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1A Ages and stages

1 Complete the sentences with the words below.

adult ​centenarian ​elderly ​infant ​middle-aged ​teens ​toddler ​twenties ​young child

1 My brother is thirteen months old and he’s learning how to walk. He’s a  .
2 Last year I was still in my  , but now I’m 30 years old.
3 No children are allowed in this shop without an  .
4 It is my grandmother’s 100th birthday today. She’s now a  !
5 Her new baby is just four weeks old. He’s an  .
6 Young people between the ages of thirteen and nineteen are in their  .
7 Her aunt is quite  . She’s 86.
8 People aged between 40 and 60 are sometimes called  .
9 When he was a – about seven years old – he was scared of dogs.

2 Choose the correct words to complete the article.

Beginnings: celebrities talk about their parents


Champion surfer and star of Surfing Lives
Nicole Treacher tells us about her mother
My mother grew 1 up / down in a small village near Toulouse in France. Her parents split
away / up when she was just five years old and after that she was brought 3up / in by her
2 

father. In 1986, when she was sixteen, she 4 left / moved home and went to university in London.
She studied languages and 5 got / had her first job, working as a translator in London, in 1990.
Two years later, her grandmother passed 6 away / up and my mother 7 retired / inherited her
house in France. She decided to move back to France and 8settle / start her own business.
  

In 1995, my mother met a tall, handsome Australian. They 9 got / fell in love and 10 got / went
engaged just two months after they first met. In 1998, they 11 changed / emigrated to Australia
and decided to 12 start / get a family. And I was born in 2000!

3 SPEAKING   Work in pairs. Play ‘Guess the Celebrity’. Then swap roles.
Student A  Think of a famous person. Be prepared to
answer questions about: Is the person a man?
•• the person’s age.
•• key events from the person’s life. Yes, he is.
You can only answer Yes or No to the questions.
Student B  Try to guess who your partner is thinking of. Is he in his 20s?
Ask yes/no questions about:
•• their age.
•• their key life events. No, he isn’t.

Was he brought up in the UK?

Yes, he was.

Solutions Third Edition Intermediate photocopiable © Oxford University Press


 1A  Ages and stages
Aims: To review words for stages of life and life events and
use the target language to describe significant events in
someone’s life.
Time: 10–15 minutes
Materials: One handout for each student

Exercise 1
• Give each student a handout and ask them to do
exercise 1. Give them time to read the sentences and
choose the best word to complete each one.
• Check answers with the class and focus on the correct
pronunciation for each word.
KEY
1 toddler
2 twenties
3 adult
4 centenarian
5 infant
6 teens
7 elderly
8 middle-aged
9 young child

Exercise 2
• Students choose the correct words to complete a short
article. Tell them to read through the whole article first,
to get an idea of the general meaning. They should then
read it again and do the exercise. Remind them that they
should look carefully at the words and sentences before
and after each gap.
• Check answers with the class by asking different
students to read out a completed sentence in turn.
KEY
1  up  ​2  up  ​3  up  ​4  left  ​5  got  ​6  away  ​
7  inherited  ​8  start  ​9  fell  ​10  got  ​11  emigrated  ​
12  start

Exercise 3
• Students work in pairs to play the game. Point out to
Student As that they should choose a celebrity about
whom they know some basic facts. You could first
brainstorm a list of popular celebrities on the board
and get students to choose from this list. Remind
Student Bs that they can only ask yes/no questions. Ask
two students to read out the example dialogue first.
Students then continue to work in pairs. When they have
finished, they can swap roles.

Solutions Third Edition Intermediate photocopiable © Oxford University Press

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