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3. When is your birthday?
4. Where do you come from?
5. Where do you live?
6. Do you work?
7. When did you leave school?
8. What school did you leave?
9. How well did you do at school?
10. What subjects were you interested in at school?
11. What did you do after school?
12. What is your major?
13. Who chose the major for you?
14. When do you hope to graduate from the University?
15. Do you know what you would like to be?
16. How does your major relate to your future job?
17. What education did your parents get?

2.According to the Chinese proverb, the beginning of wisdom is to call things
by their right name. Our names "define" us, identify us, our family, and our
culture. Sometimes they begin to reflect who we are. Does your name have a
particular meaning? Would you like to change your name? Why? Why not?
3.Read the following extract from a Shakespeare play As You Like It. What
are the seven ages that Jaques, a character from the play describes? What
associations do you have with these seven ages? What parts have you already
played in your life?

THE SEVEN AGES OF THE MAN

(From As You Like It
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by W. Shakespeare Act II, Scene 7)

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewing and puking in the nurse’s arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail

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Друкується за виданням John and Liz Soars. Headway Upper Intermediate. -
Oxford University Press, 1994, p.11.

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