Ages and Stages
09.04.2012 | Блог

Do you know who a toddler is? What is adolescence and how old is a middle-aged person? If not, then find it out here!

Do you know who a toddler is? What is adolescence and how old is a middle-aged person? If not, then find it out here!

Real age is the one that you feel inside.

        Ages                   Stages

 

0-1 approximately – baby

 1-2    –   a toddler

2-12 approximately – child – this period is your childhood

13-17 approx. – teenager (14 = early teens) – adolescence

18 +   – an adult 

20-29  – in your twenties (24-26 = mid-twenties)

30-39  – in your thirties (38 = late thirties)

40 +    – people are middle-aged

60 or 65 – retirement (=when people stop work; they are retired 

75 +    –  old age (you can describe people as elderly)

 

EXERCISE

What stage of life are these people at?

1.     Paul isn’t two yet, so he’s still a …………………….

2.     Albert was a bus driver for 40 years but stopped work two years ago, so he’s now …………………….

3.     Susan is 25, so she is in her …………………….

4.     Caroline is 48 this years, so she is in her ………………

5.     Ron is 33 and his wife is 32, so they are both in their ………………

6.     Joan is 75 this year, so she is quite …………………….

7.     Jason was born six weeks ago, so he’s a ………………

8.     Leyla is 13 this year, so she’ll soon be a ………………

9.     Ravi is 18 this year, so legally he becomes an ………..

10.       15 is often a difficult age for boys going through …………………

Check the answers at the bottom of the page.

 

Childhood and adolescence

Sam was born in Scotland but when he was two, his father got a new job in Los-Angeles, and he grew up in California. He went to university at 19 where …

Romance

… he met Susan. He went out with her (= she was his girlfriend; he was her boyfriend) for three years, but towards the end they had lots of rows (= arguments) and finally they split up (= separated/ended their relationship). In his mid-twenties he met Marie. They fell in loveand …

Marriage

… got married within six months. One year later she got pregnant and they had their first child, a boy. But the marriage was not a success. Sam left two years afterwards and they got divorced (= the marriage ended officially). Four years later, Marie remarried (= got married again), and she is now expecting a second baby (= she’s pregnant).

 

Answers:

1. toddler; 2. retired; 3. (mid-) twenties; 4. (late) forties; 5. (early) thirties;  6. elderly/old; 7. baby; 8. teenager; 9. adult; 10. adolescence.