Vocabulary: Life's ups and downs

VLife stages

1Complete the sentences with the life stages in the box. 

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• be born
• die
• fall in love
• get a job
• get divorced
• go to university
• have a baby
• retire

• 1'Do you want to 

• get married
 when you're older?'

'No, I don't want a husband.'

• 2It's sad when husbands and wives  . It can be very sad for their children.

• 3My aunt's baby could   today!

• 4Claire wants to   and be a mother.

• 5You have to   if you want to be a doctor.

• 6Characters in books and films   with each other quickly. It's not realistic!

• 7Tom wants to  . He wants some money.

• 8My grandfather doesn't want to  . He loves his job!

• 9It's very sad when people  .

V Jobs

2Choose the correct jobs to complete the sentences. 

• 1You need a builderfactory workerlawyer to build or repair a house.

• 2My dog is unwell, so I need to take it to the vetdoctornurse.

• 3An engineerarchitectaccountant helps businesses with their money.

• 4My aunt is a scientistnurseengineer. She studies the chemicals in plants.

• 5An architectelectricianengineer is putting some new lights in our house.

• 6'I want to be a scientistbuilderteacher.'

  'Do you want to work in primary or secondary schools?'

• 7Andy is interested in designing machines, so he wants to be an engineerwaiterarchitect one day.

• 8Dad is a plumberelectricianlawyer, so he put the bath, sink, shower and toilet in our house.

VinsightAdjective suffixes: -ful and -al

3Change the nouns to adjectives. Use suffixes -ful or -al. 

• 1music

• 2wonder

• 3nature

• 4success

• 5beauty

• 6profession

• 7peace

• 8politics

 

VinsightAdjective suffixes: -ful and -al

4Choose the correct adjectives to complete the sentences. 

• 1Grace can sing and play the piano. She's very beautifulmusicalpeaceful.

• 2Avatar was a very naturalmusicalsuccessful film. It made almost 3 billion dollars!

• 3I think Paris is a very politicalbeautifulmusical city. The buildings are very attractive.

• 4Mum's car isn't very powerfulnaturalbeautiful. It can't go up hills very fast.

• 5'I've got a place at university!'

  'That's politicalpeacefulwonderful! Well done!'

• 6I don't like zoos. Animals should live in their successfulnaturalpowerful environments.

VinsightAdjective suffixes: -ful and -al

5Complete the text with the words in the box. 

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• a baby
• lawyer
• married
• peaceful
• political
• university
• successful

I admire Mahatma Ghandi because he helped make the world a fairer place.

Ghandi was ¹

born

 in India in 1869.

He was an average school student and didn't get great marks. He got 

² 

 

when he was thirteen and his wife had

 

³ ,

 

their first son, a few years later. When he was eighteen he went to

 

⁴ 

 

in London to study law.

He got a job as a ⁵  in South Africa in 1893. One day he was on a train. He had a first class ticket (the most expensive), but he couldn't sit with the first class passengers because he was Indian. He had to sit in third class. From this moment, he wanted to change the unfair society he lived in and he started to be a very

 

⁶ 

 

man.

Ghandi returned to India in 1915. He wanted the British (who controlled India) to leave India. Ghandi was a ⁷  man – he hated fighting. So he asked people to stop doing what the British wanted. Thousands of Indians followed Ghandi's idea. It was

⁸  because India became independent in 1947.

6  Choose someone you admire and write a timeline of life events for them. Use the internet to find the dates for their life events.

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