The first year of life

Life Extra Activities

Vocabulary practice
1 Complete the table with words from the Keywords box.

verb noun
___ feeling

hear ___
listen ___
see ___

___ smell

speak ___

___ taste

touch ___

2 Complete the sentences with the correct word from the table in Exercise 1.

1 I’m sure I can ___ something burning. Did you switch the grill off?

2 If you ___ Jakob, can you tell him I have his books. Thanks.

3 People who have problems with their ___ can make the font on the screen bigger.

4 My nephew has some problems with his ___ and I can’t understand everything he
says.

5 I like the ___ of rain on my face. It’s very pleasant.

6 You can improve your ___ skills in English easily these days – there’s so much audio
on the internet.
Grammar practice
3 Read the definitions. Look at how these words are used in the article. Then
complete the sentences with a/an or one.

a/an: indefinite article meaning ‘any one of many, not specific’

one: the number 1; a determiner meaning ‘a specific thing in a given context’

1 My sister has just had ___ baby!

2 There were two groups in the study: ___ was red and the other was blue.

3 I’ve just read about ___ interesting experiment on the senses.

4 How many words can ___ child understand at the age of two?

5 How does ___ child learn to speak?

6 My brother has been in a couple of TV shows. ___ was shown on the BBC.

7 How many neurons are there in ___ adult’s brain?

8 Is this ___ of your books or is it mine?