11 December 09 - NI2 A

• Listening for specific information
  

1. There are many others factors to take into account.
2. They often have friendships or relationships with people younger than themselves.
3. They're the sort of people who wake up refreshed in the morning.
4. Generally speaking they are also people who read more and watch less TV.
5. They tend to prefer individual sports such as swimming or walking.
6. We also discovered that they tend to be more honest.
7. Non-smokers outnumbered smokers by about 20 to 1.
8. No, in fact the opposite was true.
   

• Speaking
  

1. energy
2. freedom
3. responsibility
4. health
5. insecurity
6. intelligence
7. independence
8. confidence
   

• Oral - Talking about different ages, advantages and disadvantages...
• Reading - Eternal Youth...
• b - vocabulary

1. commercially available
2. cease to function
3. retard
4. the ageing process
5. searching for
6. halt
7. within reach
8. indicate
9. involves
10. we are likely to see

• c

1. b
2. a
3. a
4. b
5. c

• Grammar: Future perfect - future continuous
• Homework - Grammar Bank - p.133.

Over to you...

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0602/060221-retirement-e.html - Retirement age - Listening

http://iteslj.org/questions/age.html - Oral practice

http://dl.screenaustralia.gov.au/module/566/ - Reading - Old Age and the Burden of Dementia

http://seniorhealth.about.com/library/blalcoholalert.htm - Reading - Alcohol and Ageing

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0907/090721-senior_citizens.html - Listening - Ageing

• Grammar

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0907/090721-senior_citizens.html - Future perfect

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm - General grammar revision

http://www.past-simple.com/Future-Perfect.htm - Try the exercises at the bottom of the page

http://www.speakspeak.com/html/d3c10_resources_grammar_advanced_future_simple.htm - More practice...

http://www.englishtenseswithcartoons.com/exercise/future_perfect_vs_continous