Talking about changes to culture with be and get used to
be used to and get used to review/ arts and media vocabulary lead in
What major changes have there been to arts, media and culture since you were younger? Which have been easiest and most difficult to get used to?
Are any of these among the biggest changes?
- 3D movies
- 4D movies
- celebrities on social media
- connecting devices by Bluetooth (to stream to your TV etc)
- computer animation
- deep fake videos
- digital television
- DVDs
- EDM
- foreign-language dramas
- hard disk recorders
- mp3
- no smoking in cinemas
- on-demand television/ asynchronous watching
- online media (TikTok, etc)
- online news
- openly LGBTQI+ TV personalities/ celebrities
- reanimated dead actors
- satellite television
- second screening
- smart speakers
- smartphones
- special effects
- streaming movies and TV
- vertical videos
- watching on small screens
Which of those were easiest and most difficult to get used to?
How interested are you in current and/ or past pop culture (pop music, popular TV programmes, celebrities, etc)?
How knowledgeable are you about current and/ or past pop culture? (= How much do you know about pop culture?)
Take a pop culture quiz and see who has higher and lower scores.
Report back to the class on how similar or different the quiz results and your previous discussion were.
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