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Unit summary 5 Years ahead CLIL p94
Language focus reference p103
Vocabulary • Uses of get
Vocabulary I can talk about different ages and life events. 30 – 49 years 5 70 – 100 years 8
Uses of get: get a bank account, THINK! Do you like being the age that you are now? At this age, many people are married. People are getting older. In 1900, the average life
get a boyfriend / girlfriend, get a degree, Why / Why not? According to scientists, if you get married, expectancy in Europe was forty-three. What is it now?
get a driving licence, get a job, get a new 1 Check the meaning of the phrases in the box. you’ll probably … . a About seventy
hobby, get a pension, get a phone, Decide in which age group you are most likely to a be happy b About eighty
get a social media account, get married, do each one. b die younger c About ninety
c live longer
get old, get rich 10 – 16 16 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50 50+
Lifestyle choices: earn money, enjoy get a bank account get a boyfriend / girlfriend 3 2.03 Watch or
get a degree get a driving licence
myself, get involved with a charity, have get a job get a new hobby get a pension 6 listen to five people
a family, have fun, look after yourself, get a phone get a social media account 50 – 59 years talking about their
opinions on different
make a million dollars, retire young, settle get married get old get rich People often become grandparents at ages. Which person
down, spend some time abroad, start up 3 this age. What is the record number of thinks they will get a
2.02 Do the quiz. Compare your answers
your own business, take some time out, 2 with a partner's. Then listen and check. 13 – 19 years grandchildren to one grandparent in good job?
the world?
take up a sport, tie yourself down, travel Most teenagers have got a social media a 99 b 140 c 247 Mitchell Emma Zara Joe Paul
around, waste time 1 account nowadays. How old do you
0 – 5 years usually need to be to get a social media KeY pHrases
account?
Language focus Which of these things can a Thirteen b Fourteen c Fifteen 7 Making predictions about the future
First conditional with if and unless children normally do before 60 – 79 years 1 Hopefully, I’ll . .
2 I’ll definitely
they’re five?
might vs. will a Get a new hobby When people get a pension, they often lead 3 I definitely won’t . .
4 I’m pretty sure that I’ll
will and be going to b Read and write a 200-word story 4 a quiet life, but not always! In the Senior 5 I might .
Olympics event in the USA, for example,
Future continuous c Get a bank account older people compete in every Olympic sport. 6 Maybe I’ll . .
7 I doubt that I’ll
20 – 29 years What’s the world record for the women’s
100 metres for women over seventy? 8 I don’t think I’ll .
When they have got a degree or finished
Speaking 2 their studies, people in their twenties often a 10.6 seconds 4 Use IT! Work in pairs. Complete the
I can make plans and future 6 – 12 years get a job. Which of these things can’t you b 14.6 seconds questions with phrases from this page and your
do in the UK until you’re twenty-one?
c 20.6 seconds
arrangements. Surveys show we are happiest a Get a driving licence own ideas. Then ask and answer the questions.
Use the key phrases in your answers.
around nine to ten years old. Why?
b Adopt a child 1 What’s the best age to ?
Writing a It’s when we get rich. c Get a boyfriend or girlfriend 2 Do you think that you’ll one day?
b It’s when we get a pension. Why (not)?
I can link ideas to express purposes. c It’s when we have the most fun and the fewest worries. 3 What do you want to do when ?
4 When do you think you’ll ?
Finished?
Vocabulary • Uses Look again at the age groups in exercise 1.
of get Which one do you think is the best age? Why?
Aim
Talk about different ages and life events. 50 51
THINK! exercise 2 e 2.02 Optional activity: Vocabulary
Ask the questions to the class and elicit Focus on the quiz and check that students
a range of answers. Ask more questions to understand generations in the quiz title. Say: This is what you do when you go to
encourage students to say more, e.g. What Students work in pairs to read the quiz and university. Elicit the correct phrase (get
things were easier or harder when you were choose their answers. Play the audio for a degree). Put students into pairs and
younger? What things will be better in the ask them to write five more clues for
future? Elicit a range of answers. students to listen and check the answers phrases from exercise 1. Ask students
to the quiz. See who got the most correct
ANSWerS answers, and ask students which answers to close their books, then put pairs
Students’ own answers. they find most surprising and why. With together into groups of four to read
their clues to each other and guess the
exercise 1 weaker classes, you could play the audio phrases. See which pairs guessed all the
Read through the phrases in the box again, pausing after the phrases from phrases correctly.
with the class and check that students exercise 1 with difficult pronunciations for
understand them. Point out the different students to repeat, e.g. get a pension, get a ANSWerS
age groups, then ask students to work social media account. Students’ own answers.
individually to decide in which age group ANSWerS
you are most likely to do the things in 1 a 2 c 3 a 4 b 5 c 6 b
the box. 7 b 8 a
Put students into pairs to compare their
answers, then discuss the answers with
the class. Encourage students to give
reasons for their choices where there are
differences of opinions.
ANSWerS
Students’ own answers.

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