Think ahead

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 403.

READING AND SPEAKING

Part A

We grow as we go through different stages of human development.

The number of these stages may be different as sociologists, psychologists, or poets view them. For example, William Shakespeare in his play As You Like It critically and humorously examines the human lifespan as seven stages of emotional and physical development, and thus the man plays seven parts in his life: an infant, a school-boy, a lover, a soldier, a person delivering justice, and there are also two stages of old age, the last one being “the second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans (without) teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything". (You may read more about it in Act 2, Scene 7 of As You Like It in Jaques' speech which begins with Shakespeare's most famous words: “All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players.” on the Internet.)

1) What do you know about different stages of human development?

2) Which stage seems to be the most difficult for you? Why?

3) What stage of human development are you in? Are you comfortable enough being there? Is there anything you would like to change? Why?

4) What would you like to know on the problem of youth?

Read the text and say if the statements that follow are true or false. Be ready to answer the questions on the text and to speak on the stages of human development: