As the year draws to a close, I imagine you must have been thinking about what you are going to do next year. On that note, here's something I'd like you to listen to -you only need to listen to the 1st 2.15 minutes, the intro to the song:
Discuss the following questions:
1. John retells a recurrent conversation he's had with his mother. What is it about? How has his mum's attitude changed as the years went by?
2. Do you think this reflects stereotypical teenagers and their relationship to their parents? How?
3. Have you decided 'what you are going to do with your life'? Tell us about it. How did you make this decision? What factors did you prioritise when choosing?
4. Should parents interfere with this kind of decisions? Why (not)?
Please post your answer in a comment below.
1. John retells a recurrent conversation he's had with his mother. What is it about? How has his mum's attitude changed as the years went by?
ReplyDeleteThe conversation is about what will John do with his life. At first, John's mum take the problem as something not serius, but when the years pass, she start to be more insistent.
2. Do you think this reflects stereotypical teenagers and their relationship to their parents? How?
I think that can be a type of stereotypical, but not everybody are like John, lot of people have decide what they would do with his/her life when they were kid.
3. Have you decided 'what you are going to do with your life'? Tell us about it. How did you make this decision? What factors did you prioritise when choosing?
Next year I have the idea of start the university and at the same time have a job that give me some money. I'll study "Relaciones Publicas" at UADE. I decide to study and work because I like to be economicaly independece.
4. Should parents interfere with this kind of decisions? Why (not)?
Yes, I thik that parents can give us a special view of ours aptitudes. However, I belived that the final decision have take by everyone
Good answers, Borja, but please be careful with language (there are some agreement and word category issues)
Delete1) The conversation that the singer has with his mother is about his future. His mother insist about what he going to do with his life. Year by year his singer´s mom became more insistant with that.
ReplyDelete2) I think that it happened in a lot of children. Parents chase their children to make a desition about their future.
3) Yes I decided. I´m going to study in the university "gestion de medios y entretenimiento" at UADE. If I can I´m going to work. I decided that because is what I like the most.
4) Not in my case. My parents suport me in my decision and they want the best for my future but always helping me.
That's interesting, Guadalupe... I've never heard of that course of studies before! What does it involve?
Delete1)The conversation between the singer and his mother is about his future. His mother insist that he had to do something productive.
ReplyDeleteYears passed and his mom became more insistant and unbearable with that.
2)Nowadays, this don't happend with children. Maybe with someones but in generally parents let their sons do what they want, of course if they consider is healthy.
3)Yes, a few months ago I have decided what i'm going to do with my life. I'm going to study medicine at the UBA. I'm happy with my decision but i'm afraid too. A lot of persons said to be that is too difficult but i'm going to take the risk. In my family, my mother, my father, my grandfather and one of my aunts are doctors. I think that influenced me, I see them all my childhood doing things that doctors do and this attracts me. I would like to do that. I want to know how to give help to people who need it.
4) I think that parents shouldn't interfere with our decisions but what they can do it's influence us during our life. They can help us to decide, they can tell us what they think is best but the final decision is from us, we have to decide, we need to be free to decide.
Best of luck with that!
Delete1.the conversation tells a story about a boy whose mother keeps telling him to do something with his life. with the years his mothers began to be more and more desperate abouth his son's future.
ReplyDelete2.parents tend to press their children to do what the wanted to be in their childhood or also to do the same job they do so they will take over their job when they retire. also when children have to make their future desition they tend to be with other things in mind and that worries parents.
3.I have already decided, i'm going to study lic. in gastronomia, at the UADE, I wanted to choose this career a long time ago, this summer I went to a lot of cooking schools to do some serch on this and finally I decided to study at the UADE which has an agreement with the IAG(instituto argentino de gastronomia). I have in mind what i really want and i asked my parent if they could support me financialy.
4. i think that parent should interfere, but they souldn´t choose their children´s studyings. I think that is a good thing to have your parents opinion about what you want to do, becuase they are more aware about the life outside.
Good answers Guadalupe!
Delete1)The conversation he has with his mother is that she asks him what he wanted to do, and he answer that he want to play guitar.
ReplyDeleteHis mum’s attitude change as the years went by because she begins to worry more and more about the decision of his son.
2) Yes, because there are lot of cases in which parent take care of the decisions of his children.
3) Not yet. I haven’t decided.
4) I think that parents shouldn´t interfere with this kind of decisions, it is a personal decision.
Thanks Gonzalo!
Delete1-The conversation that he has with his mother is about his future, she asked him what will he do with his life and he always answer that he want to play the guitar. His mither attitude first was like she doesn´t care very much, but with the time she get more and more preocupated with his son answer.
ReplyDelete2-Yes but it isn´t the only stereitypical. Parents in many cases don´t support their with their desitions, but in other cases they do.
3-Yes, I will study to be a Cinema Director. I take the desition because I like very much cinema and movies. I priorisite what I like and what I am good for.
4-Yes, parents are our referents for many years and they can make un our minds very easyly. In my case they support me and show me the world of cinema, they are great!
That sounds like a very interesting course of studies. Good luck with that!
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1. John retells a recurrent conversation he's had with his mother. What is it about? How has his mum's attitude changed as the years went by?
ReplyDeleteits about what he will do in the future when he grows up, what profession will he study. First of all the mother was upset becouse the only thing he liked to do was to play the guitar and nothing more. and as the year go through she was really problematic for her becouse jhon didnt take it seriously.
2. Do you think this reflects stereotypical teenagers and their relationship to their parents? How?
in lots of cases yes becouse teenagers dont know yet what they really like and also some of thems are not interested on what they will study when they finish school.
3. Have you decided 'what you are going to do with your life'? Tell us about it. How did you make this decision? What factors did you prioritise when choosing?
i have decidied to study industrial engenier, i decided to study that becouse the important factors. i am good at maths and fisic and also i like to know how everything works and to try reparing them. i havent chose what university yet but im doing it now.
4. Should parents interfere with this kind of decisions? Why (not)?
no, they should not interfere becouse not everyone like the same. for these reasons lots of teenagers leave university. maybe they could help on choosing the university or serching to professions similiar to them likes and dislakes.
good answers, Manuel!
Delete1)He has a conversation with his nother about what would he do with his future, in the begining she is rather quite calm, but later when he turnes 17 and still wants to be a rock star she gets desperate.
ReplyDelete2)Yes it does, i belive that when parents push their children to make the choice they get nervious and get to take the wrong choices, this things take time.
3)For my future i was thinking about studyng about the empresarial bussines in uade, something alike human resources or public relationships.
4)Aparent should alway gave his word of advice, but the choice must be made only by the teenager, becouse its their future, not their parents
thanks, Lucas!
Delete1. John sings about a recurrent conversation he have had with his mother throughout his secondary school years. When John was 13, his mother asked him what he was planning to do with his life, and he answered that he wanted to play the guitar and to be a star. As the years went by, John still wanted to play the guitar and be a singer. At first, his mother didn't worry so much about it, but as the years went by she became more and more desperate about his son's future. She didn't think that being a musician was something that would make her proud of his child and wanted him to study anything apart from music. In some moment of the song, the mother told John "You like computer, don't you? Why don't you do something with computers?"
ReplyDelete2. I think that this reflects stereotypical relationship between teenagers and their parents because whenever teenagers want to study something different from the traditional careers (like medicine, law, etc) parents are always kind of doubtful about it. This is reflected in the song when John told her mom that he wanted to play the guitar (something different from studying a course or to work). Anyway, in this modern society these new courses are much more accepted than in old times. Nowadays parents are more worried about their children studying than what they are going to study. They encourage their children to study anything, because they want them to have a degree. This is because in many cases, we are going to be the first generation of our families to have a university degree (at least that my case!) and parents regretted not having studying at university.
3. I'm planning to study Literature at University of Buenos Aires and I hope to be a writer someday - that's my dream and I want to chase it with all my strength! Hopefully my parents support me, because in some cases this is not a course that parents support much. I found it a bit difficult to choose first, because I like journalism a lot too - but I prioritise what I feel at this moment to choose. What I'm feeling that I want to do is study literature and if I'm willing to do it I'll do it with pleasure. Maybe, if I decided to do something I'm not so encourage to do I won't do it with such enthusiasm.
4. I think parents should not interfere with their children decisions, but they do have to listen to them when we they unsure about what to choose. To my mind, parents should not oblige or influence their children to choose a career. We have to look for what we want to do in the depth of ourselves, because it's something that we'll do for the rest of our life. Parents can not decide our future, but I do think that they have to accompany us in our choosing process.
I very much agree with the end of #2, and feel quite identified with what you mention ;)
Delete1- The conversation is about a mother who aks constantly to his son what's going to do in the future, if he is going to work or do something. And she persuade him to do things he knows like something with computers. But he wants to play the guitar. While the years go by the mother came more desesperate.
ReplyDelete2- I don't think it's a stereotypical example. But I agree that moms worried about children future and they ask them what are they going to do.
3- I'm going to study Hotel Administration. I decided to study this because I look for a lot of subjects but this was which I liked more and I think this is the factor I priorised,
4- I tell them what I like and I want to study but they don't interfere with my decisions
Good answers, Mariana!
Delete1- the conversation is about the future of John and what he's going to do with his studyies. As years went by John's mom became more and more worried about his future because he is tottally sure that he want to be a guitarrist and may be be a rock star.
ReplyDelete2- no i don't, i know more cases about parents supporting their sons decitions than parents who pressurize them abiut their future.
3- I decided to study medicine. I'm sure of my decition because it's something that i really like. It was my own decition, noweone interfer on it but i ask my familly to give me some advice about this carrer as a doctor because i have many doctors in my family.
4- personally i think that parents shouldn't inferer on their sons decitions, by the way, they have to support their decitions. in the only case that parents should inferer on sons studying is that if they realize that their sons are going in a wrong way, taking drugs for example and "living the crazy life".
Great, I'm glad you found something that you really like!
Delete1. It's about what the guy is going to do about his future. He said that he wanted to play guitar and his mum answered that he was good with computers. As the years went by she turn more worried about his son's future.
ReplyDelete2. Yes I do, of course. It's very common in teenangers of 16 or 17 years old, isn't it? Parents turns worried about those's future.
3. Yes I have. I'm going to study to be a kindergarden teacher. I always liked children and I have an incredible relationship. I really think that they are adorable and also I'm very patient. Also I like to do crafts like draw, paint, cut, etc.
I prioritise the work out, the distance of the university, my tastes, etc.
4. I think that they shouldn't interfere in this kind of decisions, because it's our future and we decide. We (the teenangers) should listen our parents opinion, because they have more experience and they have been throught this.
How interesting! Are you going to study in Bernal?
Delete1. John retells a recurrent conversation he's had with his mother. What is it about? How has his mum's attitude changed as the years went by?
ReplyDeleteThe conversation he had with his mother it's about his career decition. He wants to devote his life to music, but she doesn't want that. At first, she thinks he's still to young and that his opinion is going to change, but as time passes she notices it remains the same and starts to become more and more desperate and demanding.
2. Do you think this reflects stereotypical teenagers and their relationship to their parents? How?
More or less. I think that parents are becoming more and more supporting if their children really devote to what they want to do. But I know that there're still a lot of parents that want their children to be lawyers or doctors, or to be the same as themselves (the parents).
3. Have you decided 'what you are going to do with your life'? Tell us about it. How did you make this decision? What factors did you prioritise when choosing?
I'm going to study Industrial Design. At first, I wanted to study music, or art, but then i realised that I couldn't do those as work instead of a hobby. I considered Graphic design, but I think it would bore me over time. Three years ago I learned about industrial design at it hit me, it was ideal for me. First, it needs a lot of creative work, but also, it's about thinking with logic, to solve a problem, and thinking about the best way to make something so it's better, more interesting, and clever. Once I saw an image that said that industrial designers have "the brain of an engineer, the heart of an artist, and the hands of a craftman", and it made me think that it was ideal for me. I think that I prioritised that the subject that I'll be studying would be my real vocation, the one thing that is ideal for me, that coincides with my way of thinking and doing things.
4. Should parents interfere with this kind of decisions? Why (not)?
I think parents should advise their children when they don't know that to do or if they can't decide, but they shoulnd't preassure them because it makes them stress themselves horribly. I parent must have faith in their child if they are sure of whay the want to do.
I agree that industrial engineering is a fascinating course of studies, I very much agree with your description of what it entails!
Delete1- In the conversation that John and his mother had , the mother asked john was he is going to do in the future , and John said he was going to play the guitar. At first, the mother took it calmly, but then she became more impatient.
ReplyDelete2- I think that in some cases yes , but in others, the parents give them more freedom to choose about their future .
3- I'm still in doubt, but surely I will continue something related to football beacause it is what it attracts me and I like it . Maybe I can study sports journalism or fitness coach next year.
4- In my opinion the parents have to give their children the freedom to study what they want and what makes them happiest. But they also have to guide them and help them if they have some problems in their choice about their future.
thanks Andres!
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ReplyDelete1) The conversation is about what John is going to do with his life. When he was a freshman, her mom thought that was going to change his mind, but when he started to grow up his mother went more and more serious because he kept on thinking about playing the guitar all day long.
2) It could ne stereotypical. There are many persons that are like John but at the same time there is a lot of people that decide about what they are going to do with there lives by there own.
3) Yes I did. I’ve decided that I’m going to study architecture at La Plata university. I would like to study this, because I like building and designing places. I think I’m a very creative person and that will make my studies easier.
4) No they didn’t. My dad is a cinema and music editor, my mom works at a female beauty saloon and my brother is a lawyer . They were surprised when I wanted to study architecture. Anybody in my family studied architecture.
Sent by Valentin:
ReplyDelete1. John retells a recurrent conversation he's had with his mother. What is it about? How has his mum's attitude changed as the years went by?
The conversation is about John s future. He said that he want to play the guitar, and the mother doesn t like so much that decition.
2. Do you think this reflects stereotypical teenagers and their relationship to their parents? How?
I don t think so, i think that the teenagers are becoming more ande more independent and the fathers don t influence so much in the decition.
3. Have you decided 'what you are going to do with your life'? Tell us about it. How did you make this decision? What factors did you prioritise when choosing?
I decide to study medicine. I took the decition for my self, but my parents always help me and give me all the oportunities.
4. Should parents interfere with this kind of decisions? Why (not)?
I think that the decition must be taken by the teenager, but i think that the parents can took a place so importante, they can help us and they can give us a lot of oportunities and information or experiences.