2. Unit 2
Growing Pains

3. Have you ever watched the famous American TV drama “Growing Pains”?

4. Growing Pains was on TV from 1985 to 1992, a total of seven years and it told over 160 different stories. The program was so popular in the USA that many of the people, both at home and abroad, still watch them now.

5. Main characters Carol Seaver Jason Seaver Maggie Seaver Mike Seaver
Ben Seaver
Chrissy Seaver

6. Welcome to the unit Questions: 1. What are Growing pains?
2. Who may have growing pains?
Growing pains aren't a disease. Growing pains mean the troubles and difficulties that teenagers meet when they grow up.
teenagers.

7. Picture-talking
What kind of growing pains do you have? Could you find a way to solve them?
Look at 4 pictures on Page 21
Whether you have experienced these problems or not?
Read the instruction and answer the following questions.

9. Picture 1
What is the boy doing and how does he disturb his family?
How is the mother probably feeling and what does she want him to do?
What is her attitude (态度) toward the boy’s hobby?
He is listening to music. He turns up the tape-recorder too loud.
Angry. She probably wants him to turn it down or turn it off .
She is against it, or say, disapproves of it.

11. Picture 2
What happens to the girl with a bag?
What did her parents tell her to do and what’s the father doing now?
What do you think she should do?
She comes home late.
They told her to be home by 6 o’clock, so the father is blaming her for being late.
She should explain to her parents why she is an hour late.

13. Picture 3
Why do so many fans crowd around the pretty lady (maybe a film star)?
Does the mother allow the girl to ask the lady for her signature(签名)? Why not?
What may the girl think of her mother?
They like her and are asking her for her signature(签名).
No, because her mother thinks it’s a waste of time.
She may think her mother doesn’t understand her.

15. Picture 4
What is the boy probably doing?
Don’t you think the boy plays too much of it? Should the mother stop him doing so?
What do you think the boy should do if he wants to do as he likes in the future?
He is probably playing computer games.
He should study hard and make his school work better first.

16. From 4 pictures What’s the main cause of growing pains?
Children and parents can’t understand each other sometimes
Some parents make decisions for children
Some parents don’t always trust their child
What’s the main cause of growing pains?

17. Further discussion
1. What do you do when you have family arguments with your parents?
2. Do you think there is a generation gap between you and your parents? If so, what is the best way to solve the problem?

18. Positive attitude
a smile
a talk
a walk
a letter
a gift
understanding

19. If parents and children want to get on well with each other, they should …
love
parents
children
understand
respect
help
learn from each other