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2.4.    Do you think that children and teenagers who gain great famę in show business or sports really are happy in life? Can they be happy adults?

Mo, they cannot be happy as their childhood is taken from them. Instead of playing with other boys and girls, being spontaneous as children usually are, learning many exciting things about life, they are isolated from the real world and taught how to act and pretend. They are not even allowed to dress the way other children do as their public image must not be distorted. Their world is that of adult people from their early years, but when they grow up and become adult, they are rarely happy. Why? Because they morę or less suddenly discover that not much is left of their popularity and all the privileges it brought. This must be difficult to cope with if someone was used to being the focus of attention for years. I suppose the people who had to pretend most of the time in their childhood can have serious emotional problems as adults.

2.5.    Is there anything that makes you think you would rather not become a rich and famous person in the futurę?

; wouldn't mind being a fairly rich person for obvious reasons, but being famous is a totally different thing. Like many people I value my privacy and I would hate to be followed everywhere I go by crowds of paparazzi or have my life gossiped about in tabloids.

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Present the content of the visual materiał you have.

All the pictures I can see show people at different ages and in different situations:

•    two young girls playing on a swing together;

•    four teenage girls wearing summer dresses and sitting on a terrace and chatting;

•    a couple in their late twenties in the bathroom; they are still wearing their pyjamas; the woman is helping the man to shave;

•    an elderly, ąuiet man sitting alone and either contemplating or praying.

What important things can happen to people when they are as old as those shown in the photos? Why do you consider those events important?

•    a child: goes to kindergarten and school • learns to read and write • makes friends • learns a lot about the world;

•    a teenager: goes to secondaiy or vocational school • falls in love • gets a driving licence • leaves school;

•    an adult: chooses a career • gets married • has children • buys a fiat or a house;

•    an elderly person: retires from work • gets weaker • has health problems • wife/husband and friends die • loneliness.

How do you understand the following sentence? 'To be 70 years young is far morę cheerful and hopeful than to be 30 years old.'

:::k that it means that one is as old as one feels regardless of the datę on one's birth certificate. There are elderly :r'.e who are energetic, cheerful and optimistic despite their age as there are teenagers and young adults who, •: ugh physicałly young, lack energy, optimism and seem tired with their lives.