"Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell." Picture this:You're rushing (finish) your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up to get it (do). How can you feel calm and happy?

    (invention) have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave us feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from (noise) cities often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they lead simple life.

    One family in the UK went "back in time" to seelife was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons Benjamin, 10, and Thomas,7, (spend) nine weeks in a house dating back to 1940. They had no microwave, computer or mobile phones.

    The grandmother, Molly, said, "It was hard (physical), but not mentally." She believed life was less materialistic."The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes," she said. The boys said they had less to fight over, their computer, for example. Benjamin also noticed that (he)grandmother had changed from being a trendy, beer-drinking granny to oneliked cooking things.