Life has five stages
Put a whole life in order, from a baby to a grandparent.
A house full of ages
In Venkatesh's grandparents' house there are people of every age: a baby, a child, a teenager, a parent and a grandparent.
Does every person spend the same number of years in each stage of life?
What this lesson covers
The idea
The journey of a human life can be divided into stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age; the duration of each stage varies from one individual to another.
A house full of ages
In Venkatesh's grandparents' house there are people of every age: a baby, a child, a teenager, a parent and a grandparent.
Does every person spend the same number of years in each stage of life?
- Yes, exactly the same for everyone
- No, it differs from person to person
- I am not sure yet
The journey of a life
Tap the stages one by one, first stage first. Then look at the lives of two people.
Five stages
The journey of a human life can be divided into stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Each person goes through them at their own pace, so how long a stage lasts varies from one person to another.
- Stage | It comes after
- Infancy | birth
- Childhood | infancy
- Adolescence | childhood
- Adulthood | adolescence
- Old age | adulthood
Notes
A human life has five stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. How long each stage lasts varies from person to person.
Check yourself
Which stage comes right after childhood?
Which list shows the stages of human life in the right order?
Which statement about the stages of life is true?
How many stages are there in the journey of a human life?
Answer: 5
Five: infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.
- Adulthood, the grown-up stage. Adulthood comes after adolescence, not right after childhood.
- Old age, the last stage. Old age is the last stage of the journey.
- Adolescence — correct. Yes! Childhood is followed by adolescence.
- Childhood, infancy, adulthood, adolescence, old age. Infancy comes before childhood, and adolescence before adulthood.
- Infancy, adolescence, childhood, adulthood, old age. Childhood comes before adolescence.
- Infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age — correct. Yes! This is the order of the journey.
- Same order for all, different time in each stage — correct. Yes! The pace is different for each person.
- Everyone spends exactly the same years in every stage. The time spent in a stage varies from one person to another.
- Some people skip one of the stages of life. The stages come one after the other for everyone.