Exploring the experience of child workers in the Victorian era | English

Starter quiz

The Victorian era was named after which monarch?
- 'Queen Victoria' ✓
A social class is a group in society with similar wealth and opportunities. Which of the following social classes would be more likely to be wealthy and hold power in society?
- The working class
- The ruling class ✓
- The lower class
What does a chimney sweep do?
- Chimney sweeps clean up any mess made when chimneys are built.
- Chimney sweeps clean inside the chimneys, removing soot and debris from fires. ✓
- Chimney sweeps worked in stately homes, keeping the grand fireplaces tidy.
When did the Victorian era begin?
- 1558
- 1837 ✓
- 1952
Which of the following is the definition of callous? Here it is used in a sentence: the callous man refused to help the girl.
- Cruel ✓
- Generous
- Hard
What does the verb 'to compel' mean? Here it is used in a sentence: the teacher compelled the pupils to comply with the rules.
- 'To follow'
- 'To force' ✓
- 'To fight'

Which of the following skills should you use before reading a complex text?
- Questioning
- Predicting ✓
- Clarifying
- Summarising
Which word, beginning with l, is a more formal way of saying 'child workers'?
- 'Labour' ✓
How would you describe Victorian attitudes to protecting child workers in comparison to attitudes today?
- More strict
- Less strict ✓
- About the same
Which of the following is not a comparative conjunction which indicates a similarity between ideas.
- Equally
- Likewise
- Nonetheless ✓
- In the same way
Which two comparative sentence stems are most useful for indicating a very clear difference in ideas?
- Despite X, Y.
- Whilst X, Y. ✓
- Whereas X, Y. ✓
Which of the following most accurately paraphrases the sentence: 'boys were inveigled out of the poorhouses'?
- Boys were persuaded, through deception, out of the workhouses. ✓
- Boys were stolen from poorhouses.
- Boys were stolen from workhouses.
- Boys were persuaded to leave the poorhouses.

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Attitudes towards child labour were less strict in the Victorian era.
There are more laws today than in Victorian Britain to protect children from unsafe working conditions.
Young boys from lower social classes were expected to do dangerous jobs in the Victorian era.
Comparative conjunctions are useful for connecting sentences to previous ideas.
Comparisons are useful when comparing differences between authors’ attitudes or ideas.

Comparisons are either clear similarities or clear differences.

Use examples from slides to demonstrate how comparisons are often more complex than ideas being completely similar or completely different.

Labour - work, particularly physical work, can be referred to as labour.
Compel - if you force or oblige someone to do something, you compel them to do it.
Chimney sweep - a chimney sweep was someone who would clean the channel above a fireplace, which takes smoke out of buildings.
Callous - callous people have a cruel disregard for others.
Mercenary - a mercenary is primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.