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Was school interesting today? My class asked people of different age groups about their free time. What kind of entertainment did you talk about?

Survey on Entertainment

Free time in everyday life children (our generation) our parents our grand- parents - meeting friends - playing instru- ments - sports - reading - cinema - shopping - sports - meeting friends - being outside - sports - meeting friends - reading - disco / club - learning - sometimes: jobs - photography

Free time in our holidays children (our generation) our parents our grand- parents - travelling - relaxing - travelling - sports - scouts - sometimes: travelling - campsites - scouts - sports - sometimes: job

From milk bar to McDonald‘s children (our generation) our parents our grand- parents - at home - a lot of restaurants - at home - ice cream parlour - dairy man - milk bar - dairy man Going out for Entertainment - sleepovers - cinema - theatre - disco- cinema - dancing

Children‘s birthday parties children (our generation) our parents our grand- parents - programme for friends - rarely at home - sleepovers - cinema - theatre - playing with friends and having cake - family

Clothes and shopping children (our generation) our parents our grand- parents - shops - online shopping - shops (in the city) - at the tailor‘s - shops (city or village) Shopping while travelling - family and friends get a present - local food or things - collecting sea shells

Where did you go after school today? You didn‘t come home for lunch. I had lunch with Jil and Zane, her guest from Latvia. We did some live shopping. Grandma, I have got a question. Did you do this kind of shopping when you were young? Oh no! I don‘t even know what it is. In former times, shopping was very different and no fun…

Shopping

Past vs. Today corner shop (very small shops) → shopping malls shopping with parents → shopping with friends things were bought in pounds (500g) → things are bought in packages almost every district/city had a market-day → there are barely any market-days with big markets prices were cheaper→ a lot of things are more expensive

shopping was necessary → it‘s like a hobby shops closed very early, at 6.30 p.m. and on Saturdays at 2 p.m. → A lot of shops are open until 8 or 10 p.m. and propose also,,Midnight-Shopping‘‘

Mail-Order-Catalogues first catalogue published in 1872 only one page things are illustrated and there‘s a short description of the product examples of clothes : Neckermann and Bonprix

Online-Shopping it‘s carried out on the internet there are also applications for smartphones example: Zalando (since 2008)

Live - Shopping Trend from the USA A product is offered for a certain period on TV, so the customer has to buy it immediately by phone

Yes mum, I bought a guidebook for travelling to Latvia. The modern travelguides that people take along for holidays don‘t look like yours. Oh that‘s really different… Did you buy anything, darling?

For example, could you present some travel guides of the past and today? That‘s a good idea. Maybe we can better understand the development from past travel guides to modern ones. Yes, sure! I will show you a travel guide of the past and today. They‘re about Sicily, Crete and London.

published in 2000 published in 1978 Travel guide analysis

But are the contents of the travel guides from the past and of today the same? Which travel guides have information about what kind of sights? In which travel guides can you find more information about events and restaurants? Here you can see the new travel guide from 2005 on the left and the old one from 1979 on the right.

In travel guides of the past, you can find more pages with general information about a city or a country. Example: London % of the pages % of the pages On the left is the old one from 1980 and on the right is the new one from 2012

Travel guides of the past always have a lot of information about culture, monuments and art, but very little information about shopping. Modern ones have more information about very famous sights and shopping malls. In today‘s travel guides you can find more information about restaurants, pubs, events, parties and beaches than in the old ones.

Here you see pages of the new travel guide (2005). Here you can see pages of the old travel guide (1979). Here is 2012 on the left and 1980 on the right.

To sum it up: Travel guides adapt to the changing interests and demands of tourists in respect to a city or a country.

Grandma, when you were a child which technological means of entertainment did already exist? Well, if you look back in history and when I cast back my mind, the technological development was important and changed our lives….

Entertainment (from the Stone Age till today) Entertainment exchanging Information – writing and talking making and listening to music theatre and film (from the Stone Age till today)

from smoke signal to SMS cave painting ~ BC letters existed already in Babylon, Egypt, ancient Greece… morse code around 1840 telephone ~ 1880 SMS ~ 1990

from handmade to electronic music electronic musical instruments ~ 19 th century synthesizer ~ 1950 handmade instruments are as old as Human beings plastic instruments ~ 1950 digital Musical instruments ~ 1980

from street theatre to internet street theatre famous already in Europe in the 17 th century ( Roman theatres) modern theatres ~ 1850 cinema ~ 1900 Internet and wireless ~ TV ~ 1950 computer ~ 1980 YouTube 2005

Wow, that was a really interesting afternoon. We have learned so many new things while talking. And talking to each other is the best entertainment anyway, isn‘t it?

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