Lesson 14 (unfinished)

• English
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4,5

Here's another photo for you. Can you guess what this could be? 

It's the side of an aeroplane. 

3.1 Angry relationships

Idiom: 

drive someone up the wall

Meaning

Make someone very angry (or sometimes very bored)

Example:

The neighbour's loud music is driving me up the wall.

Use of English Part 1

Multiple choice

Here's how a good student (you) should do it:

1) Read the title. It's about age and how old you feel. What do you know about that? 

2) Quickly read the text. Reading the two paragraphs gives us an idea of the topic - the gerontologist thinks we should test for biological age to see when people should retire. 

3) Look at question 1. Which option collocates with every? Maybe you think every position and every aspect sound good, but you're not sure which one is right. Just choose one and go to the next question. This is a part of the test where we don't want to spend too much time.

You read the rest of the sentences twice, three times, but you can't think of any answers. You don't know these words. Disaster? Not really - there are lots of other points available in the Reading and Use of English test. You decide to move on to part 2 without wasting any more time here. If you manage your time well, you'll be able to come back here and have another think. And if not, you can just take a guess at the answer. Five or six minutes into the exam, your answer paper looks like this:

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Vocabulary

Is there an ideal age? 

What are there things that you like/dislike about your current age? 

What are some of the advantages of getting older? 

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At what stage of life do you think your age is more obvious? 

Is it easier to tell the age of men or women?