8 Unit 01 Way to grow! Read the statements below. They all have something to do with growing up and personal identity. What aspects do they deal with? Come up with headings for 2 to 6. Work in pairs and decide which statements you think are true and which ones are made up. (One is false in each group.) READING + SPEAKING 1 a b In this unit you will: talk about who you are read about TikTok talents improve your social media habits discuss teen issues tell your first digital story revise how to deal with writing tasks 1 C is false (they never stop growing); 2 A is false (‘Beyoncé’ was her mother’s family name before she married and became ‘Knowles-Lawson’); 3 C is false (the most common letter in English is ‘e’; 4 C is false (she has over 15,000 piercings; 5 B is false (UK passports have been blue since 2020); 6 A is false (it’s 16 billion km!) 1 Body A Babies have over 90 bones more than adults. B Teenagers hear high frequency sounds that adults can’t hear. C Your ears stop growing when you reach the age of 18. 2 A Beyoncé has the same first name as her mother. B Singer Ed Sheeran and Cherry Seaborn called their first child Lyra Antarctica. C Actor Anne Hathaway has the same name as Shakespeare’s wife. 3 A The average eight-year-old native speaker of English already knows 10,000 words. B Cows can have regional accents. C The most common letter in English is ‘i’. 4 A Lady Gaga has a poem in German by Rilke tattooed on her arm. B Harry Styles has a tattoo of a biscuit in honour of his older sister, Gemma. C Elaine Davidson, the world’s most pierced woman, has over 9,000 piercings. 5 A Less than 50% of Americans have a passport. B UK passports have been purple since 2020 after the UK left the EU. C The only UK citizen who doesn’t need a passport to travel abroad is the monarch (the King or Queen). 6 A If you stretched out all the DNA in your cells, it would measure 16 million kilometres. B Like fingerprints, everyone has a unique tongue print. C Human hair contains tiny particles of gold. Make statements about yourself (your hobbies, family, likes and dislikes, your summer holidays, etc.). Let your classmates guess which ones are true and which ones are made up. Example: I can play the trumpet, I am terrified of spiders, and I once won a burger-eating contest. SPEAKING 2 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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