Unit 47. Ages and stages. Flashcards
grow up
When someone grows up, they gradually change from being a child into being an adult.
She grew up in Tokyo. [VERB PARTICLE]
age [of quantity of time]
Your age is the number of years that you have lived.
She has a nephew who is just ten years of age.
At the age of sixteen he qualified for a place at the University of Hamburg. [+ of]
I admired him for being so confident at his age.
stage [of smth.]
A stage of an activity, process, or period is one part of it.
The way children express their feelings depends on their stage of development.
Mr Cook has arrived in Greece on the final stage of a tour which also included Egypt and Israel.
early
Early means near the beginning of a day, week, year, or other period of time.
…in the 1970s and the early 1980s.
…a few weeks in early summer.
She was in her early teens.
…the early hours of Saturday morning.
mid-
Mid- is used to form nouns or adjectives that refer to the middle part of a particular period of time, or the middle point of a particular place.
…the mid-eighteenth century.
Davis is in her mid-thirties.
…the mid-west of America.
late
Late means near the end of a day, week, year, or other period of time.
The talks eventually broke down in late spring.
He was in his late 20s.
…the late 1960s.
approximately
close to; around; roughly or in the region of;
baby
A baby is a very young child, especially one that cannot yet walk or talk.
She used to take care of me when I was a baby.
My wife has just had a baby.
Claire had to dress her baby sister.
toddler
A toddler is a young child who has only just learned to walk or who still walks unsteadily with small, quick steps.
child
A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
When I was a child I lived in a country village.
He’s just a child.
…a child of six.
It was only suitable for children.
childhood
A person’s childhood is the period of their life when they are a child.
She had a happy childhood.
He was remembering a story heard in childhood.
…childhood illnesses.
teenager
A teenager is someone who is between thirteen and nineteen years old.
As a teenager he attended Tulse Hill Senior High School.
teens
The years of a person’s life between the ages of 13 and 19 inclusive.
adult
An adult is a mature, fully developed person. An adult has reached the age when they are legally responsible for their actions.
Becoming a father signified that he was now an adult.
Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.
twenties
He lives in the West Twenties
She’s in her early twenties
The temperature must be in the high twenties today
thirties
he numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 30 through 39, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or referring to degrees of temperature
He works in the East Thirties
She must be in her thirties
The temperature was in the thirties yesterday
middle-aged
If you describe someone as middle-aged, you mean that they are neither young nor old. People between the ages of 40 and 60 are usually considered to be middle-aged.
His sisters are grown up and his parents are middle-aged.
Two middle-aged couples stood staring at the camera.
middle age
Middle age is the period in your life when you are no longer young but have not yet become old. Middle age is usually considered to take place between the ages of 40 and 60.
We all tend to put on weight in middle age.
