Our groups decided to record scenes to represent the situations in Spanish homes in the past and now. We have seen that in the past. In this recording the time is 1937 during the time of the civil war in Spain.
It is the grandmother that gets up early and tries to find food, the grandfather looks after the animals and tries to grow things. Then from 1936 to 75 they explain that it is their mothers that are doing housework and looking after the children while the fathers are out at work.
Then in the period 1982 to 96 it is the period of the socialist governments after the dictatorship. Things are now different because both parents are now working and sharing responsibilities for looking after their children, with the help of their grandparents.
Another of our groups commented a similar situation but this time but also added that their grandparents had a lot of children, six to eight, and were unable to study. They describe the same divisions between men and women. When they talk about today they also mention that men and women both work. Talking about themselves they say that their opportunities and much more equal as they can all study and work.
Here our students describe a classical situation where the men didn't do certain jobs because they were women's work in the past. Then they talk about the 21st century when the mother doesn't have to do the cooking because her husband volunteers to do it, a complete change.
Finally they believe that in the future there will be robots to do their homework and to cook for them, I wish!
The last recording is here if you would like to listen to it.
All our groups coincided in general in their opinions on what used to happen in the past and what happens now. Some of the details they give in their recordings are different but in the main the general ideas and the way we have progressed is the same.
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