Monday, March 12, 2012

PROYECTO: 5. THINGS AROUND US BEFORE AND NOW

ACTIVITY FOR MY CONVERSATION GROUP
Read this text and write the verbs in the correct tense. Then think about the topic and we'll have a discussion in class:

Things around us before and now

Our lives (1)  ________ (change) a lot during the last two decades. There (2) _____(be) so many things around us that have made our lives easier and maybe more stressing, too. When I (3) _______ (be) young and I was going to be late home I used to phone my mother from a telephone box using coins, some years later, phone cards and now...Where are the telephone boxes? Well, you can see some British ones behind this text. Everybody (4) ______ (have) a mobile phone nowadays.
Teaching (5) __________ (change) very much lately. Before we used to have books, notebooks and a blackboard. English teachers (6) ______ (take)  the tape recorder to the classes and got crazy to find the exact listening we (7) _______ (need). Now there are digital boards and computer laboratories in the schools. Readers books and text books (8) _____ (have) a CD for the students to listen at home. The Internet is a fantastic tool to do plenty of activities for the English classes. Well, this is a real example!
Now you don't even have to cook!. The miraculous Termomix (9) ______ (cook) for you! That's what I (10) _______ (hear). What would our grandmothers think about this?

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