2. Decade Of
Change
• The 1960’s left the past behind, breaking off into
new exciting paths of the future. There were great
advances in science, fashion, language and
technology due to the presence of the 1940’s baby
boom.
• Although many of the 60’s clichés are often joked
about, many of them are in fact true.

3. • With the economy buoyant, unemployment almost non-existent and wages
steadily rising, millions of families bought their first cars, washing machines,
fridges and televisions.
• Even the nation's diet was changing, transformed not just by the arrival of foreign
imports from chicken tikka masala to spaghetti bolognese, but by the relentless
advance of the supermarket.
• From the new tower blocks springing up in cities across the country to the radios
in teenagers' bedrooms, from Beatles hits and Bond films to comprehensive
schools and nuclear power stations, Sixties Britain seemed to be a country reborn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcEX
Zcv2Q-c

4. Demonstrations
People were demonstrating in an effort to try and
stop the Vietnam war.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education
/topics/antiwar-demos.htm

5. Additions to the dictionary
• Hippie
• Sexism
• Genetic code
• Megabyte
• Jetlag

6. 1960’s Slang
• Blitzed – drunk
• Cherry- best condition
• Chop – a person you dislike
• Don’t have a cow- don’t be upset
• Groovy- nice
• Heat - police