TESOL/Trends

Nobody plays with tops anymore.

Key sentences

Asking about trends	Describing trends
How have families changed over the past (time period) ?	Nobody (activity) like they used to.

Asking about trends	Describing trends
How have lifestyles changed?	Everybody is so much (comparative adjective) than they used to be.

Asking about trends	Describing trends
How will it be in the future?	At this rate, (noun) could disappear altogether.

Say these sentences without looking.

How have families changed over the past (time period) ?
time period	sentence
ten years	How have families changed over the past ten years ?
generation	How have families changed over the past generation ?
few years	How have families changed over the past few years ?
fifty years	How have families changed over the past fifty years ?

Nobody (activity) like they used to.
activity	sentence
has dinner together	Nobody has dinner together like they used to.
plays board games	Nobody plays board games like they used to.
plays outside	Nobody plays outside like they used to.
cooks dinner	Nobody cooks dinner like they used to.

Everybody is so much (comparative adjective) than they used to be.
comparative adjective	sentence
busier	Everybody is so much busier than they used to be.
more stressed out	Everybody is so much more stressed out than they used to be.
more worried	Everybody is so much more worried than they used to be.
more wasteful	Everybody is so much more wasteful than they used to be.

At this rate, (noun) could disappear altogether.
noun	sentence
traditional games	At this rate, traditional games could disappear altogether.
home cooked meals	At this rate, home cooked meals could disappear altogether.
traditional families	At this rate, traditional families could disappear altogether.
retirement	At this rate, retirement could disappear altogether.

Practice this conversation.

Asking about trends	Describing trends
How have families changed over the past (ten years) ?	Nobody (has dinner together) like they used to.

Asking about trends	Describing trends
How have lifestyles changed?	Everybody is so much (busier) than they used to be.

Asking about trends	Describing trends
How will it be in the future?	At this rate, (traditional games) could disappear altogether.

Change partners. Use your imagination and change the sentences.

Use your imagination. Make your own conversation.

Asking about trends	Describing trends
How have families changed over the past ... ?	Nobody ... like they used to.

Asking about trends	Describing trends
How have lifestyles changed?	Everybody is so much ... than they used to be.

Asking about trends	Describing trends
How will it be in the future?	At this rate, ... could disappear altogether.

Change partners. Use your imagination and make another conversation.

Asking about trends	Describing trends
Ask your partner how these things have changed: family structure. how children grow up. who has a job and who stays at home. how children play.	Describe the changes.

Resource type: this resource is a lesson in English as a second language.

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