International Day of Older Persons

Международный день пожилого человека

 

Being old is when you know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions. (Anonymous)

• Read, Listen, Think

The world is getting older and older. Not the planet, but the people who live on it. A new report reveals the global population of older people is growing at its fastest rate ever...

                                      World Population Aging

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http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/magazine/building-bridges

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What do you think of the poem?

Old people are rich :
they have silver in their hair,
gold in their teeth,
stones in their kidneys,
steel in their knees,
lead in their feet,
iron in their knuckles,
sugar in their blood,
and gas in their stomach.