Read the selection below.
Life Before the Internet
Every generation has stories of what it was like to grow up in their day. My grandparents talked about walking all over the place. They walked miles and miles just to go to school every day. And they went to a one-room schoolhouse. My grandfather used to talk about finding nickel and a nail in his pocket to create noise as if he had more money. Most people have not had a lot back then.
Now, the stories we are telling our children and grandchildren are about life before the World Wide Web. Perhaps a few visionaries in the early ‘90s had some insights into how the internet would change our lives forever. But most of us didn’t know how far-reaching this technology would be. Today, the internet has an impact on just about everything we do.
Before the internet, families had had a whole collection of encyclopedias. We looked up in an encyclopedia whenever we wanted to know about something. We could learn more about what we knew now. And the children used them frequently for school studies. People used maps to find out where they are going. We also had a lesson on reading maps in school. My mother had written her mother and mother-in-law once a week before she got a smartphone. And they returned a letter once a week as well. It was ho w my grandparents knew what we were doing. We gave each other pretty stationery for gifts. And we looked forward to going to the mailbox since we received letters and not just junk mail.
ACTIVITY 3:
Pick at least 2 sentences in the simple past and 2 sentences in the past perfect from the
selection read.
SIMPLE PAST:
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PAST PERFECT:
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2. _____________________________________________________________________