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A new-born baby

Comprehension check | TOPICAL VOCABULARY | Pre-listening | Secrets of the Oldest Man in the World | Sweet Childhood | Keep Anger under Control | Rebels without a Pause | He is a giant (of a man) | From the Neck up | Advertisements |


Ten months old

Nearly eighteen months old

A toddler

Four next birthday

Coming up to school age

at infant’s school

A schoolgirl

What ages are your children?

they are of the same age

all those in the 9-11 age group

he had a happy childhood

he’s a nice kid

A teenager

In his youth

the agonies of adolescence

still a minor, legally speaking

A juvenile delinquent

she is still in her teens

congratulations on your coming of age

A major

A call-up age

you have to be over 21

Miss June Hoskins, aged 22

In his mid-twenties

In his prime

at the age of 26 she got married

by the age of 26 she had lived in different countries

she is under 20

An adult

A grown-up

don’t be so childish

he’s turned thirty

Thirtyish

not a youngster any more

My aunt is 35 but she is taken for 25

36 years of age

I guess his age is 30

Not as young as she was

Approaching middle-age

the Under 40s Social Club

On the wrong side of forty

my mother is 5 years my father’s junior

he looks young/old for his age

he looks his age

beginning to look his age

An ageing playboy

beginning to feel her age

I prefer mature people

she’s still got her girlish sense of humour

she is ageless

In his late forties

he is long past 40

she’s older than she looks

Nervous people age fast

still playing his schoolboy tricks

In her early fifties

he’s aged a lot lately

he’s getting on (in years)

one of the older generation

I’m twice your age, young man

the same age as her husband

he looks much older than 50

Heading for retirement

he’s over the hill

Sunday Excursion for the Over 60s

growing old gracefully

a pensioner (an old age pensioner, OAP)

he’s coming up to seventy

he bears age well

he is ageing well

you are old enough to know better

you are as old as you feel

An elderly lady

A septuagenarian

Help the Aged

she’s 70, but she looks not a day older than 60

she’s still going strong

In her seventy-fifth year

his elder brother’s death

his eldest sister’s death

Becoming senile

Old age comes to all of us

he outlived his wife by (for) 5 years

his eightieth birthday

An octogenarian

I’m four times your age

he is of long-living stock / a long liver

and his wife was of short-living stock

he is noted for longevity

he’s as old as the hills

In her second childhood

he’s got one foot in the grave

he’ll soon be pushing up the daisies

she’s kicked the bucket

she’s passed away / on

 

Exercise 1

Fill in the prepositions where necessary:


1. … the wrong side of forty.

2.... his prime.

3.... the age of 40.

4. approaching... 60.

5.... his youth.

6. coming... age.

7. coming...... 50.

8. heading... retirement.

9.... her second childhood.

10. “Life begins... forty”.

11. he is … short-living stock.

12. he is 8 years … my mother’s senior.


 

Speaking

What are the right ages for doing the following activities?


· Be responsible for a crime

· Buy a pet

· Buy cigarettes

· Come home at whatever time you want

· Drink alcohol in a public bar

· Drive

· Have a child

· Marry with parents’ consent

· Own a gun

· Vote


 

Exercise 2

Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below:

 

pregnant born maternity ward midwife prams deliver call parents expecting cots crawl

 

When a woman is a) _______ a baby, we say that she is b) ___________. Babies are c) _______ either at home or in the d) _________ of a hospital. It is the job of a doctor or a e) _________ to f) ________ new babies. The proud g) __________ must soon decide what to h) ________ the child. For the first six months of their lives most babies are taken out in i) _______ and sleep in j) _________. At eight months or so they learn to k) _______ along the floor and they can usually walk soon after their first birthday.

 

Speaking

Match the sentences with the pictures below. Discuss the pictures with your class. How do these customs differ in your native country?

1. A pregnant woman in the USA usually goes to an obstetrician once a month for a prenatal checkup.

2. Stores sell many attractive maternity clothes.

3. Friends of the mother-to-be often give her a baby shower.

4. Many hospitals allow a husband to stay with his wife in the delivery room.

5. The new father hands out cigars to everyone he sees; pink ribbon on the cigar for a girl, blue ribbon on the cigar for a boy.

 

Exercise 3

Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below:

 

hobbies development extroverts adult relationships daydream adults introverts idolize teens

 

Children live in their own world, from which a) ________ are largely excluded. The b) _______ world is strange and exciting to them. They have c) ________ of success, adventure, romance and fame. They d) _______ their big brothers and sisters, pop singers or film stars. e) ________ such as stamp-collecting, music or dancing are important to them. Children, especially when they are in their f) _______, go through a physical and emotional g) ________ which can be frightening. Their characters also begin to develop. Some adolescents are h) ________ and keep themselves to themselves, while others are i) _________ and like to share their thoughts and form j) ___________ with other people. It’s a wonderful, terrible time.

 

Speaking

Discuss the following points in pairs:

1. How has your relationship with your parents and other members of your family changed as you have grown older?

2. At which age would you most like to stop the world for ten years so you could enjoy it? Has that age passed or is it still to come?

3. Some people say there are a lot of similarities between childhood and old age. Do you agree?

4. Do you think young people are growing up faster these days? If so, give examples.

5. Do you agree or partly agree with the saying “ Life begins at forty”?

 

Role play

Student A: You are a psychiatrist, trying to help aged people solve their problems.

Student B: You are an old person suffering from different problems like health, lack of communication, etc.

 

Exercise 4

Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Моя двоюрідна тітка виглядає на свої роки, її волосся сивіє і вона змушена фарбувати його.

2. Містеру Лі трохи більше сорока – він повільно старіє.

3. Цей довгожитель дуже змінився за останні роки, тому що він відчував, що скоро помре.

4. Дядьку Мету далеко за 40, але він не виглядає і не почувається на свій вік.

5. Бред був одного зі мною віку, але йому подобалось спілкуватися із зрілими людьми.

6. Ця літня жінка все ще бадьора і, незважаючи на свій похилий вік, має дівоче почуття гумору.

7. Моєму батькові під 50 і він на 6 років старший за маму. Вони одружилися, коли їм обом було за двадцять.

8. Тім Беррі одружився в розквіті сил, коли йому було приблизно 45.

9. - Мої найкращі побажання з твоїм повноліттям. - Дякую, та я все ще почуваюсь неповнолітнім.

10. Місіс Дарк з літами стала старечою, пережила “друге дитинство” ї, коли їй виповнилось 80 років, померла.

11. Моєму двоюрідному діду 70 років, а його дружина вдвічі молодша за нього.

12. Не дивлячись на свій вісімдесятирічний вік, наша бабуся ще тримається і навіть допомагає доглядати новонароджену дитину.

 

& Reading

This is an extract from a Shakespeare play “ As You Like It ”. It is a famous speech, known as “ The seven ages of man ”, by character called Jacques. Read it and say what the seven ages that Jacques describes are. The glossary will help you.

 


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