Module 1: Family Life
Summary: The Generation Gap
Key points
- The generation gap is the difference of ideas between parents and teenagers.
- Conflicts are often about curfews, phones, friends, clothes and school.
- Trust is built with dialogue, compromise and kept promises.
- Compound adjectives (two words + a hyphen) make descriptions more precise.
- Some letters are silent: b in climb, comb, doubt; w in write, wrong, answer.
Rules to remember
adjective + noun + -ed
open-minded, kind-hearted, short-tempered, blue-eyed, high-heeled.
adjective / adverb + -ing
hard-working, good-looking, easy-going.
adverb + past participle
well-behaved, well-known, badly-paid.
number + noun
The noun stays singular: a fifteen-year-old girl, a ten-dinar note.
How to do it
- Find the two pieces of information (e.g. works + hard).
- Build the compound (hard-working).
- Put it before the noun with a hyphen.
Example
Nour is a dog-headed but hard-working fifteen-year-old girl.
Common mistakes
- *a fifteen-years-old girl* ➡️ a fifteen-year-old girl
- *open minded* ➡️ open-minded
- *I am agree* ➡️ I agree
Key words
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