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Lifestyle and food, then and now.

Talking about lifestyle and food
• Describe how your lifestyle is nowadays.
• Describe how you feed yourself.
• Describe how was your parents’ lifestyle when
they were your age (15, 16,17 years old).
• Describe how they feed themselves when they
were teens.

CRYPTOGRAM
I. Figure out the hidden phrase.
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VOCABULARY
II. Match column A with its corresponding synonym (B) and
antonym (C).

A SYNONYM (B) ANTONYM (C)

1. facilities refined incompetent

2. simple stylish difficulties

3. traditional cozy uncomfortable

4. complex efficiencies hard

5. efficient uncomplicated old-fashioned

6. comfortable classical rare

7. modern competent uncool

8. sophisticated tortuous easy

READING
III. Read the text and underline with 2 different colors the
information in past (simple-progressive) and present
(simple-progressive).

LYFESTYLE & FOOD: in the past and nowadays.

October 18, 2016 Posted by Gayathri

Although there is a definite difference between past and

present lifestyles, the difference between these two
concepts may differ according to income, access to
modern facilities, equipment, education, and lifestyle.
There are some communities in the world who do not get
access to many modern facilities and technological
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inventions. Therefore, the difference between past and present lifestyles can be a
very subjective topic and the differences here might differ in various people’s
experience.

The key difference between past and present

lifestyles is that the past lifestyle was simple,
traditional, home-based lifestyle with a self-
sufficient economy and simple tools. Present
lifestyle, on the other hand, is complex, efficient,
comfortable, and modern, highly technological,
and has bases on a profit maximizing production
economy. The complexity or sophistication of the
lifestyle may depend on the income level,
geographical location, and culture.

We can compare the Past and Present Lifestyles under many different areas such
as attitudes, feelings of people, and thinking capacity of people, food habits, clothes,
housing, transport, use of tools and machinery, education system, economy, etc.

Before Stone Age, people ate fruits, leaves and anything they found from the forest.
But this habit changed into hunting animals, preserving food items and planting and
growing vegetables, which eventually led into farming different crops like maize,
corn, and rice. People were healthy, they rarely had diseases and never needed
extra exercise cause their daily work kept their bodies running.

At present, the agriculture is a mass scale-production, including machinery,

technology, pesticides, and weedicides, all which came in with the green revolution.
With green revolution agriculture and the traditional farming culture turned upside
down. As for now, farmers who can cope up with the multi-national cooperation’s
and their large-scale, expensive products, pesticides and high-yielding varieties of
seeds, keep producing crops for the market. Yet the traditional, low-income farmers
even today, especially in Asian countries, are in a dire state. Fast food is another
major factor in modern food habits. Although many people find it convenient, it leads
to many health conditions. Today people are unhealthy, needs medicine and
functions on diets and exercise machines.
TAKEN AND ADAPTED FROM: https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-past-and-vs-present-lifestyle/ ( April 2024).
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IV. Fill in the chart and complement it where necessary.

THEN NOW

V. Give answers to the following questions.

1. How does the author describe past lifestyle?

2. How does he describe present lifestyle?

3. The author mentions other areas related to lifestyle. Which ones does he mention?

4. What did people eat in the past?

5. How did the food they eat influenced on their health?

6. What do people eat in the present?

7. How does food we eat affects our health?

8. What does the author say about agriculture?

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LISTENING
VI. Listen to “Health: before and after” and complete the
sentences with words from the box.

HEALTH BEFORE &

NOW.mp3

1. People died by their _____ birthday. PERSONAL

2. Hospitals had a lack in _____ and patient respect. WASHED

3. Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were _____ at any drugstore. LONGER

4. Women just _____ their hair once a month with borax or egg yolks. FIFTHIETH

5. Nowadays, people are _____ and _____. STINKY

6. Now, people live _____ than before. BRUSHING

7. _____ teeth and _____ unwanted hair are common habits. AVAILABLE

8. Now, people don’t stand a _____ person near them. TALLER

PREVENTION

REMOVING

FATTER
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EXPRESS PAST AND PRESENT SITUATIONS,

EVENTS OR ACTIONS.
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BEFORE and AFTER

VII. Watch the video “Fast food restaurants then and now” and
write short paragraphs comparing them. Use simple past
and present simple.
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TAKEN FROM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-WDIycSTdU (April 2024).

EXAMPLE:

Long time ago, kids played outside,

and they did it with simpler toys.
Now, they play with video games, and
they do it very lonely.