Industrial Revolution




Exercises
A. Look for the correct words:

            a) Each person is specialized in one particular task. 
            b) The transition to new manufacturing processes that started in Britain during    the 18th and 19th                    centuries.
            c) Merchants paid people to make products in their own homes.
d) Included merchants, managers, lawyers, doctors, civil servants, farmers and small business owners    like shopkeepers.
e) A solid fuel produced when wood is heated in the absence of air
f) Were wage labourers like factory workers, servants and agricultural labourers.
            g) A person who owns a factory or is involved in the management of industry.   
            h) A solid fuel produced when coal is heated in the absence of air.
i) Consisted of the rich businesspeople, such as factory owners, and the nobles.

B. Who was Isambard Kingdom Brunel? Write five sentences at least.

C. Who was Josiah Wedgwood? Write five sentences at least.

D. Connect:
                                                           - Bridge
Josiah Wedgwood                              - Pottery
Isambard Kingdom Brunel                  - Division of labour
                                                          - Railway tunnel

                                                          - Wealthy customers

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