l = This is easy m = This is okay n = This is difficult Reading: Life as a teenager in the 1990s a) Read the text about life as a teenager in the 1990s. The 1990s are just over twenty years past. The life of a teenager, though, was completely different then from what it is today. Imagine, for example, a teenager today without a mobile phone. In the 1990s, very few teenagers had mobile phones. The first mobile phones cost about $3,000 and they had a battery life of only 75 minutes! It also cost a lot actually to call someone with a mobile. There were no flat rates or unlimited minutes, as there are today. Teenagers in the 1990s loved music, such as teenagers today. In the 1990s, people started to use CDs more and more instead of music cassettes. Do you still have a CD player at home or even a cassette player? Buying music in the 1990s meant going to a music shop and actually buying a CD. This was much more expensive than today. Most teens had a few hundred songs in their CD shelves at home. Instead, many teens turned on the radio regularly to listen to their favourite songs for free. All young people knew which stations were hip and cool. In the 1990s, TVs were large and heavy. They took up much space in the living room. It was very important for teens and their parents when a TV programme was shown. Many families planned their whole lives around the times of their favourite shows. In between TV programmes there were long and frequent blocks of adverts. So, parents who wanted their teens to do something typically got the reply “I’ll do it during the advertisements.” b) Are the following sentences about life in the 1990s T (= true) or F (= false)? T F 1. Many teenagers had a mobile phone. 2. Mobile phones were more expensive then than today. 3. You had to pay for every minute of a telephone call. 4. CDs and music cassettes are the same. 5. You had to go to a music shop to buy music. 6. The radio wasn’t very popular. 7. You could watch your favourite TV shows whenever you wanted. 8. There were no adverts on TV. Speaking: Life as a teenager today Go back to task 9 and compare: How is your life as a teenager different? Give a short presentation in front of the class. 9 5 10 15 l m n I can understand a short text about an interesting topic. 10 l m n I can talk about a topic that has to do with my life. 78 9 Unit What if …? Show what you can do xr44az seventy-eight Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentu des Verlags öbv
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