1. What do you know about Queen Victoria?
to learn some facts about Queen Victoria
and her importance for the UK

3. Procedure part 1
Start by asking the question from the title, check how much your students know about Queen Victoria. (2’)
Students work in pairs. They receive a set of T or F sentences about the life of Queen Victoria. They have to decide if they are true or false. (5’)
Students work in groups of three. Each group has a different task. Their task is to watch one clip and learn as much as possible about the Queen. (10’)
Student A: clip
Student B: clip
Student C: clip

4. Procedure part 2
4. After students have finished ask them to sit in their groups again and share everything they have learnt from the texts and clips. They should analyse T or F questions from the beginning of the lesson again. (10’) * 5. (if time) After students have finished show them the slide with different events from Victoria’s life. Ask students to put them in the right order. Show the right order. Play a clip about the Great Exhibition. (6’) 6. Show students the T or F questions again and ask them if they are T or F again. (5’) * 7. (if time) Play the last part of the documentary about Victoria. (7’) If there is not enough time to play the clip, ask your students to write a short summary of what they have learnt in their notebooks.

5. T or F? Victoria suffered from hemophilia.
Victoria was 5,5 feet tall. (1 foot = 0,30 metres)
Her mother tongue is English.
She proposed to her husband.
She is called the Aunt of Europe.
She mourned her husband for 40 years.
She was born in 1820.
Her reign has been the longest so far.
She went with her husband Prince Albert on honeymoon to Scotland.

6. 10. There were 4 attempts at assassinating Victoria. 11
10. There were 4 attempts at assassinating Victoria. 11. She spoke only 2 foreign languages. 12. She was the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace. 13. Victoria started the fashion for white wedding dresses. 14. Lots of geographical features around the world are named after her. 15. In the Oval Office in the White House there is a chair which was a gift from Victoria. 16. She didn’t like drawing.

7. Queen Victoria makes her first public appearance after the death of her husband to attend the Royal opening of Parliament, improving her popularity with her subjects.
Prince Albert dies of typhoid fever. Queen Victoria was devastated, and for five years she made no public appearances. For the rest of her life, Victoria wore only black.
Victoria becomes Queen after the death of her uncle, King William IV. She is only 18 years old, but immediately makes her mark as clever and confident.
Queen Victoria dies aged 81, the longest-reigning monarch in British history. The whole nation mourned, and lined the streets to watch the funeral procession.
Queen Victoria is made Empress of India following the Indian Mutiny and the Creation of the British Raj. She was a keen supporter of the British Empire.
Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition, an international exhibition organised by Prince Albert. It is remembered as the high point of the Victorian period.
Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee marking 60 years as Queen. Soldiers from all over the Empire parade through London.
Victoria marries her German Cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. They have an extremely happy marriage, and he is the love of her life.

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9. The Great Exhibition 1851

10. T or F? Victoria suffered from hemophilia.
Victoria was 5,5 feet tall. (1 foot = 0,30 metres)
Her mother tongue is English.
She proposed to her husband.
She is called the Aunt of Europe.
She mourned her husband for 40 years.
She was born in 1820.
Her reign has been the longest so far.
She went with her husband Prince Albert on honeymoon to Scotland.

11. 10. There were 4 attempts at assassinating Victoria. 11
10. There were 4 attempts at assassinating Victoria. 11. She spoke only 2 foreign languages. 12. She was the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace. 13. Victoria started the fashion for white wedding dresses. 14. Lots of geographical features around the world are named after her. 15. In the Oval Office in the White House there is a chair which was a gift from Victoria. 16. She didn’t like drawing.

12. T or F? Victoria suffered from hemophilia. YES
Victoria was 5,5 feet tall. (1 foot = 0,30 metres) NO, she was 5 feet tall
Her mother tongue is English. NO, it’s German.
She proposed to her husband. YES, he couldn’t propose to a queen
She is called the Aunt of Europe. NO, the Grandmother of Europe – 9 children, 42 grandchildren, many of them became memebrs of European royal families
She mourned her husband for 40 years. YES, she loved him a lot
She was born in NO, in 1819
Her reign has been the longest so far. NO, Queen Elisabeth II
She went with her husband Prince Albert on honeymoon to Scotland. NO, they didn’t go on honeymoon because she couldn’t leave her duties for so long

13. 10. There were 4 attempts at assassinating Victoria
10. There were 4 attempts at assassinating Victoria. NO, at least 6 serious ones 11. She spoke only 2 foreign languages. NO, more, for sure English, German, French, Hindustani 12. She was the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace. YES 13. Victoria started the fashion for white wedding dresses. YES 14. Lots of geographical features around the world are named after her. YES, a desert in Australia, a waterfall in Zambia, a mountain in New Zealand 15. In the Oval Office in the White House there is a chair which was a gift from Victoria. NO, it was the desk which was the gift 16. She didn’t like drawing. NO, you can see her self-portrait on the next slide

14. Self-portrait

15. Queen Victoria (the last clip)