Understanding a 19th century text

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Jyothy G Menon
Understanding a 19th century text
Main Subject
Key stage
Exam board
Category
Reading skills: Comprehension
Inside
Includes answers
Resource type
Student activity
Genre
Unseen
Focus
Non-fiction
Genre
Non-fiction

Suitable as a way in to challenging 19th-century non-fiction, this resource features an extract from an autobiography with accompanying vocabulary and comprehension questions.

The text is taken from The Story of My Life from My Childhood to Manhood by George Ebers, 1837-1898. 

Answers are included.

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5
where is the answer scheme? Is there any available

Kate Velasquez

01/06/2020

5
I agree with Lucy Flora. This is a life saving resource. Thank you!

Valerie Long

05/05/2020

5
This is a great resource. It will help pupils focus on comprehension while broadening their reading.

L M

29/04/2020

5

21/04/2020

As a private tutor specialising in GCSE.

Lucy Flora

05/03/2018

'Life-saver' resource for private tutors like me when there are no past papers to use. Can't thank you enough.

Lucy Flora

05/03/2018

This will be a useful material for my students. These days I have been doing text analysis and texts comparison with my upper secondary students. Thank you indeed to teachit.com for sharing these materials.

Thida Lwin

15/12/2017

very helpful. Many thanks

Joanna Gabriel

23/06/2017

Good for helping students to unpick the text. Really helpful resource
thanks

Margaret Snell

15/05/2017

Very useful for my GCSE English Language students - thanks!

Julie Wren

06/03/2017

I used it in my English Language class with KS3

Priya Gopal

06/02/2017

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