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WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE BEFORE THE INTERNET?

• If you wanted to keep in touch with friends, you (1) just visit a social networking site. You (2) phone or talk to friends face to face.
• If you (3) to sell something like a bike, you were (4) put an advert in a local newspaper. These days you (5) to reach thousands of potential buyers through sites such as OLX or eBay.
• Online encyclopedias didn’t exist. As a student, once I only (6) find information for an assignment by spending two days in the library.
• Music came from shops in the form of CDs. Nowadays it (7) be downloaded online. Obviously a good thing? Well, you (8) pay for it but many people download illegally.
• Before life online, as a kid I was (9) to write long thankyou letters for birthday presents instead of (10) send a quick email. My parents were really strict. I (11) to play with any new toys until I’d written to everyone.
• You used to go to friends’ homes to watch their holiday videos. Thankfully, you (12) do this anymore. A quick look on a video sharing site is enough.

6 of my classmates after the 9th grade will try to go to college or technical school. If they pass the exams, they will have to study 2-4 years and then they plan to start working or maybe go on studying at the university. 2 of my classmates has told me that they are going to look for job and really don’t want to go on studying neither at school nor at college. The majority of my classmates are going to proceed with school education. Right now all of them plan to try to pass the exams to different universities. When I ask what are they going to do if they will not be accepted by any university after the 11th grade, everybody says that they’ll go on trying the next year, but nobody is really planning their life taking in mind the possibility of failure. One girl has told me that she would like to get married after school and start her own family. Two of my classmates have confessed that their parents are considering options of sending them abroad for further studies and work. 

6 of my classmates after the 9th grade will try to go to college or technical school. If they pass the exams, they will have to study 2-4 years and then they plan to start working or maybe go on studying at the university. 2 of my classmates has told me that they are going to look for job and really don’t want to go on studying neither at school nor at college. The majority of my classmates are going to proceed with school education. Right now all of them plan to try to pass the exams to different universities. When I ask what are they going to do if they will not be accepted by any university after the 11th grade, everybody says that they’ll go on trying the next year, but nobody is really planning their life taking in mind the possibility of failure. One girl has told me that she would like to get married after school and start her own family. Two of my classmates have confessed that their parents are considering options of sending them abroad for further studies and work.