               Financial crisis due to poverty gets a person involved in criminal activities. A poor parent may not be able to educate his children, and lack of education may lead to criminal thinking of a child. Homelessness  makes the children spend much time outdoors together with other children deprived of normal living conditions.

              Lack of employment leads to criminal activities. An unemployed parent needs to run his household. When he does not find any legal opportunity to earn money he may become                         a participant of criminal activities to finance living of his family and involve his child.

              What is more,  income inequality of families may lead to the situation when a child envies his classmates who have expensive things while he does not. This turns him to stealing things at shops and at school, and he becomes a thief.

                     Group №2     Social Environment

                 Social environment mirrors what teenagers value and what priorities they set. Today youngsters are more independent than the elder generation. When this tendency goes to an extreme, problems arise. Some teenagers want to throw away the traditional principles most of which were considered positive by many generations. Youngsters are reluctant to listen to the  advice of adults. They behave in the way they like, so it might bring them to committing crimes.

               In addition, in some classes a child with a low self-esteem can experience negative influence of his friends and feel peer pressure. He is not able to resist classmates who are engaged in offending. Then the risk of his becoming an offender gets higher.

                     Group №3    Family Problems

                  The important factor of juvenile crimes is the increasing number of divorces and appearance of single-parent families. The children in single-parent families are taken less care of and they feel being neglected and isolated. The lack of parental love, family violence and abuse of children make them hostile and cynical towards everybody.

                  Moreover, the children whose parents are drug or alcohol abused have a greater danger to follow their example. Such families have no money for normal life and their children are more likely to become offenders.

                       Group №4     Negative Influence of Mass Media

                   One of the reasons of  high rates of youth delinquency is the negative influence of mass media. Some TV producers, film makers, book publishers are more concerned with profits than with the quality of production. These books , movies and violent computer games may also have negative effects on children. When teenagers are exposed to violence, aggressive ideas are introduced into their minds, which can bring harm to their mentality.

 Some teenagers watch films showing murders, fights and crimes rather often, while their parents do not know about that. Gradually children learn to think that violence is an ordinary way of life,   shooting and cheating are ways to succeed. Such wrong understanding has an impact on their life style. Violent computer games produce the same damaging effect on human minds.

       Teacher: We have analyzed the reasons why young people can come to delinquency.

                        It is awful when teenagers remain face-to-face with their problems without

                        any assistance. They need help when get into trouble.

                        Discuss in groups possible ways to prevent juvenile crimes, print them on

                         computers. Finally, we’ll make up a joint document of solutions. If solutions                                              

                         of some groups are alike, all together try to find the proper words

                          to formulate the ideas. Will you say why you consider these suggestions

                           important.

                                      Solutions to Prevent Juvenile Crimes

              Solutions                                                                   Arguments

1. To give children good education.              1. At school children acquire not only academic

                                                                           skills and knowledge. They are taught traditional

                                                                           moral principles and beliefs that show the way

                                                                            to avoid criminal situations.

2. To discuss with students what it                 2. Studying school subjects aims young people

     means to be successful, happy and                 to be a success and share their knowledge

    sharing.                                                             with others.

3. To teach children in families and in             3. If a child feels parental love and warmth he will

     schools to be affectionate parents.                   give these feelings to his children in future.                                                                                  

                                                                              Parental affection, supervision, guidance can                                       

                                                                               prevent a crime of a child.                                

4. To find mutual understanding between        4. Inner understanding of teenagers’ problems can

     children and adults.                                           smooth away disagreements. Parents must

                                                                                spend more time with their children. It can    

                                                                                help them realize what worries children, what

                                                                                they feel, how to correct their behavior.

5. To increase activities for teenagers, such      5. If teenagers are engaged in these activities

     as regular sport, drama or art-based                  they do not have time for misbehavior. They

      activities.                                                           think about their interests.

6. To teach children to say “no”.                        6. It is very important that psychologists teach

                                                                                children not to be afraid to say “no” to peers

                                                                                who offer them to taste alcohol or drugs.

7. To imprison drug or alcohol dealers.              7. If they are not imprisoned they involve youth

                                                                                 into criminal activity.

8. To forbid TV programs, publication of           8. Children must not have an access to mass

     books, films containing violence.                       media production containing violence and

                                                                                  scenes of negative influence on their mind.

9. To reduce unemployment.                                9. Governments must find ways to increase

                                                                                   job placement. Employment of parents will

                                                                                   provide families with money and goods.

                                                                                   Parents can take children to theatres,

                                                                                    museums.

       Teacher: Summing up, what conclusions can we draw?

       Students: 1. We can say that it is more important to prevent juvenile crimes

                           than later to rehabilitate and reintegrate young offenders into the society.

                         2. Parents should devote more attention and spend more time with their children

                             if  they do not want their child to get on a wrong way. Trusty talks with a child

                             are of a great importance.

                         3. Rather often teachers also can help a child if he gets into trouble. They can

                              share their experience with him and explain why it is better to avoid a trying

                              situation.

                          4. All students express their viewpoints.