Changes and Daily Habits

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Santa Monica College
Eric H. Roth
 
1. What is your name? How do you spell that?
2. What are your parents’ names? How do you spell that?
3. Where were your parents born?
4. How was your native country different a decade ago?
5. How has your country changed over the last hundred years?

6. How do you usually wake up? Do you use an alarm clock?
7. How did you come to school today?
8. Did your grandparents get around? Did they drive a car? Use a bus?
9. What time do you usually get up in the morning? An early riser?
10. Are you groggy? Are you a morning monster?
11. Can you describe your morning habits? Are you in a hurry?
12. Do you eat breakfast? What? Do you take vitamins?
13. Do you drink coffee? Tea? Where does the coffee come from? The tea?
14. Do you use any appliances in the morning? Where are they made?
 
15. Do you have a daily schedule? Are you usually well-prepared?
16. Did your grandparents have a daily schedule? How was it different?
17. Do you do many things at the last minute? Why?
18. Have your daily habits changed since living in America?
19. Are you self-disciplined? How?
20. What electronic devices do you have at home?
21. Do you have any electrical appliances? Which? Why? 
22. Can you think of anything that you have put off or postponed doing?
 
23. Do you prefer shopping in tidy or messy stores? Why?
24. How has shopping changed over the last 50 years?
25. Is your generation different from your parents’ generation? How?
26.Do you find the daily lifestyle in the United States frantic? Why?
27. Are you more comfortable with technology than your parents?
28. What technologies have been invented during your lifetime?
29. What is your favorite modern invention? Why?
30. Do you think it was easier to live in 1901 or 2001? Why?
31. Do you think people are more satisfied today than 100 years ago?

 

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