A collection of boomerangs
The boomerang generation is used to describe people who move back home to live with their parents after finishing university. Join Alice and Rob as they talk about recent increases in the number of graduates moving home.
This week's question:
At what age can you leave home in the UK with your parents' permission?Is it:
a) 18
b) 17
c) 16
Listen out for the answer in the programme.
Listen to the programme
The Boomerang Generation
Vocabulary from the programme
- leave home
to move out of your parents' house and live somewhere else
- independent
confident and free to do things without needing help from others
- legal limit
a restriction set down by the law - in this case it refers to the minimum age when someone can leave home
- boomerang
Australian curved toy that comes back to you when you throw it
- booming
growing or increasing rapidly
- house or flat-share
living in a house or flat with other people
- debts
money that somebody owes and must repay
- regimented
a military term indicating there are strict rules to obey
- technically
according to the exact meaning of something
- adulthood
when a person is fully grown, legally responsible and becomes an adult
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