Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Use the words in the box to complete the text. (There is one word you should not use.) 2 • Look at these statements about Britain in the Victorian age and decide which ones you think are true and which are false. • Now listen carefully and check your answers. 1/05 cholera  colonies  compulsory  corporal  cosy  muddy   pickpockets  poverty  power  progress  servant true false   1   At the end of the nineteenth century, Britain’s empire consisted of 20% of the   world’s population.   2   Victorians thought it was rude to use the word leg, so they tried to avoid using it.   3   In 1900, a husband had the legal right to lock up or to beat his wife.   4   In 1853, more than 11,000 people died of cholera in London.   5   In Victorian schools these punishments were used on children:    - making a child kneel on the floor with his or her hands behind the head for 20 min    - beating a child with a stick    - holding a child in front of a fire until he or she fainted    - hanging a child from the ceiling in a basket    - tying a large log of wood to a child’s shoulders   6   All of these names were given to children in Victorian times: Ham, Feather, Tram,   Wonderful, Sheepdog, Murder, Abishag, Water, Lettuce   7   In the 1840s, 75% of children died before they were 5 years old.   8   At the end of the century there were 1.5 million domestic servants.   9   The first underground trains in London started in 1863. They were steam trains. 10   After 1860, all men over 21 could vote. Women were not allowed to vote. 11   Education was not free until 1891. 12   The speed limit for cars in 1895 was 4 miles per hour. The nineteenth century was a time of great scientific . There were many new inventions, and new machinery made life easier for the rich. The Empire grew, as new were added to it. For the rich and for the middle classes life was comfortable and , and every middle class house had at least one to do the cleaning and the cooking. But not everyone was rich of course; there was also a lot of and misery. The streets were dirty and . Diseases such as were common and the streets were full of and other criminals. Education to the age of 11 became in 1870, and so every child had to go to school. But schools in those days could be hard and unpleasant places. There were many kinds of punishment, of which the most common was beating a child with a stick called a “cane”. progress 33 2 Extensive unit 2: Victorian times Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv