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Yorkshire :.
Topic:
Youth Culture
Task 1
What
do young people do in Yorkshire today an what are they interested
in?
What are the differences to German kids?
YO1:
This is a Yorkshire based magazine for younger persons. You
could use this page to gain an overview of what interests young
people in Yorkshire.
http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/york/yo1magazine/dec03/index.html
Teenage
Clixx is a similar site like YO1 but for kids from 12 to 16
years.
http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/york/clixx/
Try
to produce a poster that shows your impressions of youth culture
in Yorkshire and the differences to Germany.
You can draw or print out some pictures, write some short texts,
or even collect some material at home to design your poster.
Task
2
How
have the kids in Yorkshire lived during the industrial revolution?
This
homepages gives useful information about youth during the industrial
revolution.
Just read the following short texts in the links under the headline
Life in the Factory. Scavengers, Working Hours, Food in the
Factory, Punishments and Accidents.
You
don't have to read the interviews on the pages.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm
Read
this Interview with a boy from around 1830 till number 4177.
Try to write a similar interview with a boy or a girl nowadays.
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316kunit2/studentprojectsspring/group1/sadtext.html
You can present the two interviews to the class as a role-play.
Further websites:
For Task 1 http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/york/sport/
For Task 2 http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist8.html
Keep in mind that you should collect three questions, which
are answered, in your presentation.
