Life Stages / Getting old

Vocabulary

1. Click here to learn some vocabulary to talk about the different stages of life.

2. Watch this video and learn to talk about the signs of aging.



Listening

1. Here there's an intermediate level cloze test activity about the topic of getting older and happier. You should listen to it just once. 

2. In this unit you’ll develop your listening skills around the topic of age. You’ll practise listening to opinions as well as getting general and detailed information, while people discuss their attitudes to age and getting older. You’ll also be able to review ways of describing ages.

The listening includes the questions and answers for the different tasks.

3. Click here and listen to a podcast about "aging population". You can also get the script. 



Old people are rich :
they have silver in their hair,
gold in their teeth,
stones in their kidneys,
steel in their knees, 
lead in their feet,
iron in their knuckles,
sugar in their blood,
and gas in their stomach.