The document discusses different types of chairs and asks questions about their design, materials, age, intended usage, and comfort level. It prompts the reader to examine images of chairs from different eras and locations, including a Victorian dining chair, a 16th century carved wood chair, an African wooden chair, and a modern Japanese bamboo chair, and play the role of a "chair detective" by making inferences about each chair's history based on visual clues.

1. Chairs What do you know about chairs?

2. What can you tell me about these chairs?

3. What are they for?

4. How do they differ and do you know why?

5. How old or new are they?

6. What are they made of?

7. How many different materials are they made of?

8. Can we see how they might be made?

9. How many different sections does each one have?

10. Which do you like best and why?

11. What type of place do you think each chair has been designed for? Director’s chair At a desk In the garden ????

12. What type of place do you think each chair has been designed for? Dining room table ???

13. What type of place do you think each chair has been designed for? For children At the table For eating ???

14. What type of place do you think each chair has been designed for? In the living room Conservatory ???

15. What type of place do you think each chair has been designed for? At the beach In the garden ???

16. What type of place do you think each chair has been designed for? In a church ???

17. What type of place do you think each chair has been designed for? For a King and Queen ???

18. What type of place do you think each chair has been designed for? In the cinema ???

19. What type of place do you think each chair has been designed for? In a car ???

20. What type of place do you think each chair has been designed for? In a garden In a playground In a park ???

21. What type of place do you think each chair has been designed for? In a cafe ???

22. How old is it? How do you know? Are there any clues? What shapes can you see? What is it made of? What do you think the chair was used for? Who might have used it? Is it comfortable or uncomfortable? How do you know? Be a chair detective!

23. Were you right? Victorian era Dining chair Wood and fabric

24. Be a chair detective! How old is it? How do you know? Are there any clues? What shapes can you see? What is it made of? What do you think the chair was used for? Who might have used it? Is it comfortable or uncomfortable? How do you know?

25. Were you right? 16th Century Walnut carved wood painted (black) Dining chair

26. Be a chair detective! How old is it? How do you know? Are there any clues? What shapes can you see? What is it made of? What do you think the chair was used for? Who might have used it? Is it comfortable or uncomfortable? How do you know?

27. Were you right? African Wooden New

28. Be a chair detective! How old is it? How do you know? Are there any clues? What shapes can you see? What is it made of? What do you think the chair was used for? Who might have used it? Is it comfortable or uncomfortable? How do you know?

29. Were you right? Japanese Bamboo Modern