Lesson Objectives:

• To understand where and how people used to work
• To explain how people work today

2 minutes

• What work do your family do?
• Where do they work?
• Do they wear special work clothes?

Starter

Watch and listen carefully to the video clip

Questions

1. What is a foreman?


2. Can you think of a reason why ‘Oggie’ would watch over the docks from a tower?

This is a photo of Fred as a young man in the 1950's with his workmate (Fred is on the right).
The paper in the picture is money.

This was after a week when Fred received lots of overtime pay.

What do you think overtime means?

This is from a company brochure of Samuel Williams and Sons from 1975

What does it tell us about:

• What goods were handled on the docks?
• How goods were transported?

• What do you think the word dock means?
• Can you name things which are made in other countries?
• How do they come to Britain?

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Imagine you work at the Docks

Each table will write a story using one of the five senses:

• SIGHT
• SOUND
• TOUCH
• TASTE
• SMELL

The Barking Reach Redevelopment

Look at the items in it – If it has a label find out where it was produced.

Make a list of each item and where it is from.

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In class:

On a map of the world mark where each item came from.