Level 2: Pre-Intermediate >> 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

Place these words into the correct box below.

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?
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