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Unit 5 Eighty Years Ago
Listen up! Listen to your teacher. 1 What has changed most since the 1950s? 2 How was the speaker's aunt’s television different from yours? 3 “access to” means a) a way into b) a way out of c) a picture of 4 If you went back to the 1950s, what would you miss most? Write what you think in your journal .
Reading Read the title of this non-fiction report. Look at the illustration. What do you think it will be about?
Predict the content based on the title and illustration.
Early Morning – Eighty Years Ago Eighty years ago, Pablo and Tomas were young boys in Belize. Their lives were very different from ours today. Most mornings they consumed Johnny cakes and fried beans for breakfast. Sometimes they ate fried manatee . Before they went to school, they had to do chores. Pablo began by drawing water from the well for the day’s washing, cleaning and cooking. Tomas’ job was to grind corn using a hand-grinding machine. He turned the handle for 20 minutes so that his mother would have flour to make tortillas for lunch.
Introduction – what the report is about
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• Listen up! Read aloud from Listening Text page 163. Prepare for this unit by telling students some of the things that were different when you were their age. This may be in the field of technology or ways in which your town or village has changed. Ask students to also ask their parents or grandparents what was different when they were children and to report back to the class.
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