3. Child labour in the 19th century.

a. Read the third paragraph and find out where working children did
these jobs in Victorian times:

They scared birds.
They carried stones and coal.
They worked on the open markets.
They picked vegetables.
They cleaned machines.
• coal mines
• mills
factories.
streets
• fields
b. Check your answers with your teacher, then write a few lines about the children in the 19th
century. What were they allowed or not allowed to do? What did they have to do?....
Ex.: Before 1880 parents did not have to send their children to school. Poor children had to work.
4. Now recap about Victorian times.
Put the elements back together and write the sentences.
needed more workers.
The British industry developed Poor children had thanks to new sources of energy
The new British factories to work and couldn't go to school.
Thanks to the colonies Britain During Victorian times Britain
became one of the richest countries
got a lot of raw materials.
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in the world.
and new transport.