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GROWING UP IN EGYPT
Click on the picture of young Amose. He's going to tell you about children
in Ancient Egypt.
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Read the following texts and answer
these questions:
1. Did all children attend school in Ancient Egypt?
2. Which children used to have private tutors?
3. Did the daughters of wealthy families usually
go to school? What did they do?
4. At what age did the boys' learning finish?
5. Why did parents want their sons to become scribes?
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Now click here
and you will listen to Amose . Listen carefully and say if the following
statements are TRUE or FALSE.
6. Amose never had to go to school.
7. He often goes fishing and hunting.
8. He helps his father on the farm everyday.
9. His father is working now.
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Now read this text and answer the following
questions:
10. What material were Greek houses made of?
11. What colour were they painted ? Why?
12. Why were windows small?
13. Did all houses have a shrine?
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Now click here
to listen to Amose talking about his house and answer the questions below:
14. Amose's house is quite big as his father does well on the farm.
15. He has a room for himself.
16. In the summer he sleeps on the roof of
the house.
17. Their kitchen is big.
18. They say prayers in the shrine every day.
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How do you think the ancient Egyptians made
bricks?
Put the sentences below in the correct order to explain the process.
19. They mixed the mud with straw and pebbles
to strengthen it .
When dried these bricks were used to build houses.
Then they poured the mixture into wooden frames
to make bricks.
Egyptians got the mud from the Nile banks.
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Now watch the video
and check.
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Would you like to draw like an Egyptian? Click
on the picture below and follow the steps on the video.
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If you want to learn more about Growing
Up in Egypt , click on these subjects:
Growing
Up and Marriage.
What's
for Supper?
Pets
Toys
Water
Sports
Forever
Young
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If you want to learn more about Life in Egypt
around the Nile, watch this video
  
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