Exercise 4. Match the following words with their definitions.

Exercise 3. Look at the table below. Then read the sentences and say what stage of life these people are at.

Exercise 2. Unscramble the following words.

Exercise 1. Prove that the sayings (quotes) have sense. Give examples from your own experience.

VOCABULARY PRACTICE

 

1. I don't care how poor a man is; if he has a family, he's rich. (Dan Wilcox)
2. It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. (Johann Schiller)

3. When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. (Joyce Brothers)

4. You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. (Desmond Tutu)

5. When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. (George Bernard Shaw)

6. In time of test, family is best. (Burmese Proverb)

7. The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. (Lee Iacocca)

8. If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin)

Example: horadhgmthner - _______________ answer: grandmother

 

1. rbthoer - _________________ ____ 2. othemr - _______________________

3. sesitr - _____________________ 4. necul - ________________________

5. aarndgfther - _____________________ 6. atnu - ________________________

7. nriachdid - ____________________ _ 8. father - ________________________

9. osn - ______________________ 10. agdtuehr - ________________________

11. fwie - ______________________ 12. cenie - ________________________

13. peermsotht - ______________________ 14. usospe - ________________________

15. reptans - ______________________ 16. bandhus - ________________________

17. pehwen - ______________________ 18. sno-ni-alw - ________________________

AGE STAGE
0 – 1approximately 1 – 2 2 – 12 approximately 13 – 17 approximately 18 + 20 – 29 30 – 39 40 + 60 or 65 75 + A baby A toddler A child – this period is your childhood A teenager(14 = early teens) An adult In your twenties (24 – 26 = mid-twenties) In your thirties (38 = late thirties) People are middle-aged Retirement (= when people stop work; they are retired) Old age (you can describe people as elderly)

1.Paul isn't two yet, so he's still a ……………………………….. toddler ………………………………………………

2.Albert was a bus driver for 40 years but stopped work two years ago, so he's now ……………………………..

3.Susan is 25, so she is in her......................................................................................................................

4.Caroline is 48 this year so she is now in her................. ……………………………………………………………..

5.Ron is 33 and his wife is 32, so they are both in their …………………………………………………………………

6. Joan is 75 this year, so she is quite........................ …………………………………………………………………

7.Jason was born six weeks ago, so he's a................... ……………………………………………………………..

8.Leyla is 13 this year, so she'll soon be a..................... ………………………………………………………………

9.Ravi is 18 this year, so legally he becomes an............. ………………………………………………………………

1015 is often a difficult age for boys going through......... ………………………………………………………………

 

1.An old friend 2.A close friend 3.A best friend 4.Classmates 5.Flatmates 6.Colleagues 7.Ex-girlfriend 8.Partner 9.Twins 10.An only child a)people you work with; b)a good friend, someone you like and trust; c)people you share a house / flat with, who are not your family; d)someone you have known for a long time; e)the one friend you feel closest to; f)two children born to one mother at the same time; g)the girlfriend you had a relationship with in the past; h)other people in your class; i)someone you live with, but do not get married; j)a child having no kin sisters or brothers;