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
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?