Victorian way of life

Life in 19th century Britain was quite different from life now. Browse this page to find the answer to the following questions. Write down the answers in your notebook.

1-What was the name of Britain's queen?
2-What transport could you use if you wanted to fly in the 19th century?
3-What is the meaning of the word coal?
4-Where can you find coal?
5-Did all children go to school? Why/Why not?
6-Did girls usually go to school?
7-What lessons did they have at school?
8-What games did children play?
9-How many children were there in a family?
10-How old were often children who started to work?
11-Why did they have to work?


1-Her name was Queen Victoria.
2-A balloon.
3-It means "carbón".
4-You can find coal in mines.
5-No, they didn't. Because they worked.
6-No, they didn't. They usually studied at home.
7-They studied Maths, Languages, etc.
8-They played Tag, musical chairs, etc, usually in the street.
9-There were about 9 or 10 children or more in a family.
10-They were about 5 years old.
11-Because they had to help their families.

Have you ever made pottery?

Click on the picture below to do a listening activity.

Linking words

Let's practise! Click on the links below:

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
DESPITE/IN SPITE OF/HOWEVER/ALTHOUGH

Past Perfect vs Simple Past

Practice makes perfect! Click on the links below to do a few online exercises.

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exerci.se 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

Text 1: Orlando

Text 2: The Visitors

Pronunciation of -s/-es ending

Click on the image below to watch an explanation about the pronunciation of -s and -es.

Let's practice1.
Let's practice 2.

Present Perfect vs Simple Past

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Test your knowledge 

FOR vs SINCE 1
FOR vs SINCE 2

Present Perfect

If you click on the picture above, you will download the presentation we used in class.

Practice makes perfect!
Here are some links where you can practise this tense:
Present perfect 1
Present perfect 2
Present perfect 3
Present perfect 4
Present perfect 5

Click on the picture above to download the presentation we used in class.
Just, yet, already 1
Just, yet, already 2
Just, already

Kahoot game (just/already/yet/ever)
Kahoot game (Present perfect and vocabulary)

Suffragettes

Historically speaking, women's suffrage, i.e. the right to vote in elections, is a remarkably recent development in the modern world. For instance, you'd be surprised to learn that Swiss women got this basic right in 1971. 

Nowadays women can vote in most countries, but women had to fight hard to be allowed to go to the polls. The so-called suffragettes epitomize this struggle. Some of them even became martyrs to the cause.

 Before you watch the video, do this vocabulary preparation activity:

Watch the video above and match the questions and answers:

Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom was a movement to fight for women's right to vote. It finally succeeded through two laws in 1918 and 1928. It became a national movement in the Victorian Era.

Browse the Internet to find the answer to the questions below. 

1. Were all suffragettes upper class?
2. Why is the suffragette Emily Wilding-Davison well known?
3. What was Emily Wilding-Davison's most famous exploit - the one that killed her?
4. What were the names of Emmeline Pankhurst's daughters that helped her set up the suffragettes?
5. Who was the first woman to go on hunger strike?
6. When all suffragette prisoners started to go on hunger strike, what did the authorities do to begin with?
7. Who formed the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies?
8. When was the Women's Suffrage and Political Union formed?
9. When did women get the parliamentary vote in the UK?
10. What was the difference between suffragettes and suffragists?

Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote.

Click on her picture to find out more about her.