28. YOUTH & OLD AGE

Match the statements with their functions

Read each statement and choose the function it performs in a discussion.

1. Older people may offer experience and knowledge, while younger people may offer new ideas, technological skills and different perspectives.

2. When you say "young people", what age group are you referring to?

3. I agree that older people have a great deal of experience to offer.

4. If people of different ages work together, each generation can contribute skills and knowledge that the other may lack.

5. What do you think younger and older people can learn from each other?

6. Schools, workplaces and community organisations could create more opportunities for different generations to work together.

7. I don't agree that younger people are necessarily less responsible than older people.

8. That's an interesting question. I suppose there are arguments on both sides.

9. But isn't it also possible that older people's experience can sometimes make them less willing to accept new ideas?

10. I think society benefits when different generations have opportunities to interact.