CUI B12 (URJC): 5C Birthdays

Ice breaker

- Are birthdays important in Spain?
- Do you like celebrating your birthday or do you prefer to keep it quite?
- What's the best birthday you've ever had?
- How will you/did you celebrate your 21st birthday? Your 50th birthday? Your 100th birthday?
- Do you hope to live to be very old?
- 'Life begins at 40'. Do you agree?

VOCABULARY: Life stages

Put the following in the typical chronological order:

retired person/pensioner/senior citizen
toddler
child/schoolchild/youngster
thirty-something
young adult
new-born baby
parent
infant
middle-aged person
adolescent/teenager

Reading
Top 5 Places Where People Live the Longest

GRAMMAR: VERB PATTERNS

GRAMMAR EXPLANATION from perfect-english-grammar.com by Seonaid:

1) We use gerunds (verb + ing):

After certain verbs - I enjoy singing
After prepositions - I drank a cup of coffee before leaving
As the subject or object of a sentence - Swimming is good exercise

2) We use 'to' + infinitive:

After certain verbs - We decided to leave
After many adjectives - It's difficult to get up early
To show purpose - I came to London to study English

3) We use the bare infinitive (the infinitive without 'to'):

After modal verbs - I can meet you at six o'clock
After 'let', 'make' and (sometimes) 'help' - The teacher let us leave early
After some verbs of perception (see, watch, hear, notice, feel, sense) - I watched her walk away
After expressions with 'why' - why go out the night before an exam?