1) In the 19th century Manchester was the home of the cotton industry. a) true b) false 2) Until 1843 factory workers only had Sundays free. a) true b) false 3) Then Robert Lowes and some other men asked factory owners to give their workers all day Saturday off too. a) true b) false 4) One reason why they wanted people to have more free time was so that they could go shopping. a) true b) false 5) The factory owners agreed to close their factories at 3 o'clock on Saturdays. a) true b) false 6) People started to relax more and play more sports. a) true b) false 7) St Mark's football club was started, which later became Manchester United. a) true b) false 8) By the 1950s most people had a two-day weekend. a) true b) false 9) In the 1990s shops started to open on Sundays. a) true b) false 10) Most British workers think a three-day weekend wouldn't make people happier. a) true b) false

EF B1 4C The History of the Weekend

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