Unit 5: Longevity: Refusing to Be invisible.

Elderly people in Costa Rica

Like all countries in the world, Costa Rica has a high rate of elderly people which exceed 63 years. Many of them are in good health conditions and many others do not, or do not receive decent treatment. By their vulnerability, this group of people needs special care both physically, mentally and emotionally.

In our country, we find a growing number of seniors abandoned, abused and not sheltered by society; this is due to the lack of national education in protecting the elderly. Every day hundreds of public reports of abuse reported to them ending in negligence from the state, many are abandoned elderly in nursing homes where these institutions can barely keep and the state and society don’t help them. Beyond that, problems are also presented with transportation, physical and verbal abuse.

This is a reality that occurs every day of our lives, often we ignore or simply do not give importance but we must remember that they are human like us and not just for older age is a reason to treat this form, rather we venerate them for their wisdom and experience as does the eastern culture, that culture should adapt and make rows in our lives.

Do not abandon them, and we are considered love with them, many are fathers, mothers who invested his life in us and building a better future for us so that we begin to honor them.

Vocabulary

Go in for: want to do, do something with pleasure.
Bold: brave, courageous.
Bitterness: resentment, anger.
Solidarity: support, agreement.
Ensemble: outfit (clothing).
Chapter: local group of an organization.
Gorgeous: beautiful, attractive.
Flamboyant: showy, loud, colorful.
Brag: boast, show off.
Assisted living facility: a place where seniors sometimes live, similar to a nursing home.
Self-improvement: working hard to become better.
Nurturing: offering kind, supportive care.
Anxious: worried and tense becouse of possible misfourtune.
Generation: the act or process of bringing into being,production or reproduction.
Elderly: quite old.
Senior: older in years.
Hotspot: an area of potential violence or political unrest.
Facility: ease of action or performance, freedom for difficulty.
Citizen: a native registered or naturalized member of the state.
Physician: a penson legally qualified to prectice medicine.

Grammar: Tag Questions.

In spoken English, people commonly end sentences with tag questions.
There are two types:
                          Question Type
                          Comment Type

Question Type:

• Asks for information or seeks to confirm information the questioner is not sure about.
• Uses rising intonation.

Comment Type: 

• Makes a comment
• Is used when the questioner assumes the listener agrees.
• Uses falling intonation.

Examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKf2GcwFywc