people and the textile industry unit 1 the …...people and the textile industry unit 1 the domestic...

People and the Textile Industry Unit 1 The Domestic System

Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany - 1 - Llicència C 2006-2007

1. Draw arrows to match each picture with its word.

City Chambers, Glasgow, Scotland (photo taken by Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany)

http://eiu.edu/~cfnek/gifsplus/moll/prentices.jpg

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Texclothier.jpg

weavers

spinning wheel

clothiers

handloom

spinner

http://nzphoto.tripod.com/avillagelife/weave/ weaver_images/loom.jpg

Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, Scotland (photo taken by Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany)

2. Put the words from the previous exercise into the right box.

Jobs Machines

3. Can you say what these machines were used for?

weave spin

a. The spinning wheel was used to __________________. b. The handloom was used to ______________________.



4. Match each job with its definition.

producer weaver clothier spinner

a. _________________: a person who spins.

b. _________________: a person who makes, sells, or deals in clothes or cloth.

c. _________________: a person who weaves, especially as a means of livelihood.

d. _________________: a person or a company that grows or makes food, goods or materials.

5. Group the jobs from the previous exercise into the right box.

Jobs at home Who visited the cottage?

Who were the producers? 6. Say if these sentences are true (T) or false (F). Compare them with your

partner.

a. In 1750, most people lived and worked in the countryside.

b. They worked as producers of cotton cloth.

c. They did this work in factories.

d. The raw wool was delivered to the cottages.

e. The finished product was collected from the factories.

f. Businessmen organised production.

g. The system ensured full employment for the whole family.

h. Weaving was seen as a woman’s job.

i. Men were responsible for spinning.

j. Working the loom was quite strenuous work.

k. The handloom was worked by both hand and foot movements.

l. Two or three spinners were needed for one weaver.



7. Make the false sentences true.

__________________________________________________________.

__________________________________________________________.

__________________________________________________________.

__________________________________________________________.

__________________________________________________________.

__________________________________________________________.

8. Compare your sentences with your partner.

9. Write these sentences in the correct columns.

a. People had to work very long hours to make a living. b. Workers could still look after their children. c. The finished product was not enough. d. They could also perhaps grow food or keep livestock on a small holding. e. They did not have to travel any distance to work. f. The production was very slow. g. They could work at their own speed and rested when they needed to. h. Windows allowed for light and ventilation.

Advantages of the domestic system Disadvantages of the domestic system



10. Look at the people in these pictures. Think about what they are doing and talk with your partner about them. Look at the speaking frame.

Source 1

City Chambers, Glasgow, Scotland (photo taken by Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany)

Source 2

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005121/data/britain2_files/image008.jpg

Source 3

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=95658&rendTypeId=4



Here you have the speaking frame

a. What can you see in Source X?

a woman

a woman, a girl and an elderly person

I can see

four women and a child

in Source X.

11. Write three or four sentences to describe each picture. The first one has

been done for you.

a. In Source 1, there is a woman who is spinning by hand. She is spinning with the spinning wheel. She is sitting down. She is working at home. b. In Source 2, there are three people. ______________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________. c. In Source 3, there are four women. ______________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________.

is she

c. Where

are they

working?

She

is

They

are

at home.

is she b. What

are they

doing?

She

is

They

are spinning.

e. What is the child doing?

helping at home.

The child is

playing / looking at X.

is she

d. What machine

are they

using?

She

is

a spinning wheel.

They

are using

spinning wheels.



12. Compare and contrast the Sources.

(Idea from http://www.readingquest.org)

13. Discuss your Venn diagram with your partner.

Source 2

Source 3

Source 1



14. Imagine you are on your first visit to a cottage in about 1750. Describe the place (rooms, machines) and the people (number, age, sex, jobs). Use your own knowledge.

15. In groups of four, write a dialogue based on the day the clothier visits the

cottage. Think that each of you must play a role in the dialogue.



16. Linking past and present.

16.1. Look at Source 4 and answer the following questions using sentences.

Source 4

These photos were taken in Tunisia in 2000 (by Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany)

a. Who can you see in the pictures? b. What is this person doing?

c. How is this person working?

d. What kind of machine is this person using?

e. What is this person’s job?

f. Where do you think this person is working? How do you know it?

g. Do you think there are similarities or differences between this machine and the ones that you can see in exercise 1? Give your reasons.

h. Do you think Source 4 shows an unusual situation?

i. Does it give evidence that today there are people who still weave using a hand-operated loom? Why?



16. 2. Work with your partner. Use the internet to see if you can find more photos of people weaving by hand. Think and answer these questions.

a. Who are the hand weavers? b. Where are the hand weavers working? c. Do you know where they are from? If so, list the places. d. If there are still hand weavers today, do you think you can find

spinners too? e. Where can you find them? f. Who are the spinners?

g. Where are they working?

h. Is there any relationship between the places the spinners and the

weavers are from? If so, which? i. Can we say there is still a domestic system today? Why? j. Do you think everyone who spins or weaves by hand today does it for

a living, for pleasure or for maintaining a tradition? Explain your answer.

k. Write down the web site addresses where you found the information.

people and the textile industry unit 1 the …...people and the textile industry unit 1 the domestic...

Documents