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UNIT 9LOVE IS WHAT YOU NEEDDiscussion point1. Are your parents good friends?2. Do they understand that you are growing up?3. Do mothers worry too much?4. Do fathers act from good motives?5. Do you need so much care?6. Do you like big families?Where do you think it was said?“Hard days have come, children do not respect their parents...” Ancient BabylonRead the text and answer the comprehension questions.YOU AND GROWN UPSPeople always talk about the problem of youth. If there is such a problem, which Idoubt, I think it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.There is only one difference between an old man and a young one. The young manhas a brilliant future before him and the old man has a splendid past behind him andmaybe that is where the problem is.When I was a teenager I felt that I was just young and uncertain, that I was a newboy in a big school. I was glad to know I was a problem to somebody because then I waspaid more attention to, and that is one of the things young people like.I find young people interesting. A young person may be self-confident, sometimestactless or selfish, ill-mannered or touchy, buy they do not live yet for money or comfortand they are free. They have no devotion to material things.I never talk to them about respect for elders: age is not a reason for respect. And Iwill speak with them as equals if I think they are wrong.ComprehensionFielden Hughes, Out of the Air (adapted)1. What are the differences between old men and young men?2. Name three features in young people which the author likes.3. What are the negative features he names? Are they really negative?107