Starter quiz
- If you have a lot of money and own many expensive things, you are...
- society
- wealthy ✓
- classes
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- In Victorian society, classes were based on how wealthy people were.
- True ✓
- False
- Who painted 'Work' in 1863?
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Michaelangelo
- Ford Madox Brown ✓
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- What job did the ‘navvies’ in the painting do?
- Digging up the road ✓
- Selling flowers
- They had no job.
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- Who was the Queen at the time of Victorian society?
- 'Victoria' ✓
- Classes in society were small groups, like classes at school.
- True
- False ✓
Exit quiz
- Only adults worked in factories in Victorian times.
- True
- False ✓
- Match the word to the correct meaning.
- factories⇔large buildings full of machines where people work to make things ✓
- chimney⇔carries smoke from a fire inside a building upwards and out to the sky ✓
- spire⇔a tall, narrow, point, usually on top of a church ✓
- Select all the problems of living in Victorian cities and towns.
- Lots of pollution ✓
- Lots of clean water
- Homes were very crowded. ✓
- People got very ill. ✓
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- All artists painted pretty pictures of cities in Victorian times.
- True
- False ✓
- Gustave Doré's engraving 'Over London - By Rail' shows a ______ image of London.
- good
- bad ✓
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- William Wyld's painting 'Manchester from Kersal Moor' shows a ______ image of Manchester.
- good ✓
- bad
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Key learning points
- During Victorian times, Britain changed a lot as people left the countryside to work in new factories in towns.
- Some people thought these changes were good; this can be seen in William Wyld's painting 'Manchester from Kersal Moor'.
- He makes the factory chimneys look pretty by putting them next to church spires, and painting golden sunlight on them.
- But these cities and towns were not nice places to live, with lots of crowding, pollution and poor health.
- These poor conditions can be seen in Gustave Doré's engraving 'Over London - By Rail'.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that only adults worked at jobs in factories in Victorian times.
In Victorian times, there were no laws stopping children working. Children had to earn money to live, so many of them worked in factories. Since they were young and small, children were useful for getting into tight spaces to clean or fix machines.
Keywords
Factories - large buildings full of machines where people work making things are called factories
Chimney - chimneys extend out of the roof of a building, they carry smoke from a fire inside the building and allow it to be released into the sky
Spire - a spire is a tall, narrow, pointed structure usually on top of a church tower
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