THE ALPHABET OF

THE 21st CENTURY

Made by M.Semeshko and

E.Makulkina

Minsk, 2015

A – Apple

Years ago, when people

said “Apple” they

understood a fruit…

And

now…

B – Books

Once upon a time a

book looked like this:

And today we can have

the whole library in

one e-book:

C – Car

(Electromobile Tesla Model S)

Somewhere in the 18th

century…

Somewhere in the 21st

century

D – Doctors

Doctors in the 14th

century looked like that:

… And in 21st century

they look like this:

(But… They haven’t

become less dreadful)

E– Ebay

It was

rather

difficult, I

suppose

But now it is easy

with…

F – Freedom

Nothing changes, as you can

see…

G – GM food

H – Hello!

We used to say to each

other:

But now we can get “Hello!” a little bit wrong,

because of…

I – Internet

Everything is

easier and faster

today …

J – Jam

Years ago people, saying “jam”, meant only

this:

But now we also have TRAFFIC jam!

(Mmm… Yum-yum)

K – King

And what’s wrong with

“king”?..

L – Letter

It was so

difficult to

communicate

over a

distance…

But not

today!

M – Mobile Phone

The difference between generations is

evident!

N – Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte

used to be a French

military and political

leader.

But then he

became a cake…

O – One Republic

And now we have only one

“OneRepublic”:

P – Pictures

It took him much

time, I think…

Fortunately,

today we don’t

have such

problems!

Q – Quest

Our computer

games have

also changed

greatly

R – Roberto Cavalli

Somewhere in the Ice

Age…

Somewhere

Today…

S – Skype

And again a little

bit about

communication..)

T – Theatre (movie

theatre)

U – Urban

Decay (cosmetics)

Women always wanted to be

Beautiful… Thank God, today we

have cosmetics!!!

V – Vacuum CleanerIt was so difficult to do all the household

chores…

Today it is also difficult

:(

W – Wi-Fi

X – X-rayMany years ago people knew only “sun”

rays But today we know:

Ray Ban X-ray

Y– Youtube

Z - Zero

There are some

things that never

change, that don’t

lose their

meaning…

THE ENDTHANK YOU FOR

WATCHING!