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David Copperfield
Free answer than any other British king or queen: 63
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highly dedicated queen and her people
1 far away from 2 preferred summer than loved her dearly. During her rule Britain
3 smaller than 4 too dark to became the richest and most powerful
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British Empire covered one-fifth of the
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earth’s land area, with a population of
about 370 million people. Commerce
and industry grew and some people
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The Victorian Age was a time of
COMPREHENSION great change in the way people lived
Page 5 – Comprehension Check UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT and worked. A lot of people left the
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1 Because it is the gateway to England, in the factories. Cities like London grew
1 C 2 D 3 A 4 A/B 5 C because of its important geographic very quickly and became crowded. This
CHAPTER ONE
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BEFORE YOU READ
2 A port built by the Romans. transportation. Factory workers were poor
A 1 plain 2 father 3 French 4 friend
Page 9 – Activity 1 3 It was destroyed by fire in 1066. and lived in old houses without running
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4 On steamships. water and heating; their lives were difficult.
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5 21 miles. The air in the cities was full of smoke and
5 friend 6 plain
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1C 2B 3A 4C Page 25 – Activity 3 During the Victorian Age there were
1 left 2 were 3 was 4 sent 5 needed CHAPTER FOUR great inventions and discoveries. The
UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT train took the place of the carriage and
6 worked 7 were 8 paid 9 sold BEFORE YOU READ
10 cleaned 11 slept 12 could 13 wrote people started to travel around Great
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Britain and go to the sea. Electricity
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became part of everyday life.
1 never 2 ever 3 never 4 ever 5 ever CHAPTER THREE Page 46 – Activity 1 David Livingstone was a great British
6 never 7 never 8 ever BEFORE YOU READ explorer. In the 1850s he travelled
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1A 2C 3A 4A 5C 1 Have you talked to Aunt Betsey yet? C to discover the biggest waterfall in the
Page 17 – Activity 4 T: Grade2 UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT 2 Hasn’t Steerforth met Emily yet? E world, and he called it Victoria Falls in
Free answer 3 Has the cart arrived yet? A honour of the queen.
Page 32 – Activity 1 4 Has Peggotty finished cooking yet? D Famous writers like Charles Dickens,
1D 2A 3B 4B 5C 6D 7A 8A 5 Have the lawyers written the document Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Robert Louis
CHAPTER TWO yet? B Stevenson and Oscar Wilde created their
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BEFORE YOU READ masterpieces during the Victorian Age.
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CHAPTER FIVE UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT The horse bus was introduced in the Page 89 – Activity 2
UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT 1830s; it carried about twenty-two A: 1 C 2 E 3 A 4 F 5 B 6 D
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London’s transport problems were A: Happy: glad, joyful, delighted;
9 L 10 J Page 73 – Activity 2 solved in 1863 with the world’s first Wonderful: excellent, fantastic, great;
Page 54 – Activity 2 T: Grade 4 1 after 2 until 3 when 4 as soon as underground railway, called ‘the tube’ Rich: affluent, prosperous, wealthy;
Free answer 5 while 6 before 7 as soon as 8 until by Londoners. At first there were only Thin: slim, slender, skinny;
9 after 10 while a few stations, but today ‘the ‘tube’ is Beautiful: attactive, pretty, handsome
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was the quality of the air and water. The Free answer
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air in the city was dirty and unhealthy
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because smoke from the factories and
4 magazines 5 libraries 6 opportunity fog created smog. This caused many Free answer
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1 clerk 2 heart attack 3 splendid Rich people often lived outside London
4 practical 5 invest 6 beggar in the countryside, in big homes with
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BEFORE YOU READ In Dickens’s London people still drank
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UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT Page 74 – Activity 1 which was dirty and often caused terrible 1 New Holland 2 The east coast; they
diseases. The water in the river also discovered new plants and animals
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had a very bad smell. In 1875 a clever 3 New South Wales 4 Because British
1 Dora 2 delighted/picnic 3 Julia Mills/ UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT engineer called Sir Joseph Bazalgette prisons were very crowded during the
London 4 visit 5 became 6 a practical/ designed and built a sewer system eighteenth century 5 A large number of
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young 7 went/angry/forget/daughter British and Irish people came to settle in the
8 clercks/sudden death 9 poor/aunts Free answer Thames much cleaner and safer to drink. colony 6 A lot of them wanted to find gold
1C 2C 3A 4B 5C and become rich but most people wanted
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great opportunities.
B 1 does/look like 2 does/like 3 is/like 4 Why B 5 Who F 6 How D Across: 2 confused 5 evil 7 strict
4 is/like 5 do/like 6 is/like 7 Why H 8 Where G 10 hypocrite 11 warehouse 13 liar
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1 not old as 2 mine 3 did not live 1B 2A 3B 4A 5B 6B 7A 8B
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4 nothing 5 was written by 6 took
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During the Victorian Age London had
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of people from the countryside to the 9 C 10 I 11 K 12 G 13 L 14 M 15 P
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1C 2B 3A 4B 5C 6A three million people lived in London and Free answer
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with people, merchants, markets, 1C 2A 3B 4C 5D
horses, carts and carriages. Side streets
were dark, narrow and dirty.
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