COMPARING GENERATIONS

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COMPARING GENERATIONS

Answer the next questions

1. When did you first become an adult in your mind?
2. Can you talk to your parents about everything?
3. Do you think you can be a better parent than your own parents in future?
4. Are people from the "older" generation always more wise and correct in their ways of thinking and choices? Why or why not?
5. Would you ever date someone much older or younger than yourself?
6. Is it possible for parents and children to be friends? Or for people of different generations to be friends?
7. Do you think that your life is easier/harder than your parents?
8. What do you think are some of the advantages or disadvantages of another generation?
9. What are some topics that people of different generations disagree on?
10. What are some differences in your culture's generation gaps when compared to that of another culture's own generation gaps?

Transforming verbs and adjectives into nouns

1. Rimas grew up in ___________, but his parents grew up in __________
2. Rimas´s extended family includes _____________ aunts and uncles on his mother´s side
3. When Rimas´s mother was growing up, every evening she ate dinner ______________. However, when Rimas and his sister were kids, they sometimes had to eat ___________:

Complete each statement (part 1)

1. How did Rimas grow up differently from his parents?
2. Why does Rima´s father think teenagers nowadays have more problems than when he was growimng up?

Listen to a man´s description of the generation gap on his family. Then answer the questions (part 1)

Listen and complete the chart by describing he differences between the two generations (part 2)

Compare your generation with your parents´ generation. Discuss your ideas