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Teacher guide & answers

In this lesson: Connect the rings’ function with the limits of identifying the shoe.

Objects From Havmanden Connect Personal and Colonial History

How to use these two pages

Give learners the student worksheet. It contains the story and questions, without the answers. Keep this guide for yourself. Use it to lead the activity and explain the answers afterwards.

Student worksheet

A simple 15–20-minute lesson

Before reading · 2 minutes
Show the title. Ask: “What do you think this story is about?”
Read and answer · 8–10 minutes
Give out the student worksheet. Learners read for the main idea, then reread to answer the 2 questions. They can compare answers with a partner.
Discuss and write · 5–8 minutes
Check the answers below together. Ask learners to point to the clue in the story, then finish with the open question.

Adjust the support: Let learners use word help or Level 1 if needed. For a challenge, compare the wording in another level. This activity is not a proficiency test.

Answers to the 2 questions

The question numbers match the student worksheet. Each answer includes a reason and the clue learners can find in the story.

What were manillas used for?
Correct answer: A — Payment in the slave trade
Why: The first paragraph defines their historical function.
Clue in the story: Denmark’s National Museum reported a fine shoe fragment and two manillas from Havmanden, a shipwreck near Gothenburg. Manillas are metal rings used as payment in the slave trade.
How certain is the governor connection?
Correct answer: C — It is a possibility
Why: The second paragraph says could have belonged and cannot identify with certainty.
Clue in the story: The ship sank in 1683 after a mutiny. Experts think the shoe could have belonged to a governor, although they cannot identify its owner with certainty.

The open question: accept different answers

Ask learners: Explain the difference between identifying an object’s use and identifying its owner here.

One possible answer: The museum identifies manillas as metal rings used in slave-trade payments. It offers only a possible owner for the shoe and cannot identify that owner with certainty.

This is an example, not the only correct answer. Look for a relevant idea, a reason and the learner’s own words. Learners can answer aloud or write one or two sentences.

Grammar to discuss

A concession limiting a suggestion

although

Although introduces the limit on the suggested governor connection: certainty is unavailable.