17. Young People's Problems Flashcards

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Un enfant / des enfants

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A child / children

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L’enfance

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Childhood

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L’adolescence

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Adolescence / the teenage years

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Un âge ingrat

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An awkward age / a difficult age

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An adolescent / a teenager

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Un adolescent

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Un ado / une ado

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A teenage boy / a teenage girl

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La jeunesse

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Youth

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Une bande de jeunes (sens péjoratif)

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A gang of youths

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La culture des jeunes

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Youth culture

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Un jeune

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A young person

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Les jeunes

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Young people / the young

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La jeunesse d’aujourd’hui / les jeunes d’aujourd’hui

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The youth of today / today’s young people

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Grandir

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To grow up

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Ne pas encore avoir 20 ans

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To be still in one’s teens

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Être adulte

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To be grown-up

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Un adulte

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A grown-up / an adult

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L’âge adulte

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Adulthood

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La maturité / l’immaturité

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Maturity / immaturity

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Être mûr / être immature

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To be mature / to be immature

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Le malaise / mal-être des jeunes

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The malaise in young people

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Se sentir bien / mal dans sa peau

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To feel good /bad about oneself

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La violence des jeunes

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Teen violence / teenage violence

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L’absentéisme scolaire

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Truancy

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La délinquance juvénile

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Juvenile delinquency

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Un enfant qui rentre chez lui avant ses parents

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A latchkey kid

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Le suicide des jeunes

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Teenage suicide

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La grossesse des adolescentes

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Teenage pregnancy

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La boulimie

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Bulimia

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Être boulimique

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To be bulimic

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L’anorexie

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Anorexia

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Être anorexique

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To be anorexic

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Être stressé

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To feel stressed

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La désespérance

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Desperation

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Le désœuvrement

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Idleness

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Ne pas avoir de repères

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To have no points of reference

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Trouver sa place dans la société

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To find one’s place in society

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S’insérer, s’intégrer dans la société

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To integrate into / with society

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Le racisme anti-jeunes

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Prejudice / bias against young people

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Étudier pour passer des examens stresse la plupart des jeunes

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Studying for exams stresses out most young people

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En France, les jeunes commettent un cinquième des délits, soit deux fois plus qu’il y a 25 ans

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Young people commit a fifth of all crime in France, double the proportion of 25 years ago

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Les parents ne donnent pas toujours aux adolescents les conseils qu’ils ont besoin

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Teenagers don’t always have the parental guidance they need

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Elle n’a plus besoin que ses parents lui montre la voie. Elle peut voler de ses propres ailes à présent

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She no longer needs to be guided by her parents. She can stand on her own two feet now

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Aujourd’hui les jeunes sont confrontés au chômage et au sida

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Young people are having to cope with unemployment and aids