People and the Textile Industry Unit 1 The Domestic System Answer Key Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany - 1 - Llicència C 2006-2007 1. Draw arrows to match each picture with its word. spinner City Chambers, Glasgow, Scotland (photo taken by Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany) weavers http://eiu.edu/~cfnek/gifsplus/moll/prenti ces.jpg clothiers http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Te xclothier.jpg handloom http://nzphoto.tripod.co m/avillagelife/weave/ weaver_images/loom.jp g spinning wheel Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, Scotland (photo taken by Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany) 2. Put the words from the previous exercise into the right box. Jobs Machines spinner weavers clothiers handloom spinning wheel 3. Can you say what these machines were used for? a. The spinning wheel was used to spin. b. The handloom was used to weave. 4. Match each job with its definition. a. spinner a person who spins. b. clothier a person who makes, sells, or deals in clothes or cloth. c. weaver a person who weaves, especially as a means of livelihood. d. producer a person or a company that grows or makes food, goods or materials. 5. Group the jobs from the previous exercise into the right box. Jobs at home Who visited the cottage? spinner, weaver, producer clothier Who were the producers? The spinner and the weaver
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People and the Textile Industry Unit 1 The Domestic System Answer Key
Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany - 1 - Llicència C 2006-2007
1. Draw arrows to match each picture with its word.
spinner
City Chambers, Glasgow, Scotland (photo taken by Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany)
People and the Textile Industry Unit 1 The Domestic System Answer Key
Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany - 4 - Llicència C 2006-2007
11. Write three or four sentences to describe each picture. The first one has been done for you.
Sample answer
a. In Source 1, there is a woman who is spinning by hand. She is spinning with the spinning wheel. She is sitting down. She is working at home.
b. In Source 2, there are three people. There is a woman who is spinning by hand. She is standing up. There is a girl who is cooking. She is standing up, too. There is an old woman who is sitting down. She is helping. There is a window in the room. They are at home.
c. In Source 3, there are four women and a girl at home. They are working. There are three spinning wheels. Two women are spinning and they are sitting down. One woman is cooking and she is standing up. The girl is helping her and she is sitting down. There is another woman who is helping the cook. She is sitting down, too. There is a window in the room
12. Compare and contrast the Sources. Source 1: only one woman Source 2: the spinner is standing up. There are three people. Source 3: there are four women and a girl. Three spinning wheels. One spinner is helping the cook. There are two cats. Source 1 & Source 2: one spinning wheel Source 1 & Source 3: the spinners are sitting down Source 2 & Source 3: cooking; window Source 1 & Source 2 &Source 3: women; spinning; home
13. Discuss your Venn diagram with your partner.
14. Imagine you are on your first visit to a cottage in about 1750. Describe the place (rooms, machines) and the people (number, age, sex, jobs). Use your own knowledge.
Students’ own answers
15. In groups of four, write a dialogue based on the day the clothier visits the cottage. Think that each of you must play a role in the dialogue.
Students’ own answers
16. Linking past and present.
16.1. Look at Source 4 and answer the following questions using sentences.
Source 4
These photos were taken in Tunisia in 2000 (by Maria del Roser Pujadas Jubany)
People and the Textile Industry Unit 1 The Domestic System Answer Key
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a. Who can you see in the pictures? I can see a woman.
b. What is this person doing? She is weaving.
c. How is this person working? She is sitting down.
d. What kind of machine is this person using? She is using a handloom.
e. What is this person’s job? She is a weaver.
f. Where do you think this person is working? How do you know it? I think this woman is working at home or in a workshop. I know it because I can see a toilet and doors.
g. Do you think there are similarities or differences between this machine and the ones that you can see in exercise 1? Give your reasons.
Sample answer I think there are similarities and differences. Similarities: the handloom is a hand-operated machine Differences: this handloom only needs hand movements.
h. Do you think Source 4 shows an unusual situation? No, I don’t
i. Does it give evidence that today there are people who still weave using a hand-operated loom? Why?
Yes, it does. Because these pictures were taken in 2000.
16.2. Work with your partner. Use the internet to see if you can find more photos of people weaving by hand. Think and answer these questions.
Students’ own answers
a. Who are the hand weavers?
b. Where are the hand weavers working?
c. Do you know where they are from? If so, list the places.
d. If there are still hand weavers today, do you think you can find spinners too?
e. Where can you find them?
f. Who are the spinners?
g. Where are they working?
h. Is there any relationship between the places the spinners and the weavers are from? If so, which?
i. Can we say there is still a domestic system today? Why?
j. Do you think everyone who spins or weaves by hand today does it for a living, for pleasure or for maintaining a tradition? Explain your answer.
k. Write down the web site addresses where you found the information.
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HEAR AND SAY
I. Cottage – family II. Family – producers
III. Producers – clothier IV. Clothier – raw material V. Raw material – woollen cloth
VI. Woollen cloth – simple machines VII. Simple machines – spinning-wheel
VIII. Spinning – wheel – spinner IX. Spinner – woman X. Woman – spinning
XI. Spinning – spin XII. Spin – weave
XIII. Weave – weaving XIV. Weaving – hard manual work XV. Hard manual work – man
XVI. Man – handloom XVII. Handloom – weaver
XVIII. Weaver – finished product XIX. Finished product – cottage