Senior roommates

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LESSON OVERVIEW

In this lesson, students talk about the idea of senior citizens living together, do a word formation activity, and discuss retirement.

B1 / Intermediate
B2 / Upper Intermediate30 minCritical Reading ClubUnlimited Plan
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This is a Critical Reading Club worksheet. With this format, students need to read an online article at home and do the exercises in the classroom. Learn more about how to use such worksheets and their benefits in our post.

ACTIVITIES

Students start by completing three sentences with their own ideas (e.g. the age of seniors). Then, they complete words in statements (e.g. pension, socialise, retirement) using different endings and the context. They also say which of the statements are true for their country. After that, students read four comments about the article they read at home and say whether they agree or disagree with them. Finally, they think about their own retirement and discuss which things from the provided list (e.g. socialising, being fit, learning new things) are or will be important for them.

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https://eslbrains.com/crc046

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  1. msbancoff

    The link to the article doesn’t seem to be working….:(

    1. Ewa

      Hi! You can also find the article here.

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