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I can talk about the different stages of people's lives.
1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Can you answer this famous riddle from Sophocles' play Oedipus the King? Explain your answer.
'What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three in the evening?'
2🎧1.07 VOCABULARY Number the stages of life in the order that people reach them. Then listen and check.
Stages of life
be an adult
be a centenarian
be an infant
be a toddler
be a young child
be elderly
be in your teens
be in your twenties
be middle-aged
3 Match some of the phrases in exercise 2 with the pictures below of the woman at different stages of her life.
In picture A, she's an infant.
4 VOCABULARY Check the meaning of the life events below. At what age are they most likely to happen, do you think? Put them in groups A-E. Compare your answers with your partner's. Do you agree?
| Life events | be born be brought up (by) | become a grandparent | ||
| buy a house or flat | emigrate | fall in love | get divorced | get engaged |
| get married | get your first job | go to university | grow up | |
| have a change of career | inherit (money, a house, etc.) | learn to drive | ||
| leave home | leave school | move (house) | pass away | retire |
| settle down | split up | start a business | start a family | start school |
A Before you are 20____________________________________________________
B From 20 to 40_______________________________________________________
C From 40 to 60_______________________________________________________
D Over 60_____________________________________________________________
E At any age___________________________________________________________
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5 🎧1.08 Listen to four people talking about their backgrounds and their families. Circle the correct answers (a-c).
1 Bilal's dad
a was born in the UK.
b is going to have a change of career.
c wants to study law.
2 Sandra's family
a have owned a number of farms.
b sold the first farm and bought a bigger one.
c have owned the same farm for many years.
3 Charlotte's mum
a brought up her daughter in France.
b isn't married.
c has been married twice.
4 Callum's parents
a inherited and ran a successful family business.
b didn't have a good education.
c left Britain many years ago.
6 🎧1.08 Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs below. Then listen again and check.
| be | buy | emigrate | fall | get | get | grow up |
| leave | move | not go | not leave | not retire | start | |
1. My grandparents_______________ from Pakistan in the 1960s.
2. She_______________ home until last summer, she_______________ when married.
3. I_______________ in the village where my family has lived for generations.
4. They managed to save quite a bit of money and eventually some land. a small farmhouse with
5. They_______________ in love, _______________engaged after a week and were married a month later.
6. I _______________brought up by my mum after she back to the UK.
7. They_______________ school at sixteen and_______________ to university.
8. They_______________ a successful business and _______________until they were in their seventies.
→ Vocabulary Builder Noun plural forms: page 108
7 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Ask and answer about your family and your ancestors. Give extra information where you can.
1 How long has your family lived in this city / town?
2 Did any of them move from another part of Viet Nam? From where? When?
3 Did any of your ancestors or members of your family emigrate to another country? Where to? When?
4 Are you related to anyone famous? If so, who?
How long has your family lived in this city / town?
We've been here for about ten years. Before that we lived in Long An.
