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Look at the timeline with the different life events. Complete gaps 1-4 with the
phrases a-d below. Then listen and check your answers.

a. go to university b. learn to walk c. start a family d. finish school

be 1 start 2 learn 3 graduate get get 4 retire
born school to drive from a job married and
university grow old
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Discuss.
At what age do people in your country We can say:
usually do the following things? at 18
get married learn to drive at the age of 25
get their first job retire when they are 15

Read

A Listen, read and choose the best title (a, b or c) for the blog.
a. FUN WITH FRIENDS b. FOR THE FIRST TIME c. AN EXPERIENCE I WANT TO FORGET

http://www.henrys-blog.com
HENRY’S BLOG

I got my fi rst skateboard last year,
at the age of thirteen. The skateboard
was a present from my aunt and uncle.
I was so happy when I saw it! You see, Β Read again and write T for
all my friends had skateboards, and I True or F for False.
wanted one, too. The fi rst time I tried 1. Henry lost his irst
it wasn’t at the skatepark, of course, it tooth at home.
was in our driveway. I fell a few times,
so I decided to practise a lot before I 2. Henry bit on a nut
I was six years old when went to the skatepark with my friends. and lost his tooth.
I lost my fi rst tooth. It I didn’t want to fall in front of them. 3. When Henry lost
happened during lunchtime I’m very good at skateboarding now, his tooth, he told the
at school. I bit my chicken and I can do lots of stunts. other students.
sandwich, but something 4. Henry got his irst
was diffi cult to chew. skateboard a year ago.

‘What did Mum put in my 5. Henry’s parents gave
sandwich? Nuts?’ I thought. him the skateboard.
When I saw the tooth, I
was excited because I was 6. When Henry got the
the last person in my class skateboard, he went
to lose a baby tooth. When to the skatepark with
I told my classmates, they his friends.
thought it was funny and 7. Henry knows how to do
started laughing! a lot of skateboarding
stunts.
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