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B1

English Vocabulary Exercises for B1 – Ages and stages

7 exercices

1. Label the pictures with the life stages below.

  • centenarian elderly infant in his / her teens
  • in his / her twenties middle-aged toddler young child
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  • 1)
    She’s a
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  • 2)
    He’s
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  • 3)
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  • 4)
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  • 5)
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  • 6)
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    • 2. Complete the life events with the words below. Use all the words.

    • be be emigrate fall get get go inherit
    • learn move split start
    • 1)
      born
    • 2)
      a business
    • 3)
      in love
    • 4)
      (money, etc.)
    • 5)
      to drive
    • 6)
      up
    • 7)
      to university
    • 8)
      house
    • 9)
      your first job
    • 10)
      engaged
    • 11)
      brought up (by)
    • 12)
      from abroad
    • away a change of career divorced down
    • a)
      family from work a grandparent home
    • a)
      house or flat married school school up
    • 13)
      get
    • 14)
      leave
    • 15)
      start
    • 16)
      settle
    • 17)
      leave
    • 18)
      start
    • 19)
      have
    • 20)
      become
    • 21)
      grow
    • 22)
      pass
    • 23)
      buy
    • 24)
      get
    • 25)
      retire

    3. Write six true sentences about you or members of your family using different phrases from exercise 2.

    • My grandad retired when he was in his sixties.
    • 1)
    • 2)
    • 3)
    • 4)
    • 5)
    • 6)

    4. Listen to a teenage girl asking people in the street about the best age to do certain things in life. Complete the table.

    Audio
    Best age to leave home:
    1   Woman
    Best age to learn to drive:
    2   Girl
    Best age to start a family:
    3   Boy
    Best age to buy a house or flat:
    4   Girl

    Extra exercises

    5. Rewrite the sentences with the words below.

    • a)
      centenarian an infant in (your) teens in (your) twenties
    • middle-aged a toddler a young child
    • 1)
      My niece is only four months old.
    • 2)
      My little brother is six.
    • 3)
      My great-grandfather is over a hundred.
    • 4)
      My cousin Jack is fifteen.
    • 5)
      My mother is fifty next year.
    • 6)
      My nephew is two years old.
    • 7)
      My sister was twenty-three on her last birthday.

    6. Complete each pair of life events with a suitable verb.

    • 1)
      born / brought up
    • 2)
      a flat / a house
    • 3)
      home / school
    • 4)
      married / engaged
    • 5)
      a business / a family
    • 6)
      a house / money

    7. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs below.

    • emigrate grow up move pass away retire settle down
    • 1)
      My grandfather is in his seventies, but he has no plans to from his job.
    • 2)
      I missed my friends terribly when we house.
    • 3)
      They’re thinking of leaving the UK. They’d like to to Australia.
    • 4)
      My best friend in France, so she’s bilingual.
    • 5)
      When I leave university, I want to go travelling before I and have a family.
    • 6)
      Tom’s grandmother is ill in hospital. He’ll be extremely upset if she

    Comment Pratiquer

    1. 1Lisez chaque question attentivement
    2. 2Écrivez votre réponse ou sélectionnez l'option correcte
    3. 3Cliquez sur 'Afficher la Réponse' pour vérifier votre travail
    4. 4Examinez les erreurs et essayez des exercices similaires
    5. 5Passez à l'exercice suivant lorsque vous êtes prêt

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