Living conditions

Writing task: Write an article

Write an article about how life has changed in your country in the last 100 years. Useful language
Write about the topics below. Time phrases
• In the past …
Use the Useful language and the notes you wrote in the Engage task to help you
• Then, …
prepare. Write around 100 words.
• In those days …
Tip  Use the present perfect tense to describe a situation that has changed. Use the • Nowadays …
past simple tense to describe a finished time in the past. Use the present simple tense • Now …
to describe life as it is now. • These days ...
• How transport has changed
Phrases for comparing
• How technology has changed • People eat (more / less)
• How clothes have changed than in the past.
• How food has changed • Families are (bigger /
• How the size of families has changed smaller) than in the past.
• How people spend their time now compared with in the past • People spend (more /
less) time + -ing verb ...

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