1. Check the meaning of the bold words. Then choose the correct answers.
During the Industrial Revolution in Bratain, a lot of (1) working-class / upper-class children worked in (2) machininery / cotton mills. (3) Orphans / Mill owners didn't usually receive any (4) wages / textiles and there weren't any laws about (5) homeless / child labour.
3. Read the text again and answer the questions.
1. Why were cotton mills built in Britain?
The cotton mills were built in Britain because the Industrail Revolution started in Britain and the production of textiles became very important.
2. Where did working-class chlidren usually work before the Industrial Revolution?
Working-class children before the Industrial Revolution works in houses, shops or farms
3. Why did mill owners empoloy very young children?
Because their families needed money, so they must worked to find it.
4. What happened to children if they stopped working?
If they stopped working the owner or a person punished they. The punish was physic and their wages were reduced.
5. Which children didn't recive any wages?
The orphans and homless children didn't recived any wage.
6. Were the mill owner doing anything illegal? Explain your answer.
Yes, because they didn't have any right or law to protect them, The children worked a lot of time and the owners consider the food and a bed were enough for them. They were exploting and their wages are very low.
7. Has child labour stopped now? Explain your answer.
No, but it reduced a lot of. In some industries or factories, concretly the textile industry or clothes factories. The children were exploted in nowadays but, a lot of person tried to stopped it.
4. Read the laws about child labour in the UK. Do you think they're a good idea or not? Explain your answers.
Working-class children before the Industrial Revolution works in houses, shops or farms
3. Why did mill owners empoloy very young children?
Because their families needed money, so they must worked to find it.
4. What happened to children if they stopped working?
If they stopped working the owner or a person punished they. The punish was physic and their wages were reduced.
5. Which children didn't recive any wages?
The orphans and homless children didn't recived any wage.
6. Were the mill owner doing anything illegal? Explain your answer.
Yes, because they didn't have any right or law to protect them, The children worked a lot of time and the owners consider the food and a bed were enough for them. They were exploting and their wages are very low.
7. Has child labour stopped now? Explain your answer.
No, but it reduced a lot of. In some industries or factories, concretly the textile industry or clothes factories. The children were exploted in nowadays but, a lot of person tried to stopped it.
4. Read the laws about child labour in the UK. Do you think they're a good idea or not? Explain your answers.
- You must be over fourteen years old to work: We think that it's positive but at the same time negative because if there are a needed family, his son can work and make some money for eat. But at the same time this can be dangerous because the corruption bourgesois should can exploded young people.
- You mustn't work before seven o'clock in the morning or after seven o'clock at nigh: We think this it's positive because the children weren't exploted and they can sleepped in their bed and spended more time with their families.
- You mustn't work in factory, a mine or on a ship: We think that all of works sholud be accepted, becuase you aren't forced to work in a place, and there are a lot of people that work in factories.
- You mustn't work during shool hours on a shchool day: We think this is a good idea because the children needded the education, if they didn't have education they will be a persons without education, respect, culture and behaviour.
- You mustn't work for more than two hours on a school day or a Sunday: We think that all of we should have a limit of 40 hour, after that, if your boss give you the oportunity, you can CHOOSE if you want to work more hours for an extra money.
- You mustn't work for more than four hours a day without a break of one hour: We think that all the persons have a right for a little break, if they don't have it they will be very tired and they don't do a good job.
