Starter quiz
- Someone who sweeps the soot out of chimneys is called a ...
- builder
- factory worker
- chimney sweep ✓
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- Not all children in Victorian times were able to go to school.
- True ✓
- False
- Select the things that could be dug from a mine.
- metal ✓
- coal ✓
- bricks
- wood
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- What is a historical source?
- deep holes dug in the ground
- something from the past that historians look at ✓
- someone who sweeps the soot out of chimneys
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- Which of these jobs would children do in Victorian times?
- mine worker ✓
- chimney sweep ✓
- climb trees
- factory worker ✓
- school teacher
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- Match the words to the description.
- Mine⇔where coal comes from ✓
- Heating⇔what coal was used for ✓
- Chimney sweep⇔job done by children ✓
Exit quiz
- Match the keyword to the definition.
- miners⇔people who work in mines ✓
- empire⇔when a country controls other groups of people or other countries ✓
- diamond⇔a precious gemstone found deep underground ✓
- The country of South Africa is the southern half of the whole continent of Africa.
- True
- False ✓
- Which country was Alice Kinloch born in?
- England
- France
- Scotland
- South Africa ✓
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- Miners in Africa were digging to find ...
- 'diamonds' ✓
- Miners in Africa worked in very ______ conditions.
- good
- bad ✓
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- Alice Kinloch wanted to ...
- be a diamond miner.
- have a holiday in England.
- make things fairer for diamond miners. ✓
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Key learning points
- Britain had an empire which meant it controlled a lot of places across the world, including countries in Africa.
- Towards the end of Victoria's reign, a woman called Alice Kinloch travelled a long way to come to Britain.
- Alice Kinloch was born in South Africa, and had come to Britain with an important mission.
- She wanted to speak out about the poor conditions that African miners faced when they worked to find diamonds.
- Alice helped to set up a group of people to speak up and help the miners in South Africa.
Common misconception
That 'South Africa' refers to the southern half of the continent of Africa.
'South Africa' is one single African country, which is located in the south of the continent of Africa. The south of africa (the part that sits in the southern hemisphere) covers a much larger area and includes 15 other individual African countries.
Keywords
Empire - when a country controls other groups of people or other countries, it has an empire
South africa - South Africa is a country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa
Diamond - a diamond is a precious gemstone found deep under the earth's surface that has taken millions of years to form
Miners - miners are people who work in mines, digging for coal, metals or precious stones like diamonds
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