English Listening B2 Episode 02 - Track 01
Fill in the Blanks Exercise
TRACK 1
I would say that my modern lifestyle is from the
traditional lifestyle of, say, my grandmother. Especially . Nowadays,
most young women where I come from and go out to work, whereas in the
past, in my grandmother's generation, . My grandmother left school when
she was young, and married my grandfather. She never , although she
used to by sewing and making suits for people. She dedicated her life
to , her parents, her aunt, her children, her grandchildren. She cooked
and . She would get up early and go down to the market to buy fresh
fruit and vegetables from the local farmers, from the fishermen. We
still have a market that sells local produce. I suppose that tradition
. But it's much smaller than it used to be. People do most of their
shopping in the supermarket, so it's for the local fishermen and
farmers to make money. Their lifestyle is disappearing, and we only have a
to save it. A lot of farmers are now choosing to run 'Agritourism'
businesses instead—essentially —which is something that
before. Another tradition that is is home cooking. My grandmother
made every day. She would spend hours the family. She lived
a simple life. Nowadays, I think the are very different. We don't
have so much time to spend at home, so a lot of the of cooking and
making things at home . These days, it seems like nobody has time for
those . We use a machine or and put it in the microwave. I
would say this is another tradition which is . Also, when something
breaks, we and buy a replacement. But I remember my grandfather was
and making them work again. Our modern-day lifestyle is on
consumerism than in the past. Perhaps it's
