GENERAL ENGLISH PROGRAM

Level: 05, Unit 01

Homework 1
(Vocabulary)

Exercise A
Direction: Match the words with the definitions given. Write your answers in the boxes.

A. Generatio B. Child C. Adolescence D. Adult

n
E. Toddler F. Childhood G. Puberty H. Middle Age
I. Retiremen J. Old Age
t

1. a young child, especially one who is learning or has just learned to walk
2. boy or girl from the time of birth until he or she is an adult, or a son or daughter of any age.
3. the state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from
infancy to puberty.
4. a young person who is developing into an adult.
5. the stage in a person's life when they develop from a child into an adult because of changes
in their body that make them able to have children.
6. a person that has grown to full size and strength.
7. the period of your life, usually considered to be from about 40 to 60 years old, when you are
no longer young, but are not yet old.
8. A person who has stopped working
9. not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term
of living.
10. all the people of about the same age within a society or within a particular family.

Write your answers here:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
E B F C G D H I J A

Exercise B
Direction: Complete the sentences by using the words given.

Childhood adolescence birth puberty Old age retirement marriage middle age

1. Was he present at the __birth____ of his son.

2. I think I had a very happy ____childhood_____.
3. Girls usually reach ____puberty_____ about a year before most boys.
4. ____Adolescene_____ can be the best or the worst years of his life.
5. My first _____marriage______ unfortunately only lasted a couple of years.
6. Now I’m over 40 years, I can feel _____middle age________approaching.
7. I want to stop working when I am 60 and have a long and happy ____retirement_______.

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 GENERAL ENGLISH PROGRAM
Level: 05, Unit 01

8. In his____old age__ my father wrote a book about his wartime experience

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