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True or false. Correct the false statements.

True False
1.
In the 18th century, when a large number of new factories opened, there were enough workers.
There weren't enough workers.
 
 
2.
Factory owners took children from workhouses and orphanages.
 
 
3.
These poor children had to stay with their factory owner until they were 15.
They had to stay with their factory owner until they were 21.
 
 
4.
Poor families took it for granted that their children had to work.
 
 
5.
All children worked hard in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Not all children worked hard in the 18th and 19th centuries, but most of them did.
 
 
6.
Children didn’t have to work long hours. They only worked 3 hours a day.
Children had to work long hours. They worked 16 hours a day.
 
 
7.
Children usually started work at the age of 5.
 
 
8.
Children didn’t work in coalmines, they only worked in textile factories.
Children worked in coalmines, too.
 
 
9.
Charles Dickens’ childhood was difficult and not very happy.
 
 
10.
Dickens had to work in a factory when he was eight.
Dickens had to work in a factory when he was ten.
 
 
11.
Dickens wrote about happy children and rich people in his novels.
Dickens wrote about unhappy children and poor people in his novels.
 
 
12.
John Birley had to work long hours.
 
 
13.
John didn’t have to work on Sundays.
He had to clean the machinery on Sundays.
 
 
14.
If children were late for work, they weren’t punished.
If children were late for work, they were severely punished.
 
 
15.
Overseers were very kind and the children weren’t afraid of them.
Overseers were very strict and the children were afraid of them.
 
 
16.
John’s childhood was very unhappy.
 
 
17.
In many countries in the world children still have to work hard.
 
 
 

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