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  LESSON PLAN NAME OF THE COURSE: English History TOPIC :Industrial Revolution TARGET AUDIENCE : Students of the department of linguistic, translation and interpreting and English language and literature. Description This course adopts a global perspective in surveying the great transformation in history known as the “Industrial Revolution.” Briefly defined, the Industrial Revolution represented a new way of organizing work and making things. The British commentator, Sir Thomas Carlyle, appropriately called it “a mechanical age” because the invention and use of self-acting machinery became one of its most striking characteristics. It was a time when hand tools and craft methods began to give way to water and steam-powered factories, canals, steamboats, and railroads. It also witnessed a “communications revolution” (led by high speed printing presses and telegraphy) that touched the lives not only of industrial workers but entire populations. This class seeks to place these themes...