2025-09-26 “Then & Now”: How Our Lives Have Changed

• Lesson Topic: ‘Then & Now’: How Our Lives Have Changed
• What we will do: We’ll travel back in time to 1990! In a fun game, we will use question cards to share and compare what our daily lives were like before the internet versus today. We’ll learn surprising things about each other and see how much has changed.
• Key Phrases/Vocabulary:
  • take for granted
  • landline phone
  • drastically
  • inconvenient
  • “I used to…” / “Nowadays, I…”
• Handouts: We will use question cards during our game.
• See you in class!

Optional At-Home Activities

• Option 1: Choose one prompt card from today that you didn’t get to answer. Write a short paragraph (3-5 sentences) comparing your life then and now for that topic.
• Option 2: Talk to a younger family member (a child or grandchild) about one of the topics from today. Notice how different their experience is.