You are in charge of one film / TV series / documentary from the selection.

1

What kind of document is it? Find more information about it. Be ready to present it to your classmates.

2

What vision of the Industrial Revolution does it depict?

3

What are the common points and the differences between them?

4

What are your impressions about life at this time?

5

How did inventions change the way people lived back then?

You have been asked to write the introductory text to be published on the web page of a TV channel to promote a special programme about the Industrial Revolution. Write a 100-word report (use everything you have learned so far about the Industrial Revolution). Make your programme sound attractive.

• Hard Times (TV mini-series), BBC, 1994.
  
• Industrial Revelations (documentary show), Discovery Channel, 2002-present.
  
• Oliver Twist (film), by Roman Polanski, 2005.
  
• Oliver Twist (TV mini-series), by Sarah Phelps, 2007.
  
• Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution (YouTube video), Crash Course, 2012.
  

• growing / expanding / augmenting (adj.)
• raw materials → unprocessed substance / natural resources (exp.)
• appliance (machine) / piece of equipment (n.)
• furnace / industrial oven (n.)
• spin / turn / rotate (v.)
• steam / vapour (v., n.)
• improve upon / make better (v.)

Jeopardy: who invented what?

Write the answer and make your classmates guess the question.
Ex: “He wrote the novel Hard Times.” → “Who is Charles Dickens?”