Our groups decided to record scenes to represent the situations in Spanish homes in the past and now. We have seen that in the past. In this recording the time is 1937 during the time of the civil war in Spain.
It is the grandmother that gets up early and tries to find food, the grandfather looks after the animals and tries to grow things. Then from 1936 to 75 they explain that it is their mothers that are doing housework and looking after the children while the fathers are out at work.
Then in the period 1982 to 96 it is the period of the socialist governments after the dictatorship. Things are now different because both parents are now working and sharing responsibilities for looking after their children, with the help of their grandparents.
Another of our groups commented a similar situation but this time but also added that their grandparents had a lot of children, six to eight, and were unable to study. They describe the same divisions between men and women. When they talk about today they also mention that men and women both work. Talking about themselves they say that their opportunities and much more equal as they can all study and work.
Here our students describe a classical situation where the men didn't do certain jobs because they were women's work in the past. Then they talk about the 21st century when the mother doesn't have to do the cooking because her husband volunteers to do it, a complete change.
Finally they believe that in the future there will be robots to do their homework and to cook for them, I wish!
The last recording is here if you would like to listen to it.
All our groups coincided in general in their opinions on what used to happen in the past and what happens now. Some of the details they give in their recordings are different but in the main the general ideas and the way we have progressed is the same.
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Theme three: Media and Communication
This is the summary for theme three.
All of us have mentioned the same things in our work on theme three. We all use computers, mobile phones, MP3s and other technolgical things for leisure and study.
In school we have a digital platform and the students who are in the first and second year use laptops in class for their work. We are all in Batxillerat, the sixth form, and we use computers and a projector in class with a touch sensitive screen. A lot of us study with Wikipedia and other pages on the internet and we often hand in our work using a word processor.
We love the X-box, playstation and all the other games consoles.
The computer we also use a lot for social sites like facebook, we all have facebook and other sites like Twitter. We download music, films and other stuff. Our mobile phones are equally important, we use them as MP3s and for chatting and sending messages.
The television is still an important part of our lives. When we were younger we watched lots of cartoons, like Dragonball Z and other Japanese ones. We all watch the same sort of programmes, lots of them are series or "reality shows". We know that a lot of the things we watch are rubbish.
We listen to the radio in the car or the shower and we sometimes read newspapers, though not much, or magazines. The magazines we read are normally about football or gossip.
When our parents were our age their world was very different.
For them TV was also important but they only had a couple of channels and they were in black and white. They used to listen to the radio a lot more than us and they read a lot more magazines and comics.
In general we use a lot more sorts of media than our parents did. We communicate in many different ways, ways that didn't exist when they were young. We think we are luckier than they were.
All of us have mentioned the same things in our work on theme three. We all use computers, mobile phones, MP3s and other technolgical things for leisure and study.
In school we have a digital platform and the students who are in the first and second year use laptops in class for their work. We are all in Batxillerat, the sixth form, and we use computers and a projector in class with a touch sensitive screen. A lot of us study with Wikipedia and other pages on the internet and we often hand in our work using a word processor.
We love the X-box, playstation and all the other games consoles.
The computer we also use a lot for social sites like facebook, we all have facebook and other sites like Twitter. We download music, films and other stuff. Our mobile phones are equally important, we use them as MP3s and for chatting and sending messages.
The television is still an important part of our lives. When we were younger we watched lots of cartoons, like Dragonball Z and other Japanese ones. We all watch the same sort of programmes, lots of them are series or "reality shows". We know that a lot of the things we watch are rubbish.
We listen to the radio in the car or the shower and we sometimes read newspapers, though not much, or magazines. The magazines we read are normally about football or gossip.
When our parents were our age their world was very different.
For them TV was also important but they only had a couple of channels and they were in black and white. They used to listen to the radio a lot more than us and they read a lot more magazines and comics.
In general we use a lot more sorts of media than our parents did. We communicate in many different ways, ways that didn't exist when they were young. We think we are luckier than they were.
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