Summing up

Exercise 1. Say if you have learned anything new about youth in this Unit besides new vocabulary. Share your discoveries with your partner and group-mates.

Exercise 2. Read the proverbs and quotations of famous people on the youth. Pair up to interview each other and share opinions on them, and then have a group discussion. Explore in your speech the vocabulary you have learned in this Unit.

What Is Youth?

1. Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.// Youth is a period of missed opportunities. - Shaw, George Bernard

2. Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age. - Irish proverb

3. A lazy youth, a lousy age. - Traditional Proverb

4. Praise the ripe field not the green corn. - Irish proverb

5. Praise youth and it will prosper. - Irish proverb

6. If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength. - French Proverb

7. We pay when old for the excesses of youth. - Traditional Proverb

8. Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. - Euripides

9. A fledgling pigeon cannot fly over a mountain. - Korean proverb

10. Youth has no age. - Pablo Picasso

11. I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood

12. Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.