What was life like for British coal miners?
Advanced lesson plan (B2 and above): What was life like for British coal miners? - BUY ME A COFFEE if you like my FREE ESL content
Imagine endless hours of stooping over, crawling and squatting in dark and dank coal mines. Over one million men worked as coal miners in 1920s Britain, digging up fuel for the nation's fireplaces and factories.
In this B2+ worksheet, students will
- Study a video about coal mining in Britain
- Choose between "used to" vs. "would" for past narratives
- Learn four phrasal verbs based on DIG
- Study six coal mining-related idioms
- Read and answer questions about a George Orwell essay on coal mining
- See advanced adjectives to describe coal miners' working conditions
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Lesson objectives:
1) To learn four phrasal verbs based on DIG (to dig into, to dig up, to dig out, dig in!)
2) To choose correctly between "used to" and "would" for past narratives
3) To choose advanced adjectives that are appropriate/inappropriate for describing the work conditions in a coal mine
4) To practise listening comprehension by studying a video about coal mining in Britain in the first half of the 1900s
5) To expand the students' repertoire of idioms, matching six coal mining-related idioms/phrases with their definitions (a canary in a coal mine, coal in one's stocking, to haul somebody over the coals, to dig one's heels in, to dig at someone, to dig oneself into a hole)
6) To improve reading comprehension by studying an extract from George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier, in which he documents the working conditions of British coal miners.
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