Looking Back

•In teams of 2, look at the picture(s) selected by your teacher.•The picture evokes something from the past.•Write a short paragraph (about 100 to 150 words) explaining how you imagine life was back then. (related to your picture)•Observe the little details in the pictures and include them in your text if needed.•Remember to write your text using the past tenses. Use your grammar book and irregular verb list if needed.

Slow Driving

• In the 1900’s cars were probably very rare and I’m sure that most people didn’t own one. Imagine how expensive cars were! Only the rich owned cars because it was such a new thing. On the picture, there are old glass bottles. It’s probably because they didn’t have any plastic bottles back then.

• Cars were revolutionary and extremely modern for that time. People went from horses to cars, it was a big change.

Housewives: In the past, women didn’t work. They

stayed at home and took care of the house, the children,

cleaning, cooking and much more. What do you think they

did in a day?

Log drivers: This was a very dangerous job! After cutting the trees men had to

drive logs to the sawmills. Imagine a typical workday.

You all have computers at home now. Before computers were very big…the

first one was about as big as this classroom. Who and how do you think

computers were used back then?

Fashion in the past. Can you imagine wearing this?

Hundreds of years ago, this is how some people dressed. How do you think it was to

dress like this?

Farming: farming is very different today. Machines took over during

industrialization. How different was it? How do you think food was different?

Old televisions and radios. You have your mp3 players and flat screens. This is what they had in the past. How did they live with this? What

did they listen to and watch?

Phone operators: almost everyone owns a cell phone now. Before, you had to call an operator by dialing ‘0’ and she would connect you to the

person you wanted to reach. In some places, there were more than one

house for one phone number! How different was it?