The document is a vocabulary lesson that introduces words related to generations. It includes riddles to warm up vocabulary skills. Key vocabulary words introduced are centenarian, meaning a person who is 100 years old or more, and split up, meaning to stop having a relationship with somebody. The lesson also provides example sentences with the pronunciation and meaning of each new word. Later sections provide activities where learners match people to stages of life and list events that commonly happen at different generations.

2. Vocabulary
Unit 1:
GENERATIONS

3. WARM-UP
Exercise 1: Answer the riddles
below.

5. Read and
Answer
What has to be broken before you
can eat it?

6. Answer
An egg

11. Read and
Answer
I shave every day, but my
beard stays the same. What
am I?

12. Answer
I’m a barber

14. Read and
Answer
What is black when it’s clean and
white when it’s dirty?

15. Answer
It’s a chalkboard

17. Read and Answer
When you have it, you keep it.
When you share it, you don’t
have it anymore. What is it?

18. It’s a secret
Answer

20. Read and
Answer
‘What creature walks on
four legs in the
morning, two legs in the
afternoon, and three in
the evening?

21. Answer
It’s human being.

23. VOCABULARY
• split up (phr v) /splɪt ˈʌp /
to stop having a relationship with somebody
• toddler (n) /ˈtɒdlə(r)/
a child who has only recently learnt to walk
• centenarian (n) /ˌsentɪˈneəriən/
a person who is 100 years old or more

24. VOCABULARY
Form Pronunciation Meaning
1. centenarian (n) /ˌsentɪˈneəriən/ a person who is 100 years old or more
2. split up (phr v) /splɪt ˈʌp /
to stop having a relationship with
somebody
3. toddler (n) /ˈtɒdlə(r)/ a child who has only recently learnt to walk

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SUGGESTED ANSWERS:
1. Be an infant 2. Be a toddler 3. Be a young child 4. Be in your teens
5. Be an adult 6. Be in your twenties 7. Be middle-aged
8. Be elderly 9. Be a centenarian

26. A. She is an infant
B. She is a toddler
C. She is a young child
D. She is a teenager
E. She is in her twenties
F. She is middle-aged
G. She is an elderly
H. She is a centenarian

27. Before you are 20
Be born
Be brought up (by)
Become a grandparent
Buy a house or flat
Emigrate
Fall in love
Get divorced
Get engaged get your first job
Go to university
Grow up
Have a change of career
Inherit (money,
a house, etc…)
Learn to drive
Leave home
Leave school
Move (house)
Start a business
retire
Settle down
Split up
Start a family
Start school
Get married
Pass away

28. From 20 to 40
Become a grandparent
Emigrate
Buy a house or flat
Fall in love
Get divorced
Get engaged Get your first job
Have a change of career
Inherit (money,
a house, etc…)
Move (house)
Start a business
retire
Settle down
Split up
Start a family
Get married Pass away

29. From
40 to 60
Over 60 At any age
Become a grandparent
Emigrate
Fall in love
Get divorced
Have a change of career
Inherit (money,
a house, etc…)
Move (house)
Start a business
retire
Pass away

31. Be buy emigrate fall get get grow up
Leave move not go not leave not retire start
emigrated
didn’t leave
grew up
got
bought
fell got
was
moved
left
didn’t go
started
didn’t retire