Write/project young,middle-aged and old on the board. Ask SS to decide on an age range for each group. Then have them to think of three adjectives they associate with each group.

Direct SS to the box in exercise 1/Project the picture of a ten year old girl and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ten year old as a class. Then put SS in pairs to discuss the rest. Focus Ss on the example and then give them a few minutes to match the words in bold with their definitions. Ask Ss to compare their answers in pairs before having a whole class feedback.

Have Ss to read the title of the website forum and then give them a couple of minutes to read and match the ages to the entires. Ss then work in pairs and compare their answers before the whole class feedback.

Ask Ss to read the text in more details and answer the questons in exercise C. Don't forget to mention that in some cases there may be more than one answer. Encourage them to underline any phrases that helped them to chose the right person/people. Have them check their answers in pairs before having the whole class feedback.

Have Ss in pairs discuss the best and the worst thing of being their age. Monitor and help if necessary. Get random answers from a couple of students. Collect errors to be discussed in the delayed error correction session.

Have Ss to identify modal verbs in the sentences correctly before completing the table in exercise 4 A. Get feedback from the class. Ask them to complete the table with the correct usage of the modal verbs. Set a time limit for 2 min. Ss work in pairs. Get the whole class feedback. Get Ss to match the highligted phrases to the rules in pairs (ex 4 B). Some of these phrases might be less familiar to the Ss. Once they have matched the phrases to the rules check the meaning and form (e.g which verbs are followed by to etc.) Then, have Ss to add these phrases to the table.

Put up/project the following questions on the board: 1. Are most of the people you spend time of your age or a different age? Why? 2.How is your generation different from older and younger generations? What sort of misunderstandings or conflicts does this cause? 3.Is the "generation gap" greater or smaller than it used to be? Why? Have Ss discuss these questions in pairs. Monitor and collect errors to be discussed in the error correction session.

Write some common errors made.Elicit the corrections from the class.