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HARD TIMES - Coggle Diagram
HARD TIMES
The Great of London
Make bread-tend to the ovens= look after the ovens
Stocked cupboards:
food
oil
Warehouses full of:
Wood
Coal
winter supplies
Fire broke out= a fire started
Spark + Fuel + Oxygen +wind= flames spread
Catastrophe struck
People panicked:
smashed doors/
streets blocked/
fled from the flames with grabbed possessions/
screamed in terror
suffered from heat/ smoke
escaped from city on boats
dived into the river
Plan into action-demolish a building-fight a fire-fire break
Extensive damage
Lives lost (lose your life)
Countless people-Houses in ruins-Homeless people (families, lodgers)
Animal rights
Taken to court-guilty-accused of sth -ing.
Safe-receive + accept an order to appear in court- go to court
Interrupt a court meeting
Family life in 17th-century Britain
Fantasy about wonderfully life in past # press face in our day-to-day life
Trade-more money=more people could read and write BUT
Rich people-good food/poetry/theatre/
Household
Children (“it” nor “she”/”he”) not reach 1
Children leave home before 8- workers: shepherds/ helpers on farms
Elderly people not beyond 40-children grew up without parents
Crowded life
One-room houses/ not mattresses
People + animals: goats/ chickens/ cows
Crowd together to sleep-warm up-people’s health: lice/suffer from illness + not taking bath-smell bad
Childcare
Leave children on their own: report stories-close to fire-burn to dead
Descriptive verbs
Smash=break noisily in small pieces
Rage=start in a strong and violent way
Dive= jump into
Flee= escape/run out of (fled/fled)
Strike= hit sb/sth forcefully (struck/struck)
Demolish=knock down/destroy
Grab= take sth from sb quickly
Scream=cry out/ shout with fear
Time periods
The present:
in this day and age
these days
nowadays
The recent past:
from X until X
a decade ago
not so long ago
A long, long time ago in history:
in the last century
In the middle ages
in the olden days
Where life is really hard
Exceptional habitat-bitterly cold/-45º Celsius + freezing wind- difficult to bear (= tolerate, put up with)
Indigenous people:
Hunters-successful hunt out seals/whales- survival of people left behind (=not taken with them)
Hunting-meat-last (=continue to be enough)
Stay overnight (=from one evening through the other morning)
Made igloo from ice and snow + stove/stone lamp
Ride a snowmobile-check through binoculars
Live off breeding (=raising) reindeers-herds-on the move-eat moss