Life Changes

Life changes
Listening exercise Select exercise

Listen to a radio program about changes in life in the last forty years. Do the activities below.

Listen again and match the topic with the speaker. Select Richie, Carmina, Irene or Alexander.

1 | This person talks about how investment decreased due to political and economic instability in some countries.

2 | This person talks about technological development and gives an example of a famous robot called Sophia.

3 | This person talks about music, primitive video games, and online work and school.

4 | This person talks about the way teenagers used to spend time when they had to do homework together.

Writing exercise

Read the text again. Then read the ideas 1-5, they all have mistakes, find them and rewrite each sentence in the correct form.

1. What did Richie and Carmina have in common when they were teenagers?
2. What is the main topic?
3. Which speakers’ experiences are closer to our reality? Why?
True or false exercise

Listen to the Podcast again and choose the best option for each statement.

1. Arcades, cinemas, music and hanging out with friends are the best memories from the 80s.

2. Walking on the street was as dangerous in the 90s as it is today.

3. Great technological development took place in 2005 in the USA.

4. Robots are now used to do chores and housework around the world because they are cheap to produce.

5. Streaming and modern Apps are replacing traditional TV and cinema.