Ice-breaker
Cultural note: JRR Tolkien and The Hobbit
Further reading
Legal ages and ID in NZ
Ban drinking under 21, say health chiefs: Scots consider draconian halt surge hospital admissions
Opinion
" The United States: One of the few countries where an 18- to 20-year-old can legally join the military, fight in combat, vote, buy tobacco and fireamrs, get married, have sex with other adults, dance naked in a strip club, rent porn, star in porn, get tattooed, play the lottery, and buy a housem but can't order a beer or a glass of wine."
- Imagine that your life so far divides up into a number of 'stages' or periods'. How many are there? What name would you give to each stage?
- What are the times when people's lives change in important ways (eg leaving school)?
- What do you think is the biggest change in a person's life? Your first girl/boyfriedn? Finishing your degree? Losing your job? Getting married? Getting divorced? Having a baby? Retiring? Something else?
If you could change one of the following, which would it be?
- Where you were born
- Where you went to school
- The subjects you studied at school
Life changing events:
birth, death, getting engaged/married, having children, moving house, leaving school, going to university, getting a job, changing jobs, passing exams/driving exam, changing country, etc.
birth, death, getting engaged/married, having children, moving house, leaving school, going to university, getting a job, changing jobs, passing exams/driving exam, changing country, etc.
Further practice:
Check out the following link to continue practicing vocabulary and grammar related to this topic. The page includes listening and language exercises with online correction:
Language notes: Metaphors
1) When we compare something to something else and we want to use a metaphor, we say X is Y, eg TV is a drug.
2) Metaphor is a very important way of creating meaning. In everyday conversations, we use many metaphors.
Cultural note: JRR Tolkien and The Hobbit
Tolkien was a professor of English literature and Ancient Languages, such as Anglo-Saxon, at Oxford University from the 1920s to the 1950s. One day, he made a note on a student's exam paper: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Tolkien didin't have any idea what a hobbit was, or what the words meant! But this was the start of one of the most famous series of fantasy books. The first one, The Hobbit, was published in 1937.
The stories are very influenced by classical mythology. Because Tolkien was a professor of language, he invented fantasy languages for the different races in his books.
Cultural note: Babies&others
- Childcare is a general term for looking after children, maybe by a parent, a nursery, a childminder, etc.
- Adult company means 'other adults you spend time with' (There is no business meaning here).
- A nappy is the cloth of paper pants a child wears before he/she learns to use a toilet.
- Consultancy work is giving expert advice to other people or companies.
- Maternity leave is the time that a woman can stay away form her job when she has a baby (paternity leave).
- Nursery is the place that a very young child can go before they can go to school. Sometimes the word also refers to a part of a hospital for newborn babies.
Further reading
Legal ages and ID in NZ
Ban drinking under 21, say health chiefs: Scots consider draconian halt surge hospital admissions
Opinion
" The United States: One of the few countries where an 18- to 20-year-old can legally join the military, fight in combat, vote, buy tobacco and fireamrs, get married, have sex with other adults, dance naked in a strip club, rent porn, star in porn, get tattooed, play the lottery, and buy a housem but can't order a beer or a glass of wine."
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