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English Vocabulary Exercises for B1 – Ages and stages

7 esercizi

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
Exercise image 1
  • 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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    • 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

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