Food for thought








Watch the video carefully and answer the following questions:
1. When did the Industrial Revolution take place?
2. What were those who owned the land called?
3. How were the new machines powered?
4. How did the new machines work?
5. Where was the work done?
6. New inventions were applied first in...
7. Where could products be sold now?
8. Where did many families move to?
9. Which new social class appeared during the Industrial Revolution?
10. Why did industrial towns become black?
11. Where were some of the worst working conditions?
12. How much was a child paid?
13. How long did children work?
14. How old were children when they started to work?
15. Who inspired and created the first unions?
16. What's the name of the present revolution?


CONTENIDOS:
- Listen and understand specific information about the Industrial revolution.
- Produce an oral exposition on the problems about child labour nowadays
- Read autonomously a text about child labour in the Industrial Revolution.
- Produce approppriate answers to questions about the text.
- Produce appropriate oral expositions.
- Use of appropriate structures: present simple, past simple, passive, connectors
- Vocabulary related to materials,equipment,machines,illnesses in the context of the Industrial Revolution

DESCRIPCIÓN:
The students watch a video carefully about the Industrial Revolution. Then they are given a worksheet with 16 questions they have to answer while watching the video a few more times.
We read the text Child labour in the Industrial Revolution and check the vocabulary. The students are requested to do some vocabulary and comprehension activities.
Individually the students prepare a poster or a PP presentation about child labour today or Charles Dickens and his book Oliver Twist.
Finally they will have to explain their project in front of the class.
 
OBJETIVOS:
Listen and understand the information about The Industrial Revolution from a video.
Read and understand a text about child labour in the Industrial Revolution
Practise tenses studied.
Learn and practise vocabulary related to the Industrial Revolution
Pronounce correctly.

COMPETENCIAS:
Comunicación lingüística
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Tratamiento de la información
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Social y ciudadana

Matemática

Autonomía e iniciativa personal
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Cultural y artística
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Conocimiento e interacción con el mundo físico y natural
X
Aprender a aprender
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COMPETENCIAS LINGÜÍSTICAS
 
Comprensión
Oral
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Escrita
X



Expresión oral
Interacción oral


Expresión oral
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Expresión escrita

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CHILD LABOUR
Mill owners wanted to keep their prices down and that was why workers’ hours had to be long and wages low. Women and
children got lower wages than men, so the owners employed a lot of women and children. Children as young as six or seven worked up to fourteen hours a day and their pay was about 15 shillings (15p.) a week. Many of them were killed or injured by the machines they had to clean.
Some decent employers paid their workers a fair salary. Some even built good houses for them and ran schools for their children. Some mill-owners took part in a movement for factory reform. But most of the owners were against that reform because if children worked less hours, the costs would go up and bring their ruin.
The Parliament passed some acts to cut children working hours. The acts banned all children under nine from cotton mills and there were strict controls on the hour that children over nine worked. By 1847, ten hours per day was the limit for boys and all female workers.
Now we are going to read and analyse some testimonies about child labour during the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
With the information given you are going to write a report about child labour conditions during the Industrial Revolution in britain. You will have to speak about:
  • Main jobs occupied by children.
  • Salary.
  • Working hours.
  • Eating conditions.
  • Punishments.
  • Consequences of their job (accidents) and treatment received.
  • Actions carried out by the government to improve child labour conditions.
REFERENCES
  • images.encarta.msn.com (children working in a factory).
  • www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
Child Labour in Victorian England

Diary of a Victorian Child Worker

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Hypatia
There was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such attainments in literature and science, as to far surpass all the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explained the principles of philosophy to her auditors, many of whom came from a distance to receive her instructions. On account of the self-possession and ease of manner which she had acquired in consequence of the cultivation of her mind, she not infrequently appeared in public in the presence of the magistrates. Neither did she feel abashed in going to an assembly of men. For all men on account of her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her the more.[7]


October best sentences:

 Don't cry over spilled milk
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
A stitch in time, saves nine
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere
Everyone has an Achiles' heel
Forgiveness is the best revenge
A friend in need, a friend indeed
The dog that barks doesn't bite

September quizz:

What does "Put Van the Man in the juke box" mean? Ed Sheeran uses that expression in a couple of songs. Can you say one of them? Who is Van the Man?

September sentences:

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" Mahatma Gandhi

"Tell me and I'll forget. Teach me and I'll remember: Involve me and I'll learn" Benjamin Franklin

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