Lesson 2. What Affects Teenagers' Personality?
What you'll learn:
Vocabulary: What Affects Teenagers’ Personality
Grammar: Indirect Questions
Speaking: Discussing teenagers’problems, their personality and roles in the family
Writing: Writing an essay “Family’s influence on teens’ success”

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LISTEN AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS! Read Listening Material
Read through the questions. Then listen to the passage and answer the following questions.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   a) Theories of personality
   b) Influencing factors on personality
   c) Personality project by TV channel
   d) Age groups involved in the project
   e) Employers’ personality assessment
2. Choose the correct statement according to the passage.
   Which is not included into major perspectives of personality?
   a) Biological
   b) Trait based
   c) Humanistic
   d) Psychoanalytic
   e) Social cognition
3. Choose the correct answer according to the passage.
   BBC personality project ______________
   a) experienced fall in number of participants
   b) involved only youngsters and teenagers
   c) gained success in the early days
   d) lasted for about thirty years
   e) started twenty years ago
4. Choose the WRONG statement about BBC personality project according to the passage.
   a) It dealt with emotions and motivation
   b) It mainly focused on adult’s development
   c) It touched on gender and ethnicity factors
   d) It was used to measure success of the workers
   e) It involved genetics and family relationship factors
5. Write adjectives describing more successful people according to the passage.
6. Which word in the passage is closest in meaning to the word “company”

Personality is made up of a characteristic set of our behaviors, interests and motives. Numerous existing personality theories fall into one of four major perspectives. These four perspectives are psychoanalytic, humanistic, trait based, social cognition. The BBC started an exciting project of personality, which lasted 30 years. In the early days of the project, it was difficult to involve people, but in the last twenty years, more and more people, including young children and teenagers started to join. The project touched on ethnicity, gender, genetics and family relationship factors that can influence personality development of young children. The other personality forming factors such as, biology, motivation and emotions were also subject of the project. The project was used to assess success in the workplace and to achieve this a company of highly paid employers were put to the personality test. The experiment showed that people who are agreeable, open- minded and extraverted, were more successful

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   a) Theories of personality
   b) Influencing factors on personality
   c) Personality project by TV channel
   d) Age groups involved in the project
   e) Employers’ personality assessment
2. Choose the correct statement according to the passage.
   Which is not included into major perspectives of personality?
   a) Biological
   b) Trait based
   c) Humanistic
   d) Psychoanalytic
   e) Social cognition
3. Choose the correct answer according to the passage.
   BBC personality project ______________
   a) experienced fall in number of participants
   b) involved only youngsters and teenagers
   c) gained success in the early days
   d) lasted for about thirty years
   e) started twenty years ago
4. Choose the WRONG statement about BBC personality project according to the passage.
   a) It dealt with emotions and motivation
   b) It mainly focused on adult’s development
   c) It touched on gender and ethnicity factors
   d) It was used to measure success of the workers
   e) It involved genetics and family relationship factors
5. Write adjectives describing more successful people according to the passage.
   Answer: agreeable/ open- minded/ extraverted
6. Which word in the passage is closest in meaning to the word “company”
   Answer: workplace