Entertainmentphoto story and documentation

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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?

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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

- 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 shoppingchildren

(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…

ShoppingShopping

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 analysisTravel 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

1980 50% of the pages

2012 13% 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….

EntertainmentEntertainmentexchanging Information – writing and talking

making and listening to music

theatre and film

(from the Stone Age till (from the Stone Age till today)today)

from smoke signal to SMS

cave painting ~ 45000 BC

letters existed already inBabylon, Egypt, ancient Greece…

morse codearound 1840

telephone~ 1880

SMS ~ 1990

from handmade to electronic music

electronic musical instruments

~ 19th century

synthesizer~ 1950

handmadeinstruments

are as old as

Human beings

plastic instruments~ 1950

digital Musical instruments~ 1980

from street theatre to internet

street theatrefamous already

in Europe in the 17th century

(Roman theatres)modern theatres

~ 1850

cinema~ 1900

Internet andwireless~ 1990-2000

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?

© The German Comenius-Team 2012-14

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