Hippies

Hippies

1. This lifestyle really shocked their parents. However, it was not only their lifestyle that shocked, their appearance did too. Both boys and girls had very long hair, often with flowers in it. They used to wear flared trousers or long skirts and sometimes went barefoot.

2. Today most hippies are hippies no longer. They live middle-class lives and worry about their children and paying the bills!

3. So what did they do? They „dropped out“. They left their comfortable middle-class homes and formed communes. These were often in the countryside and there they used to grow vegetables and keep farm animals. They went to open-air pop concerts where some of them danced naked and took drugs. They went on protest marches against war, particularly the war in Vietnam.

4. They were against many things: materialism in society, the boring routine of nine-to-five jobs, ordinary family life and war. Their slogan was „Make love, not war“.

5. Hippies were young people, mainly from the middle classes, who rebelled against society in the sixties and early seventies.

1. Dejte odstavce do správného pořadí

2. Najděte formy "used to"

3. Vytvořte věty s formou "used to"

Example: This town’s so ugly. – It used to be so pretty.

There are so many tourists. – There didn’t use to be any tourists.

1. The houses are very expensive.

2. The streets are dirty.

3. There is so much litter on the streets.

4. The car parks are always full.

5. There is a lot of traffic on the roads.

6. It’s noisy at night.

7. Andy’s changed! He’s so miserable!

8. And he’s really mean.