Interview
An interview with Prof. Benjamin Brody, he is a famous history teacher and can tell us a lot about the Victorian time.
J (Jack Williams): Hello Prof. Benjamin Brody! My name is Jack Williams. Thank you for coming!
B (Benjamin Brody): Ohh…no problem, thank you for the invitation.
J: What can you tell us about the Victorian time? Your father was a child in that time. How was his childhood?
B: His childhood was very hard, because he lived in a poor family. My father started working when he was five years. He worked in a coal mine, where he had to pushing trucks of coal to the surface. Other children worked in factories or as chimney sweeps. The work was unpleasant and dangerous for the children. Many fell ill or had bad accidents, which left them injuries.
J: Why didn’t he go to school?
B: Because the most poor children worked, and their earnings were an important part of the family income. If he went to school, his family would lose this money.
J: Didn’t his parents had a job?
B: Sure his father worked very hard but his family needed every money. His mother had to do a lot of things at home, which were important for the family. She played a central role in all this.
J: Can you also tell me something about the rich families?
B: The life in a rich family was easier because the children could go to school and had a lot of leisure.
J: But when was it illegal to employ young children?
B: Fortunately throughout the Queen Victoria. At 1841 no child under the age of 10 was allowed to work in a cole mine. At 1868 no child under the age of 8 was allowed to be employed in a gang of farm workers. At 1874 was it illegal when a child under the age of 10 worked in a factory and at 1875 it was forbidden to send boys up chimneys.
J: Thank you for this interview. Now I know that the life in the Victorian time was really harder than now.
B: Jeah…it was really hard and I’m very glad that I didn’t lived in this time and I’m very sad that my father had such a bad childhood.
J: Thank you it was very enlightening. Bye!
B: You’re welcome! Bye
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J (Jack Williams): Hello Prof. Benjamin Brody! My name is Jack Williams. Thank you for coming!
B (Benjamin Brody): Ohh…no problem, thank you for the invitation.
J: What can you tell us about the Victorian time? Your father was a child in that time. How was his childhood?
B: His childhood was very hard, because he lived in a poor family. My father started working when he was five years. He worked in a coal mine, where he had to pushing trucks of coal to the surface. Other children worked in factories or as chimney sweeps. The work was unpleasant and dangerous for the children. Many fell ill or had bad accidents, which left them injuries.
J: Why didn’t he go to school?
B: Because the most poor children worked, and their earnings were an important part of the family income. If he went to school, his family would lose this money.
J: Didn’t his parents had a job?
B: Sure his father worked very hard but his family needed every money. His mother had to do a lot of things at home, which were important for the family. She played a central role in all this.
J: Can you also tell me something about the rich families?
B: The life in a rich family was easier because the children could go to school and had a lot of leisure.
J: But when was it illegal to employ young children?
B: Fortunately throughout the Queen Victoria. At 1841 no child under the age of 10 was allowed to work in a cole mine. At 1868 no child under the age of 8 was allowed to be employed in a gang of farm workers. At 1874 was it illegal when a child under the age of 10 worked in a factory and at 1875 it was forbidden to send boys up chimneys.
J: Thank you for this interview. Now I know that the life in the Victorian time was really harder than now.
B: Jeah…it was really hard and I’m very glad that I didn’t lived in this time and I’m very sad that my father had such a bad childhood.
J: Thank you it was very enlightening. Bye!
B: You’re welcome! Bye
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1 comment:
Quite informative and you put it well into a story.
(str) ... Brody who is a famous history teacher
(str) he was five years old
(str) where he had to push trucks
(str) which left them injured
(g) because most children (no article!)
(g) If he had gone ..., his parents would have lost ...
(g !!!) didn't his parents have a job
(exp) of course, his father ...
(exp) the family needed every penny
(exp) they had a lot of leisure time
(g) the poor children who
(exp) "handmade toys" --> handgemachte Spiele sind doch teuer
(exp) called nursery
(exp, str) fortunately this changed throughout ...
(sp) coal
(exp) in 1841/ 1868 / ....
(str) in 1874 it was made illegal
(sp) yeah
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