Do you remember?

Unit 3: El mundo que me rodea, relaciones

personales y redes sociales.

Lesson : Victorian School

Objective:
Demostrar comprensin de ideas generales e informacin
explicita en textos autnticos simples acerca de temas de otras
culturas.
Victoria I of England
What do you think the school was in
the past?

How is your school at the present

time?
 Keyword
Monitor:____________
Old:_____________
Scare:____________
Large :___________
Lesson: ____________
Slates: _____________
 Keyword
monitor slate
Many children in Victorian England would never go to school. Nannies used to look after them,
and a governess used to teach the children at home.
Then, when the boys were old enough, they would go away to a public school such as Eton or
Rugby. The daughters used to stay at home and learn how to sing, piano playing and sewing.
At school, children would often be scared of thier teachers because they were stricted. Children
as Young as thirteen helped the teacher to control the class. In schools before 1850 you would see
a single teacher instructing a class of over 100 children with the help of pupils called monitors.
Lessons used to last from 9am to 5pm, with a two hour lunch break. Because classes were so
large, all the pupils had to do the same thing at the same time.
The teacher gave the command, and all the children opened their books. At the second
command they began copying sentences from the blackboard.
Victorian lessons concentrated on Reading, writing and Arithmetic.
Children used to learn to write on slates. Paper was expensive, but slates could be used again and
again. Children used to bring sponges to clean them. Older children learned to use pen and ink by
writing in copybooks. Teachers used to give dictation, Reading strange poems which the
children had to spell out correctly.
The pupils used to use an abacus to help them with their math. Children would have to pass
inspections in math, Reading and writing before they could move up to the next class or
standard.
 what happened with ..?
what did ?
How was .?
Did they use to ?
Activities:
1-
Scan the text and write 5 verbs in past
tense that appears in the text.
2- Read the text again and find the
following information.

a) The name of two public school: __________________ ,_________________________

b) Time at which clases started and ended: _________________, ___________________
c) Name of students who hepled techers: __________________, ___________________
d) Subjects that students learned: ________________, ______________,_____________
6-write a short paragraph about your school. Include the
following information:

kind
age and gender of students who attend
subjects you learn
time you start and finishes classes
kind of activities / sports / workshops you like most