EAL Nexus Resource © Bell Educational Trust 2016 EAL Nexus – free downloadable teaching materials This resource was originally developed by S Tanner and has been adapted for EAL Nexus. An Inspector Calls JB Priestley dictogloss images and text Subject: English Age groups: 12-14, Topic: An Inspector Calls

working class in Yorkshire in 1900

free school milk

The First World War officers

The Welfare State council houses

equal rights for women

Second World War

Dictogloss 1 J B Priestley was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in Bradford was a working class town and J B Priestley saw how difficult life was for a lot of people. They worked long hours, and had poor housing. He wanted to write about how hard life was for ordinary working people.

Dictogloss 2 JB Priestley’s father was a Headmaster of a school. The school was the first school to offer free school dinners and free milk. J B Priestley’s father believed that it was important to be unselfish and to help other people. J B Priestley learned a lot from his father. J B Priestley went to fight in the First World War Nearly all of his friends died in the war, and he was wounded. J B Priestley believed that the upper class officers and generals were responsible for the deaths of so many young men, because of the bad decisions they made in their war plan.

Dictogloss 3 After the war, J B Priestley went to study in Cambridge University. As a writer, he visited many of the poor areas of Great Britain and he wrote about the need to improve working people’s lives. He contributed to the setting up of the Welfare State, the National Health Service and the United Nations. He also believed in equal rights for women. J B Priestley hated the First World War, but he supported the Second World War. He believed it was important to defeat Hitler and fascism. J B Priestley died in 1984.

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