This presentation was created by a whole group of students (4ºC) in IES El Tablero, and it deals with the ghanges in our lifestyles in the recent past and the way they affect the environment. It's part of the Comenius Healthy Lifestyles Project

1. LIFESTYLES: PAST AND PRESENT

2. OH MY GOD! MY NINTENDO
IS BROKEN!
DARLING, COME HERE, I’M
GOING TO TELL YOU
SOMETHING.

3. Juanito, when I was a child, we didn’t
have TV,
dishwasher or microwave… and our
mothers had to do everything by hand.
And we didn’t have computers,
videogames… If we wanted to have fun,
we went and played in the street with our
friends. We just played hide and seek,
marbles or just raced each other. Those
were wonderful times!

4. Environment is largely affected by the needs of human beings.
In the past vast natural spaces provided plenty of fresh air.
However, due to the increase in population and the industrial
revolutions, green areas have been destroyed to build towns
and industrial areas.
Industries and cities have polluted the rivers, the oceans and
the atmosphere.
Excessive use of plastic and pesticides together with an
inappropriate disposal of waste have added to the problem.
We should look back into the past and see what has gone wrong
with our lifestyles.

5. Transport, years ago

6. How did our grandparents
go to school or to work?

7. Transport, nowadays
We can travel in modern comfortable vehicles.

8. How do we go to school or to work?

9. Do we use modern means of transport in a
reasonable way?
Vehicles powered by petrol
or diesel engines pollute a
lot. They release carbon
dioxide which is the cause
of the greenhouse effect.
Scientists are working on
cleaner means of transport
but in the meanwhile we
have to take advantage of
public transport and walk or
cycle whenever it’s possible.

10. Appliances,
years ago

11. In the past most housework was done by hand, they didn’t use
much electricity or fossil fuels. It was a very hard life for women
who used to do these tasks.

12. Moreover food didn’t use to have much
packaging and was usually transported in
baskets, cloth bags, cardboard boxes, etc.

13. Modern
appliances
These wonderful inventions
make life comfortable and
much more pleasant.

14. Nowadays we use very modern washing machines
and driers.
We wash the dishes in the dishwasher and have
ovens and microwave ovens to make cooking
quicker.
We keep the food in powerful fridges and freezers.

15. Food comes in lots of different kinds of packaging:
glass, metal and lots of plastic.
.

16. All those things have a big impact on the environment.
Electrical devices make our lives easier, but they use a lot of energy and
become expensive to recycle waste.
Plastics take hundreds of years to disintegrate, and their manufacturing
process pollutes a lot.
We can avoid excesses in the use of electrical devices, and plenty of
products have unnecessary plastic packaging.

17. FARMING WORK
Farming was very hard work
and it was the occupation of the
poorest part of the population.

18. Nowadays, farming has become much more
productive so that it can feed the growing
population and it has also become lighter work
for farmers. But modern machines use a lot fuel.

19. Free Time, years ago

20. Our grandparents’ and parents’ games:
Spinnig top Marbles
Hoop hopscotch Skipping rope

21. Free Time, nowadays
Nowadays children often
play videogames and
watch too much
television.

22. These means that children sometimes live a sedentary
life and also we generate tons of electronic waste

23. School
years ago

24. Our grandparents’ schools
were very different to the
ones that we have today.
They had quite simple
school material
They used little
blackboards instead of
using notebooks.
Books were reused and
kept in families or schools
for years to be used by
different generations of
students.

25. Our high schools, have computers and digital
blackboards. These make learning much nicer.
Our books are constantly changing because they
write nicer looking new editions.
We sometimes discard stationary from last year and
buy new one we don’t need.
It’s possible to reuse materials and choose
ecological options.

26. Our lifestyle is in part responsible for many environmental problems:
•Acid rain.
•Greenhouse effect.
•Extinction of some species.

27. However there are also good news. In the last years lots of
advances have taken place in the field of “clean” energies.
We are already getting some of our energy from renewable
sources:
•Wind power
•Sun power
•Hydraulic power,
•Geothermal power

28. Our current way of life has changed a lot thanks to technological
advances. Life is much more comfortable, we live longer thanks
to modern medicine, we have plenty of possibilities of travelling
and having fun. But we have to stop and think how much energy
we can afford if we want to preserve our planet.
We have also to think about how much we
need to consume or when it is possible to
avoid creating waste rather than only
recycling it.

29. Will we achieve the
balance?