Students discuss and perhaps add some of their own

1. 50 THINGS A TEENAGER SHOULD DO
BEFORE REACHING 20.
L/Q: How many have you
already accomplished?

2. The following slides show things that a
teenager should experience before
reaching the age of 20.
How many do you agree with?
Would you add any of your own?
Try to answer the questions which
appear on the slides.

3. Learn how to iron your clothes.
How ?
Why ?

4. Pay for a meal in a restaurant.
How?
Why?

5. Have a deep conversation with an elderly person.
Who ?
Where?
When?
Why?

6. Learn how to cook a chicken.
Why?
When?

7. Know how the washing machine works.
How?
Why?

8. Open a bank account.
How?
Why?

9. Visit a farm.
Where?
How?
Why?

10. Fly a kite.
How?
Where?
Why?

11. Visit a place of religious significance.
How?
Where?
Why?

12. Try different hair-styles.
Why?

13. Climb something.
Where?
How?
Why?

14. Recover from a broken heart.
Why?
How?

15. Learn to play a musical instrument.
Why?
Where?

16. Learn basic calligraphy.
How?
Why?

17. Fill a car with petrol.
Why?
How?

18. Do the family shopping by yourself.
Why?

19. Learn a poem by heart.
How?
Why?

20. Spend your time with a Thesaurus.
Why?

21. Be really hungry.
Why?

22. Learn to swim.
Where?
Why?

23. Go camping properly!
Where?
How?
Why?

24. Learn to say “Thank-you” in 10 languages.
Why?
How?

25. Learn to organise yourself.
How?
Why?

26. Know the difference between right and wrong.
Who?
How?
Why?
Where?
When?

27. Listen to the birds in the morning.
Why?

28. Watch the film “Blade Runner”
How?
Where?
Why?

29. Learn how to change a tyre.
How?
Why?

30. Know how to say “No”.
How?
Why?

31. Investigate the Space Elevator….
Why?
How?

32. Go somewhere really COLD or HOT.
Why?

33. Appreciate a painting.
Why?
How?
Where?

34. Understand what “mortgage” means.
Why?
How?
Who?

35. Have a basic understanding of electricity, fuses, plugs
etc.
How ?
Why?

36. Appreciate your family.
Why?

37. Your music is not their music !
Why?

38. Learn how to cut food properly.
How?
Why?

39. Discover why your parents gave you your name.
Why?

40. Learn to skate on ice, preferably on a frozen canal.
Where?
How?
Why?

41. Conquer a fear.
How?
Why?

42. Go to the theatre.
Where?
Why?

43. Care for an animal.
How?
Why?
Which?

44. Have a basic knowledge of foreign menus.
How?
Why?

45. Learn to ride a bicycle.
Why?
How?
Where?

46. Visit somewhere of historical significance.
Where?
Why?

47. Feel the tide going out between your toes.
Why?
Where?

48. Know the apostrophe rules.
Why?
How?

49. Volunteer to help.
How?
Why?

50. Failure can be positive.
How?

51. Grow something.
How?
Why?