Bullying includes behaviors that focus on making someone else feel inadequate, or focus on belittling someone else. Bullying includes harassment, physical harm, repeatedly demeaning speech and efforts to ostracize another person. Bullying is done with the intention of bringing another person down. It is important to realize that there are different kinds of bullying.
Physical Bullying: This is the most obvious form of bullying.
In this type of bullying, the instigator attempts to physically dominate another teen. This usually includes kicking, punching and other physically harmful activities. These are designed to instill fear in the one bullied, and coerce him or her to do something.
Verbal Bullying: When someone verbally bullies another, he or she uses demeaning language to tear down another's selfimage. Bullies who use verbal techniques excessively tease others, say belittling things, and use a great deal of sarcasm with the intent to hurt the other person's feelings or humiliate the other teen in front of others.
Emotional Bullying: This is even more subtle than verbal bullying. Teenage bullying that includes emotional methods aims at getting someone else to feel isolated, and alone. This type of bullying is designed to get others to ostracize the person being bullied.
Cyber Bullying: Electronic bullying is becoming a very real problem for teens. This type of bullying uses instant messaging, cell phone text messages, and online social networks to humiliate and embarrass others. This can be especially devastating to the people being bullied because they cannot even find a safe place in the virtual world.
There are a number of effects that come with teenage bullying. First of all, there are the obvious physical problems and injuries that can result from physical bullying. However, emotional, verbal and cyber bullying can deeply affect teens as well. These activities can lead to depression (and even suicide), drug use and stunted social development. These problems can affect a person well into adulthood.
Another problem is retaliation. In some cases, bullied teens have violent fantasies of attacking their bullies. There are instances in which these teens become violent. They turn to their classmates in order to get revenge. This can be a cause of heartbreak and difficulty.
(Adapted from http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/teenage-bullying.html) buku k13 bahasa inggris
Read again the text above and then answer these questions briefly.
1. What is bullying?
2. What do bullies usually do to other people?
3. What is the purpose of bullying?
4. How many types of bullying are there?
5. What differentiates one type of bullying from another?
6. What are the effects of bullying?
7. Which do you think is the most damaging kind of bullying?
8. Why do the bullied teens fantasize of attacking the bullies?
9. Why do the bullied teens seek for support to their classmates in retaliating the bullying instead of doing it themselves?
10. How can retaliation cause heartbreak?
11. What is the author’s purpose in writing this article?
Physical Bullying: This is the most obvious form of bullying.
In this type of bullying, the instigator attempts to physically dominate another teen. This usually includes kicking, punching and other physically harmful activities. These are designed to instill fear in the one bullied, and coerce him or her to do something.
Verbal Bullying: When someone verbally bullies another, he or she uses demeaning language to tear down another's selfimage. Bullies who use verbal techniques excessively tease others, say belittling things, and use a great deal of sarcasm with the intent to hurt the other person's feelings or humiliate the other teen in front of others.
Emotional Bullying: This is even more subtle than verbal bullying. Teenage bullying that includes emotional methods aims at getting someone else to feel isolated, and alone. This type of bullying is designed to get others to ostracize the person being bullied.
Cyber Bullying: Electronic bullying is becoming a very real problem for teens. This type of bullying uses instant messaging, cell phone text messages, and online social networks to humiliate and embarrass others. This can be especially devastating to the people being bullied because they cannot even find a safe place in the virtual world.
There are a number of effects that come with teenage bullying. First of all, there are the obvious physical problems and injuries that can result from physical bullying. However, emotional, verbal and cyber bullying can deeply affect teens as well. These activities can lead to depression (and even suicide), drug use and stunted social development. These problems can affect a person well into adulthood.
Another problem is retaliation. In some cases, bullied teens have violent fantasies of attacking their bullies. There are instances in which these teens become violent. They turn to their classmates in order to get revenge. This can be a cause of heartbreak and difficulty.
(Adapted from http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/teenage-bullying.html) buku k13 bahasa inggris
Read again the text above and then answer these questions briefly.
1. What is bullying?
2. What do bullies usually do to other people?
3. What is the purpose of bullying?
4. How many types of bullying are there?
5. What differentiates one type of bullying from another?
6. What are the effects of bullying?
7. Which do you think is the most damaging kind of bullying?
8. Why do the bullied teens fantasize of attacking the bullies?
9. Why do the bullied teens seek for support to their classmates in retaliating the bullying instead of doing it themselves?
10. How can retaliation cause heartbreak?
11. What is the author’s purpose in writing this article?