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Life in 1900 7

1 Look at the pictures. Read and complete the text with the correct letter.

Most people lived in houses without electricity, running water � or telephones. There was a lot of work to do in the house and children helped. Boys worked with their fathers. The girls cooked and cleaned the house 2 .

Sometimes there were ten or more children in a family. There wasn’t any TV 3 and there weren’t any computer games. Children played outside a lot of the time.

People travelled by horse. Horses were very important because they carried food 4 and pulled fire engines through the streets when there was a fire. Some people used bicycles 5 . There weren’t many cars and there weren’t any aeroplanes. People travelled long distances by train 6 .

People played musical instruments, listened to music 7 and danced. They enjoyed the cinema, but films were in black and white 8 . They lasted for about twenty minutes and there wasn’t any sound. Telephones 9 and cameras �0 were beginning to appear in �900.

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7Life in 1900: then and now

2 What was different and what was the same? Complete the table.

3 What was good about living in �900? What was bad?

4 What’s good about living now? What’s bad about it?

�900 Now Same?Different?

At home

Families

Children

Transport

Free time

Technology

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7Vocabulario verbos regulares en pasado

1 Look at the pictures. Read and complete the text with the correct

letter. Haz una fotocopia para cada alumno de la clase para hacer

la actividad de forma individual. Si lo prefieres, pueden hacer la

actividad en pareja. Los alumnos identifican las ilustraciones y leen el

texto. Ayúdales con el vocabulario si es necesario. Completan el texto,

con las ilustraciones correspondientes.

Respuestas: 1 a 2 g 3 b 4 c 5 j 6 i 7 a 8 f 9 d 10 h

2 What was different and what was the same? Complete the table. De forma

individual completan la tabla con las cosas que había en 1900 y con

las que hay ahora. Puedes recordarles que para mucho niños del

mundo la vida sigue siendo muy parecida a como era en 1900.

Respuestas:

�900 Now Same?Different?

At homeno electricity, no running water

electricity, running water,fridge, telephone

different

Families 10 children, big families 1–2 children different

Childrengirls cooked and cleaned,boys worked with fathers

children go to school different

Transport horse, train, bike train, bike, plane, carsame and different

Free time music, dance, cinema music, dance, cinemasame and different

Technology telephones, camerastelephones, cameras,DVD, CD, MP3

same and different

3 What was good about living in 1900? What was bad? Contestan con sus

propias ideas. Es posible que necesiten ayuda para redactar las oraciones

en ingles. Corrige con toda la clase para ver qué ideas tienen. Puedes

hacer un debate para que defiendan y escuchen diferentes opiniones.

Respuesta: respuestas abiertas

4 What’s good about living now? What’s bad about it? Al igual que en la

actividad 3, contestan con sus propias ideas. Es posible que necesiten

ayuda para redactar las oraciones en ingles. Corrige con toda la clase

para ver qué ideas tienen. Puedes hacer un debate para que defiendan

y escuchen diferentes opiniones.

Respuesta: respuestas abiertas

Vocabulary regular verbs in the past

1 Look at the pictures. Read and complete the text with the correct

letter. Make a photocopy for each pupil in the class to do the exercise

individually. They could also do it in pairs. The pupils identify the

pictures and then read the text. Help them with any new vocabulary.

They complete the text with the letter of the corresponding picture.

Answers: 1 a 2 g 3 b 4 c 5 j 6 i 7 a 8 f 9 d 10 h

2 What was different and what was the same? Complete the table. They

complete the table individually with information about 1900 and

now. You could remind the pupils that for many children around the

world, life today is very similar to how it was for us in 1900.

Answers:

�900 Now Same?Different?

At homeno electricity, no running water

electricity, running water,fridge, telephone

different

Families 10 children, big families 1–2 children different

Childrengirls cooked and cleaned,boys worked with fathers

children go to school different

Transport horse, train, bike train, bike, plane, carsame and different

Free time music, dance, cinema music, dance, cinemasame and different

Technology telephones, camerastelephones, cameras,DVD, CD, MP3

same and different

3 What was good about living in 1900? What was bad? They answer the

questions using their own ideas. They may need help in writing

sentences in English. Go over their answers with the class in order

that they might share their ideas. You could set up a debate in which

they defend their opinions and listen to those of others.

Answers: open answers

4 What’s good about living now? What’s bad about it? As for activity 3,

they answer the questions using their own ideas. They may need help

in writing sentences in English. Go over their answers with the class

in order that they might share their ideas. You could set up a debate

in which they defend their opinions and listen to those of others.

Answers: open answers