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Task 2. At a youth centre.
Anyone want another Coke or something?
I think we're all drinking, Paul... thanks just the same.
I was thinking...what would you youngsters do without the youth centre?
You'd be pretty lost, wouldn't you?
Huh, it's all right I suppose, But I'm telling you, we don't need no bloody youth club to find something to do.
Me, well, I only come when there's a dance on.
Them berks what come all the time, well, they need their heads examined.
If I want to drink, well there's the pub, isn't there.
But how old are you, Paul? 16?
You can't drink in pubs, it's illegal.
No barman's ever turned me out yet.
Anyway, thanks for the drink.
What about a dance, Denise?
I don't mind. Come on then.
Would you care to dance, Mrs Brent?
Thank you, but no.
The music isn't of my generation. you know, the generation gap.
When I was young, I'd never have dared speak as Paul just did.
Especially with a clergyman present.
What sort of world do you think we live in, Mr Brent?
It's part of my job to know people, and especially young people as they are.
Please don't misunderstand me.
I only thought it offensive, if my own son...(Oh, I'm used to it, in a sense, I feel it's a kind of compliment that...)
Compliment? Don't get me wrong.
Paul feels free to express himself with me just as he would with his friends.
He accepts me as a kind of friend.
And really the so-called generation gap is a myth you know.
Teenagers aren't really so different.
As a teacher I find them quite traditional in their attitudes.
But look at the way they dress, and their hair.
You haven't got the point I think.
Those things are quite superficial.
I agree with Mr Finchley....Basically their attitudes are very similar to those of my generation.
So you approve of kind of language we heard from Paul just now. Now I didn't say that.
Anyway the concepts of approval and disapproval tend to over simplify matters.
Every generation creates its...its own special language... just as it creates its own style in clothes and music.
It's just that...er... the styles and habits of today's teenagers are so... well basically...so unacceptable.
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