1. Entertainment Now & Then LEARNING CIRCLES 2007

2. PROJECT BY AMEERA AL BALUSHI ISA TOWN SECONDARY COMMERCIAL SCHOOL With MOHAMMED AL JAMAL AHMED AL OMRAN SECONDARY SCHOOL & AMAL MALALLA KHAWLA SECONDARY SCHOOL

3. Entertainment: Now & Then “It’s funny how things change in few hours or less. Looking back few years back I saw many empty places that are filled today with so many different things. No wonder we face problems with our parents and the older generation when we try to explain something…. It’s because their lives were so different from ours”. Meaád Murad

4. Entertainment: Now & Then That was how one of my students put it. Indeed we felt these differences through the interviews we had from so many different people.

5. Entertainment: Now BOYS They were mostly interested in: Football Football Basketball Basketball Watching TV Watching TV Chatting and browsing the net. Chatting and browsing the net. Bowling & Pool Bowling & Pool Car Racing Car Racing

6. Entertainment: Now BOYS were mostly interested in: Sayed Taher Ahmed Isa Hussain Ismael Ali Ibrahim Hassan A.Hussain Video Games Football Browsing the net

7. Entertainment: Now GIRLS were mostly interested in: Shopping specially in malls Shopping specially in malls Chatting on the net. Chatting on the net. Cinemas & Coffee shops Cinemas & Coffee shops Sports & Car Racing Sports & Car Racing Aysha Khalid Eman A.Ali Fareeba Asqar Asmaa A.Wadood Hana Mohammed

8. Entertainment: Now GIRLS were mostly interested in: Amal Jameel Marwa A.Aziz Haya Nabeel Marwa Matter Fatima Murad Fatima A.Ameer Fatima Al Ghatam Mariam Janeed Shereen A.Rahman Shopping specially in malls Chatting on the net. Cinemas & Coffee shops Sports & Car Racing Meaád Murad

9. Entertainment: Then Meaád Murad “I asked my Grandma once about what she used to do in her free time when she was my age. She laughed and told me that when she was my age she didn’t have any free time since she was married and with two kids to take care of.” Khadija & Alaá “In our opinion, our parents enjoyed their times more than us.”

10. Entertainment: Then They had to make do with what they had around them which made them more creative in their ways.

11. Entertainment: Then

12. Thanks & Acknowledgement Many thanks to: Amal Malalla & her students Mohammed Al Jamal & his students For their great contributions to the project.

13. Thanks & Acknowledgement To my students for their lovely work: Marwa A. Aziz Marwa A. Aziz Meaád Murad Meaád Murad Aysha Khalid Aysha Khalid Eman A. Ali Eman A. Ali Fareeba Asqar Fareeba Asqar Hana Mohammed Hana Mohammed Asmaa A. Wadood Asmaa A. Wadood