Pre-Intermediate Level >> Speaking and Conversation Materials/Discussion Starters >> Partly a vocabulary activity, partly as a discussion-starter. Students classify words depending on what "age" they belong to.
The Ages of Man
Pre-Intermediate
Place these words into the correct box below.
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pension retire marriage have children fall in love university disco acne drive a car lazy fat milk teeth crawl generous moody play |
Pampers coca cola wine long hair grey hair beard high heel shoes Big Brother Britney Spears learn to walk beer optimistic Phil Collins smoke kiss buy a house |
| Baby | Child |
| Teenager | Twenties & Thirties |
| Middle Age | Elderly |
Questions:
- how different were your answers to the other students in the class? Why?
- do you think you will be like your parents when you are their age?
- would you like to be?
- how do young children and the elderly act similarly?
- do you think we act too seriously sometimes?
