Questions:

1. What is the best age to be? Why? Do you like being the age at which you now are?

2. What's been your favorite age so far in your life? Why? 

3. Do you have any fears about getting older? What are they? 

4. Who is the oldest person that you know? Are you close to him/her? 

5. Is age important in your culture? 

6. Can people of different ages be friends? 

7. Are you friends with someone older or younger than you? 

8. Until what age would you like to live?

9. What was the hardest part about growing up for you? 

10. What advice would you give to your younger self? 

11. Our tastes in many areas change as we get older. What did you like before that you don't like now? What did you dislike before but now enjoy?

12. Are there any age groups you currently don’t like?

13 . Where you're from, is it okay to ask people about their age? 

14. Do you think that any of the age limits need changing?

15. Do you ever disagree with your friends/ parents or sisters and brothers on music, fashion, or values?

Vocabulary:

1. age limit: the age at which a person is allowed or not allowed to do something:

ex: The lower age limit for buying cigarettes in the U.K. is 16.

2. babyboomer: a person who was born during the baby boom (= a large increase in the number of children being born) that happened in the U.S. and the U.K. following World War II:

ex: Many baby boomers are continuing to work well past retirement age.

3. Generation Z: a way of referring to the group of people who were born in the late 1990s and early 2000s:

ex: Generation Z has little memory of anything before September 11, 2001 and the war on terror.

4. millennial: born in the 1980s, 1990s, or early 2000s:

ex: Millennials have grown up with the internet and can't imagine a world without it.

5. take years off someone: If something takes years off a person, it makes them appear or feel much younger:

ex: "Have you seen James without his beard?" "I know - it takes years off him!"