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READING Comparing generations
I can understand a text comparing past and present generations.
1 1.07 Which of these things do you
think were common in the 1950s? Which are
common now? Read, listen and compare your
answers with the text.
ballrooms big bands mobile phones
computers jobs for women discos
black-and-white TV bad language
2 Read the text again. Write true or false.
Correct the false sentences.
1 The cinema wasn’t popular in the fifties.
2 Alice’s family bought a TV.
3 Alice thinks that teenagers are spoilt today.
4 Becky thinks that the fifties style of clothes
was awful.
5 Alice doesn’t like the violence on TV today.
6 Alice thinks that life is better for women
today.
7 People get married earlier now than in the
fifties.
8 Becky is respectful to older people.
3 BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY Complete the
sentences with prepositions. Then check your
answers in the text.
1 Most teenagers aren’t keen jazz.
2 She’s sometimes shocked the bad
language and violence on TV.
3 She’s cool most things.
4 She’s really interested that.
5 I’m polite older people.
4 Complete the sentences with the prepositions
in the box and your own ideas.
of about for with from at
1 I’m not very fond ...
2 I never get bored ...
3 These days people are crazy ...
4 I’m not very good ...
5 Marilyn Monroe was famous ...
6 ... today are very different those in the
fifties.
5 YOUR OPINIONS Ask and answer the questions.
1 How was life different for women in the
fifties in your country?
2 Do parents spoil their children more now
than in the past in your country?
3 Do you think people should respect the
older generation? Why?
4 What do the older generation think about
the younger generation in your country?
5 Do you think it’s better to be a teenager
now than in the fifties? Why?
How different was a
teenager’s life fifty
years ago? Alice and
her granddaughter,
Becky, share their
experiences and
compare life today
and in the fifties.
Alice
‘I was a teenager in the fifties.
They were exciting times. A lot
of terrible things had happened
in the Second World War and
when it ended in 1945 people
needed to have some fun.
Every Saturday, I used to go to a
ballroom where a big band played
live jazz. There was a craze called swing
dancing, which we loved. We went to the cinema
a lot, too. It used to cost two shillings then.*
Nowadays, there are so many machines and
gadgets. I remember that a family in our street
bought a black-and-white TV and we all went to
their house to watch it. I’d only seen them in
the shops before that. And of course, in those days
we hadn’t seen a computer or a mobile phone.
I find most young people today are respectful,
but they want everything now. Maybe their
parents buy them too many things.’
10 Generations
* Two shillings (1957) = ten pence
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