1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Tell your partner about: 2 
VOCABULARY Listen. How old are the people being described? Choose from the stages of life below. Stages of life be an adult be a centenarian be an infant be a toddler be elderly be in your teens be middle-aged 3 Complete the questions with the prepositions below. You can use them more than once. about at by of to with At which age or ages do you think people are … 1 most obsessed ___ fashion? 2 curious ___ the world? 3 good ___ sport? 4 addicted ___ social media? 5 more sensitive ___ other people’s feelings? 6 unhappy ___ their financial situation? 7 shocked ___ young people’s behaviour? 8 aware ___ the environment? Vocabulary Builder Adjective + preposition: page 108 | 4 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Answer the questions in exercise 3. 5 VOCABULARY Complete the life events with the verbs below. become born fall get have learn leave pass settle start Life events: get married buy a house or flat emigrate be ____ be brought up (by) retire start a family ____ in love get divorced ____ engaged go to university grow up 
____ a change of career inherit (money, a house, etc.) ____ to drive ____ home leave school / university move (house) ____ away split up ____ down 
____ a business start school ____ a grandparent get your first job |  1 My brother ____ school at sixteen and got his first ____ four months later. However, when he was in his twenties, he decided he wanted to ____ to university and later had a change of ____. 2 My parents ____ in love when they were in their late thirties. They got ____ after three months and then ____married a month later! 3 We didn’t have to ____ a house because my dad ____ his parent’s house after they had sadly ____. 4 My dad ____ from Ireland in 1998. He met my mum and they ____ down in London where they ____ a family. 5 My mum’s parents ____ up when she was very young. They got ____ soon after. They both had to travel for their jobs so my mum was ____ by her aunt. 7 Complete the text with the correct form of the phrases in exercise 5. I was ____ born on 17 October 2001 in London, although my parents aren’t Londoners. My dad ____ from Ireland when he was a teenager and my mum, who is from Croatia, 
____ home after she had ____ university. My dad started a business and my mum got her first, and only, ____ in his company! Well, after a few months, they ____ in love, and six months later they ____ engaged. After they got 
____ they ____ to south-east London and ____ down in the neighbourhood of Greenwich, where they bought a ____, and I was the first one to come along! I’ve also got a brother and sister, and we’ve all been ____ up in the same house. What’s more, when my mum’s mum 
____ a grandmother, she decided to leave Croatia too and come and help my mum! | 8 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Describe events in your family life. Use phrases from exercises 2 and 5 to help you. I was born in a small town, and when I was twelve, we moved here. |
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