A webquest about different generations for esl students

1. GENERATIONS
1) Listen and read the text “ The turbulent 60s” at
http://readingworkbook.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/the-turbulent-1960s-from-voa.html and
do the comprehension check.
COMPREHENSION CHECK
1. Timothy Leary, a former university professor and researcher urged a crowd in San Francisco to
"_____________________ ."
a: get a good job in a university
b: tune in and drop out
c: avoid the brain damaging drug, LSD
d: write a letter to their parents to thank them for their role in bringing them into the world
2. As children grew up in the 1960s, they began to question their parents' 1950s style middle class values.
These values included _______________________ .
a: a strong belief in hard work
b: a strong patriotic support of the United States
c: strong religious values
d: all of the above
3. The Feminine Mystique ___________________.
a: was a highly erotic novel
b: argued that women have no professional lives
c: argued that women should spend more time with their children
d: stated that it was completely impossible to understand women at all
4. The Beatles song that became enormously popular at the end of 1963 was "______________________" .
a: I Want to Hold Your Hand
b: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
c: Blowin' in the Wind
d: Yesterday
5. In March of 1968, Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not run for another term because
______________________ .
a: he wanted to write his memoirs instead
b: there were so many protests against the Vietnam War
c: he felt that he had successfully created the Great Society

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d: his party didn't support him
6. Probably the greatest influence on the emerging value system of the 1960s was __________________ .
a: literature
b: philosophy
c: music
d: communism
7. Young people such as the group that celebrated music at the Woodstock music festival were called
"hippies". They believed _______________ .
a: only violent action could stop the war
b: smoking grass was the best thing to do
c: in more love and personal freedom
d: in getting a haircut as soon as possible
8. Two assassinations took place in 1968 within weeks of each other. They were ____________________ .
a: John Kennedy and Martin Luther King
b: Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy
c: John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
d: Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy
9. John F. Kennedy __________________________________ .
a: was the first president born in the Twentieth Century
b: was the oldest man to be elected president
c: served two terms as president
d: defeated Lyndon Johnson to become president
10. In 1963, many people were deeply pessimistic about the future and lost hope largely because of
__________________________ .
a: changes in society
b: the threat of communism
c: the assassination of John F. Kennedy
d: the beginnings of the rebellion of young people against their parents' generation
2) Watch this video and answer the following questions:
1. How old was Keith when his dad died?

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2. His mum was pretty __________ ( character adjective)
3. As a child, how long did he use to watch TV? When?
4. Keith’s children didn’t spend so much time out as he did. What was the most important
reason?
5. If Keith and his children wanted to watch Tv they had to give his wife something. What?
6. What, in Keith’s opinion, is the problem with having a lot to choose from?
7. What made Maria uneasy when she was at school?
8. Maria’s mum was ____________ and _____________ (character adjectives)
9. Name two things she wasn’t allowed to do as a child.
10. What’s Merinda’s age?
11. What does Amy do?
12. What did Merinda do so that her children could remember meal time rules?
13. Why is so important for Merinda that children get enough sleep?
14. What kind of food wasn’t Amy allowed to eat as a child?
15. Amy says they used to do something before bed. What?
16. What did Amy use to argue about with her mum?
17. What percentage does Amy think mums are right?
3) Read “The swinging sixties” on page 110 from your Student’s book and
answer the questions from exercise 3. Surf the internet to answer the
questions from exercise 4.