Teenagers pregnancy

March 11

One of the biggest problems I currently see in schools is the early pregnancy among teenagers. What do you think about it? is it one of your school's concerns? do you speak about this topic with your teenage students?

Let's speak about it...

The news we are going to listen and read dates back of last year 10th July. Listen first and then read:

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1007/100710-pregnancy.mp3
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1007/100710-pregnancy.html
Worksheet

Teenage Mothers Risk Premature Babies

TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if  a-h  below are true (T) or false (F). a. The report says girls in their early teens risk having premature babies. T / F b. Researchers looked at more than 56,000 teenage pregnancies. T / F c. The study found the problem was equally spread among all races. T / F d. The researchers believe there is a need for better sex education. T / F e. The report found a link between teenage pregnancy and social skills. T / F f. A researcher said young teenage bodies may risk premature births. T / F g. Teens get more help from health workers for their second pregnancy. T / F

BABIES: What are the best things about them? Rank these and share your rankings with your partner. Change partners and share your rankings again. their laugh playing with them looking at them sleep feeding them holding them changing them watching them grow naming them SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article. 1. likely a. connected 2 premature b. timeframe 3. turned c. conclusions 4. period d. early 5. ethnic e. levels 6. findings f. probable 7. rates g. centred 8. related h. correct 9. proper i. became 10. focused j. racial

GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text. A newly-released study ____________ that teenage mothers are 'more likely to give birth prematurely'. The report from University College Cork, Ireland, says pregnant girls between the ages of 14 and 17 are at a much higher ____________ of giving birth to premature babies. They said this was ____________ so if it was a second pregnancy. The researchers found that a ____________ of all teenage mothers became pregnant again before they turned 20. Head researcher Ali Khashan ____________ at the pregnancies of over 56,000 women in the northwest of England over a three-year ____________. There were 3,636 women aged between 14 and 17 at the ____________ of birth, and 7,506 between 18 and 19. They found teenage mothers were more likely to be underweight and come from a ____________ ethnic background. period quarter risk suggests white time particularly looked The researchers published their ____________ in the journal ‘BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth’. They call for better sex education at school and the ____________ and use of contraception after a teen has given birth for the first time. The researchers said the ____________ of teenage pregnancy were ____________ to the mothers’ social background. They discovered that around thirty per cent of the teenage mothers came from ____________ areas. Mr Khashan also suggested the body of young teens may not be ____________ for childbirth: “It is possible that the increased risk of poor pregnancy outcome is related to biological ____________,” he said. He also noted teenage girls did not get proper medical advice after becoming pregnant and that health service workers generally ____________ on them less when they had a second child. http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1007/100710-pregnancy.html   Video activity.     1. Is unwanted teenage pregnancy an issue where you work? 2. What can be done to prevent it from happening? 3. What's your opinion about aborting a teenager's unwanted pregnancy? Would you consider it under any circumstances? 4. What about giving the child away for adoption? What do you think about it? 5. What should children be taught about conception and pregnancy? 6. Is it better that teenagers remain celibate or that they become sexually active, using condoms? Explain it? 7. What should parents do when it happens? 8. What about the future father? What should he do under the circumstances below? - if he is underaged too? - if he is older than 18? - If he is older than 35? - If he has raped the teenager? - if he has a wife? - if he denies it? II. Watch the movie segment and answer the following questions in groups: http://warmupsfollowups.blogspot.com/search/label/teenage%20pregnancy 1. Describe what happened in the segment. 2. What was her mother's reaction? 3. What was her father's reaction? 4. What was her friend's reaction? 5. What did Juno say she was going to do? Do you like her idea? 6. What would you do if...? - You were Juno? - You were Juno's best friend? - You were Juno's parents? - You were the father of the baby? - You were the foster parents to whom Juno promised to give the baby away. related focused findings poorer immaturity promotion poorer rates