Teen Truth

Practise your listening skills. Watch Teen Truth Live and do the tasks below.

A. Choose the right ending. 

1. This is a promotion trailer of a film recorded by a) filmmakers b) teachers c) students.

2. They were asked to record a) their first year in high school b) senior years c) their life in college.

3. The film is about the way teenagers really a) behave in class b) think and feel c) do things.

4. The purpose of Teen truth is to reach out to a) school boards b) the community c) students, teachers and parents.

B. Here are some of the messages of the promoters. Complete each gap in the sentences below with a suitable word.

What you do and 1 …………………….., and how you look at each other every -single day - has an 2 ………………… on the person sitting next to you, behind you, beside you.

You have the 3………………. to make school the safest, the healthiest and the happiest place it can be.

Gangs, alcohol and drugs are just the symptoms of what we really need in life – and that’s the 4………………. with each other.

When you go out into the 5……………………., what are you going to do? What are you going to do, as an 6 ………………….?

We tend to forget the good things – but the 7…………….. things – they last a 8…………………. .

These days we place great importance on filling the brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the heart with 9……………………. .

Have you been learning how to 10 ………………….. each other?

If you start making a difference in each other’s lives, things will 11 ………………..  .

C. Now answer the following questions:

1. Have you ever been punched, kicked, tripped or shoved on purpose by somebody else? How did you feel?

2. Have you ever had a rumour spread about you on My Space, Message, Facebook?

How did you feel? What did you do?

3. Have you ever punched, kicked, tripped, called somebody a name, made a racist comment, excluded somebody? Why did you do it?