Choose the correct words to complete the text. Schools 'was were wasn't very different in the
19h century to today. Of course, they couldn't / wasn't /
weren't full of computers like they are today. Probably the
most important 'gadget' for a 19 century school child
was/ were / wasn't a slate - a blackboard the children
were / weren't I could write on
It was I could / were impossible for some children to go
to school. Why? Money. Poor families weren't I couldn't /
wasn't send their children to school. Instead these poor
children'weren't/ were / could workers in factories,
farms or rich people's houses.
But, it could / wasn't I couldn't all bad for poor children.
Some of them 'could / was / were go to Dame schools'.
These were / wasn't/ was schools in people's houses.
There was usually one teacher, often a woman. It
"'couldn't / were / wasn't easy for the teacher - her
house '2 wasn't I couldn't/ was full of noisy children!
She was I couldn't/ wasn't teach them a lot of things,
maybe only the alphabet and some numbers.
Life couldn't could / was different for rich children
Some children swas/ were / wasn't at boarding school.
Others 16 could / wasn't/ were have their lessons at
home with a tutor