U NI T

TEENAGERS AND
2 SEXUAL MATTERS

Grade-level Indicators:
1. Analyse the factors influencing attitudes about sexual affairs. (HP2.1 Gr 8/1)
2. Analyse the problems and the effects of having sexual intercourse at school age.
(HP2.1 Gr 8/2)
3. Explain the methods of self-protection and avoid sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS
and unwanted pregnancy. (HP2.1 Gr 8/3)
4. Explain the importance of gender equality and conduct themselves appropriately.
(HP2.1 Gr 8/4)
Learning Area:
1. Factors Influencing Attitudes about Sexual Matters
1.1 Family 1.2 Culture
1.3 Friends 1.4 Media
2. Problems and Effects of Having Sexual Intercourse at School Age
2.1 Problem from Having Sexual Intercourse at School Age
2.2 Methods of Self-Protection to Avoid Sexually Transmitted Diseases, AIDS and
Unwanted Pregnancy
3. The Gender Equality and Behaving Appropriately
3.1 The Gender equality 3.2 Conducting Oneself Appropriately
Basic Concepts:
Teenagers have fast sexual changes that cause them to feel interested in the
opposite sex. If teenagers act inappropriately or have bad attitudes towards sex, it will have
a bad effect. Therefore, teenagers should learn about sex and self-protection in order to
adapt and behave appropriately and haved a beautiful life in both the present and future.

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 Factors Influencing Attitudes about Sexual Matters

When becoming teenagers, the Estrogen hormone in females and Testosterone

hormone in males cause teenagers to have sexual feelings. There are mental and
emotional changes by having special feeling and feeling interested in the opposite sex
and also conducting sexual behaviours differently.

1. Family
The attitude towards sex comes from childhood, parenting teaching and behaviours
of parents towards sex. For example, some parents do not talk to their children about
sex. If children are interested in sex, they will be punished which causes children to have
a bad attitude and think that sex is not appropriate. When these children grow up, they
might have sexual problems. Thus, family should teach about sex correctly, exchange
opinions including providing facts about sex. This will help children understand the nature
of sex and conduct themselves appropriately.

2. Culture
The change of society and technology that can easily communicate causes
teenagers to receive cultures from other countries, especially western culture that
influences the attitude towards sex, such as touching, kissing and having sexual
relationships before appropriate time. Teenagers
should carefully consider and accept only cultures that
are suitable to Thai society in order to prevent problems
and bad effects towards oneself and family.

3. Friend
A friend is important for teenagers. If the
teenagers associate with bad friends, they tend to
behave badly. Besides, friends and seniors also
influences teenagers’ behaviours. Sometimes, seniors Teenagers should behave appropriately
when they are in public. Do not hold
can persuade teenagers to do bad things. Therefore, hands or hug each other.

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teenagers should associate with the senior who has good habits, has their own opinion,
and be able to think differently from friends if something is not appropriate especially the
value of having sex.

4. Media
There are various kinds of inappropriate media which can
access to teenagers quickly, such as comics and novels that
have a sexual picture and story, the Internet that has porn
pictures, loading video clips through mobile phone, and
computer games that have violence and sexual matter. If the
teenager receives information from inappropriate media, it will
affect the attitude about sex. Therefore, teenagers should
receive information from appropriate media that provides
knowledge and ideas for living. Mobile phone is the
technology that easily
accesses to teenagers.

Activity 1 Factors Influencing Attitudes about Sexual Matters

1. Read the following situations, analyse the factors influencing attitudes about
sexual matters and the effect, then write the information in mind mapping.
(6 marks)
Example
Factors influencing
attitudes about sexual Situation Obsessing with sex
matters Surfing pornographic Effect and imitating
The Internet websites and watching behaviour
pornographic video clip

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 1.1
Factors influencing
attitudes about sexual
matters Situation Effect
Hanging out with opposite
sex friends

1.2
Factors influencing
attitudes about sexual Situation
matters Effect
Dressing inappropriately
and hanging out at night

1.3
Factors influencing
attitudes about sexual
matters Situation Effect
Not allowing to talk
about sex

2. Analyse the situations, write information down in mind mapping and answer the
questions. (10 marks: 5 marks = mind mapping, 5 marks = answering questions)

Situation 1
Male and female students make
an appointment to do the project. They
surf the Internet and find websites
with sexual matters. After that, they
have a sexual relationship until the girl
is pregnant and must leave the school.
Situation 2
Male and female students make an
appointment to do the project. They surf
the Internet and find websites with sexual
matters. They immediately close the
website and go outside to do the
homework until the homework is done.

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 Situation 1 Situation 2

Difference Difference
Similarity

2.1 What is the factor affecting both situations towards sexual attitude? (1 mark)

2.2 Which situation will you choose? Why? (2 marks)

2.3 What can you do to have good attitudes towards sexual matters? (2 marks)

Activity for enduring understanding

Summarise the factors influencing attitudes about sexual matters. (5 marks)

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 Problems and Effects of Having Sexual Intercourse
at School Age
When becoming teenagers, teenagers start to have sexual feelings because of the
readiness of body and sensitive emotions. This can lead to sexual intercourse at school
age and other problems.

1. Problem from Having Sexual Intercourse at School Age

1.1 Health Factor
1) Unwanted pregnancy means being pregnant when a person is not ready.
This can lead to abortion which is extremely dangerous because the person could get an
infection and die. Furthermore, pregnancy at school age causes the person to leave
school and become a problem of the family and unready marriage which can lead to
problems within the family and divorce.
2) Sexually transmitted diseases (STD)
● Syphilis is caused by bacteria infecting through having sex or touching

clothes of patients. The disease can be transmitted by wounds or tissue organs. Syphilis
is a severe disease and leads to other complications and disability. Moreover, Syphilis can
be transmitted through the fetus and causes the fetus to be disabled and die.
● Gonorrhea is caused by bacteria. For male, after infecting for 2–7 days,

the patient will feel itching while urinating and will fester from urethra. For women, there
is no symptom showing, instead, women will be disease vectors. If the infection continues
spreading, men can be sterile as well as women that can be sterile. If the infection spreads
through vessels, the patient can have arthritis and heart disease. The disease can spread
from the mother to the newborn during birth which causes the newborn to be blind.
3) AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is caused by the virus
called HIV (Human Immunedeficiency Virus). The disease causes the immune system in
the body to be weak and lead to getting other diseases.
The symptoms when receiving HIV can be separated into 3 stages as
follows:

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 ● Stage 1 The virus has been found, but there is no symptom of sickness.
● Stage 2 The symptom relates to AIDS, which is having fever for more

than 3 months, losing 4–5 kg of weight or more than 20% of the body’s weight for more
than 2 months, being sick of food, lymph node enlarging, sweating more than usual,
having no strength on either one arm or one leg, diarrhea for more than 1 month without
any causes.
● Stage 3 It is the last stage of full AIDS. The immune system is destroyed

causing the infection of organs and diseases, such as cancer, Tuberculosis, lung damage
and brain damage.
1.2 Mental Factor
It causes embarrassment, fear, nervousness, disappointment and misery which
can cause the patient to lose focus on studying and suicide because of stress.
1.3 Social Factor
Since teenagers are not ready and do not have responsibility in taking care
of the family, it becomes a problem for parents and may lead to the child abandoning
problem which, later, will become the problem of society. The unwanted child may lack
of quality and love. Moreover, the country will also lose the efficient human resource in
developing the country.

2. Methods of Self-Protection to Avoid Sexually

Transmitted Diseases, AIDS and Unwanted Pregnancy
2.1 Analysing sexual risky situations
The sexual risk situations, such as rape, being deceive have sexual intercourse,
and flirting to have sexual intercourse can be analysed as follows:
1) Be conscious and use reasons to consider the negative effects.
2) Think ahead of the unexpected situation including finding ways to solve it.
3) Do not trust anyone even those who are friends or acquaintances. If you
are with someone, observe his/her behaviours thoroughly.
2.2 Avoiding risky situations
When analysing the situation and turning out to be risky, we need to avoid the
situation and reject with a serious tone.

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 2.3 Avoiding sexual inciting situations
such as dressing inappropriately, uncovering parts of the body, watching media
that incites sexual feeling and using drugs which can cause the lack of consciousness
and lead to sexual intercourse.
2.4 Using condoms
It is the final decision. When analysing the situation and there is no way to
avoid it, a condom should be used in order to prevent unwanted prcgnancy and other
problems.

Activity 2 Problem from Having Sexual Intercourse at School Age

1. Analyse the following news and answer the questions. (4 marks)

The dead body of a baby was found. The police came to investigate and
found more than 2,000 dead bodies of the babies. Mostly, the age of the babies
was during 4–8 months and their bodies were apart. We can assume that those
dead babies came from the illegal abortion in Bangkok.

1.1 According to the news, what happened? (1 mark)

1.2 What is the problem of this situation? (1 mark)

1.3 How does this problem affect society? (2 marks)

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2. Put the letter in front of the sentences. (10 marks)
A. AIDS B. Syphilis C. Gonorrhea D. Abortion
2.1 Bleeding to death
2.1 Fester from urethra
2.3 Caused by HIV
2.4 Causes important organs to be disordered
2.5 If infecting during the pregnancy, the newborn can be blind.
2.6 Immune system deficiency
2.7 Touching patient’s cloth can lead to the disease.
2.8 Caused by unwanted pregnancy
2.9 Unmorality, which leads to stress and misery
2.10 Must take anti-virus because there is no cure.
3. Analyse the problem and effect of having sexual intercourse at school age, then
record the information in the table and answer the questions. (10 marks)

Effect
Problem
Oneself Family Society World
Unwanted
pregnancy

Sexually
transmitted
diseases

Having AIDS

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 3.1 How can you solve the problem of having sexual intercourse at school
age?

3.2 If the problem of having sexual intercourse at school age decreases, what is
the positive effect towards the world?

4. Separate into groups. Each group searches for one news story regarding
sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS or unwanted pregnancy, then analyse the
cause and the solution regarding self-protection in mind-mapping. (10 marks)

News

Cause

Solution

Activity for enduring understanding

Summarise the problem and effect regarding having sexual intercourse at school age.
(5 marks)

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 The Gender Equality and Behaving Appropriately

1. The Gender Equality

The problem of inequality between man and woman leads to identifying the equal
right in the constitution B.E. 2550, article 30 that:
“All persons are equal and shall enjoy equal
protection under the law. Man and woman shall
enjoy equal rights. Unjust discrimination against
a person on the grounds of the difference in
origin, race, language, sex, age, physical or health
condition, personal status, economic or social
standing, religious belief, education or Constitutional
Man and woman have an equal
right to receive education. political views shall not be permitted.”

Besides, identifying in Thai constitution and laws from many countries, there is a
campaign in order to claim right for women so that they can receive social equality. The
campaign for women’s right causes women to gain rights as follows:
1.1 Allowing pregnant women to continue studying in order to gain knowledge
and find jobs in the future
1.2 Providing opportunity for women to study at higher levels which leads
to official employment in order to increase economic budget and gain money for oneself
and family
1.3 Promoting reproduction and
women,s right so that women can set the
number of her own children.
1.4 Supporting political participation
which is the basis of sexual equality. Sexual
violence causes the women’s role to decrease.
It is the obstacle that causes women to fail in
life because they cannot use their efficiency Women receive education which causes
completely. them to make money just like men.

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2. Conducting Oneself Appropriately
2.1 Conducting oneself towards the same sex means when men to men and
women to women build a relationship with each other by saying nice words, acting
friendly, helping each other, doing good things and being kind to each other.
2.2 Conducting oneself towards the opposite sex means when men and
women build a relationship with each other. In Thai society, men and women are not
allowed to be close to each other because it can lead to sexual intercourse. Also, men
should give respect to women and women should give respect to themselves. Women
should not allow men to be close or touch their bodies in order to prevent having sexual
intercourse before an appropriate time.

Activity 3 The Gender Equality and Behaving Appropriately

1. Analyse the picture and answer the questions. (5 marks)

1.1 How does the picture relate to sexual equality?

(3 marks)

Political woman

1.2 What is the positive effect of sexual equality? (1 mark)

1.3 What will happen if we do not have sexual equality? (1 mark)

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2. Provide ways of good behaviour with both the same sex and opposite sex, then
explain the effect in mind mapping. (10 marks)

Gender

Effect Don’t Conducting towards Effect

take the same sex Take
action action

Effect Don’t Conducting towards Effect

take the same sex Take
action action

Activity for enduring understanding

Summarise the gender equality and behaving appropriately. (5 marks)

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 Unit TEST Marks
Earned:
Darken the circle in front of the correct answers. Full Marks: 10
1. Which western culture shows good attitude towards sex?
1 Dating 2 Hugging in public
3 Being homosexual 4 Consulting sexual problems with family
2. Which media influences the attitude towards sex in teenagers the most?
1 Newspaper 2 Television
3 Game 4 Radio
3. Which effect regarding sexual intercourse at school age is the worst?
1 Having HIV
2 Syphilis
3 Marriage
4 Pregnancy
4. How does being pregnant at school age affect the family?
1 Needing to move away and live somewhere else
2 Receiving more family members
3 Increasing family’s expense
4 Decreasing income of the family
5. Which of the following is a risk for sexual intercourse at school age?
1 Eating lunch together at school
2 Doing homework together in the classroom
3 Walking home together
4 Lying together on the bed
6. Which saying helps prevent sexually transmitted diseases?
1 Lady’s man
2 Quick-tempered
3 Respecting oneself
4 Flirting with others

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 7. If your friend wants you to watch a pornographic movie, what should you say?
1 “I will not watch because it is not appropriate for our age.”
2 “Not too long because I need to go home hurry.”
3 “I don’t want to watch, I am not in the mood.”
4 “What is the name of the movie, is it fun?”
8. Which of the following helps prevent unwanted pregnancy problems?
1 Taking birth control pill every month
2 Avoiding hanging out with friends at night
3 Keeping body clean
4 Not having opposite sex friends
9. What is the positive effect of gender equality regarding education?
1 Economy of the country grows.
2 Reducing the population
3 Having efficient human resource to develop the country
4 Having more tourists coming to the country
10. What is the benefit of good behaviour?
1 Preventing sexual problems
2 Having a lot of friends who are the opposite sex
3 Building fame to family
4 Receiving the prize as student’s model

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 Evaluation form based on
Grade-level Indicators
UNIT 2 TEENAGERS AND SEXUAL MATTERS
Measurement Score
Grade-level Indicators and evaluation of learning Full Earned
1. Analyse the factors influencing 1. Activity 1 Item 1 6
attitudes about sexual 2. Activity 1 Item 2 (Student’s work) 10
affairs. (HP2.1 Gr 8/1) 3. Activity for enduring understanding 5
2. Analyse the problems and 4. Activity 2 Item 1 4
the effects of having sexual 5. Activity 2 Item 2 10
intercourse at school age. 6. Activity 2 Item 3 (Student’s work) 10
(HP2.1 Gr 8/2) 7. Activity 2 Item 4 (Student’s work) 10
3. Explain the methods of 8. Activity for enduring understanding 5
self-protection and avoid 9. Activity 3 Item 1 5
sexually transmitted 10. Activity 3 Item 2 (Student’s work) 10
diseases, AIDS and 11. Activity for enduring understanding 5
unwanted pregnancy. 12. UNIT TEST 10
(HP2.1 Gr 8/3)
4. Explain the importance of
gender equality and
conduct themselves
appropriately.
(HP2.1 Gr 8/4)
Total 90

Scoring Criteria Evaluation Result

Score Quality 4 (Very good) 3 (Good)
72 - 90 4 (Very good) 2 (Fair) 1 (Pass)
63 - 71 3 (Good) 0 (Not pass)
54 - 62 2 (Fair)
45 - 53 1 (Pass) Name Assessor
0 - 44 0 (Not pass) Date

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 UNIT 2
VOCABULARY

Estrogen เอสโทรเจน (ฮอร์โมนเพศหญิงส่วนใหญ่

สร้างจากฟอลลิเคิลในรังไข่ ฮอร์โมนนี้
มีหน้าที่สำ�คัญในการควบคุมลักษณะเพศหญิง)
Testosterone เทสโทสเทอโรน (ฮอร์โมนเพศชายสร้างจาก
อัณฑะ ทำ�หน้าที่ควบคุมลักษณะเพศชาย)
Pregnant มีครรภ์ ตั้งครรภ์
Sexually Transmitted Diseases โรคติดต่อทางเพศสัมพันธ์ (กามโรค)
Syphilis ซิฟิลิส กามโรค
Gonorrhea โรคหนองใน
AIDS โรคเอดส์
Inequality ภาวะไม่เท่ากัน
Equal right ความเสมอภาค เท่าเทียมกัน

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