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1 $Hfi:i,Si*:irt Worl< in pairs. What do you l<now about: 4 {ii.fl.i,#1lffffii# Discuss this question in pairs: What do you thinl(
1 the Russian Revolution? 2 Statin? might happen later in the story with regard to the Seven
3 tife in the Soviet Union before the fatt of Communism? Commandments?
2 6il fnCn Listen to information aboutAnimol Farm and db fCCO Listen to an extract from near the end of the story.
George Orwell. Answer the questions. Did you mal<e any correct predictions in exercise 4?
1 ln which countries did 0rwetl live before returning to 6 S& fnCO Listen again and answer the questions.
England in the 1930s?
1 Which of the first six commandments have the pigs
2 ln which war did he fight, and on which side?
broken? ln what way?
3 Why did he have to flee from Spain?
What other resolution described in the text in exercise 3
4 Why was he critical of left-wing people in Britain?
have the pigs atso broken?
5 Did 0rwett betieve that the Russian Revotution was totatty
What role do (a) the sheep (b) the dogs have on the
wrong? Why?/Why not?
farm?
6 What other famous bool<s did he write?
4 How has the seventh commandment been attered?
3 Read the extract from Animal Farm. Answer the questions. 5 ln what way is this new single commandment
nonsensical and contradictory?
1 How does the animats'fear and wonderment manifest
itself as they look round the farmhouse?
Hi,ff.Hi{ifl#ffi3 Do you thinl< attegories are an effective way of
2 What do the animals resotve to do with the house? conveying a political message? Give reasons.
3 What have the pigs done that demonstrates how much
cleverer they are than the other animals?
4 What does Snowball first use the paint for?
5 The commandments are designed to unite the animals, Napoleon sent for pots of black and white paint and led
and to emphasise the distinction between them and ihe way down to the five-barred gate that gave on the
what else? main road. Then Snowball (for it was Snowball who was
(The animals have justtoken control of the farm and expelled best at writing) took a brush between the two knuckles of
his trotter, painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar
Farmer lones.)
of the gate and in its place painted ANIMAL FARM. This
They filed back to the farm buildings and halted in was to be the name of the farm from now onwards. After
this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowbail
silence outside the door of the farmhouse. That was theirs
too, but they were frightened to go inside. After a moment, and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be
set against the end waII of the big barn. They explained
however, Snowball and Napoleon butted the door open
that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had
with their shoulders and the animals entered in single
fiie, walking with the utmost care for fear of disturbing succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to seven
commandments. These seven commandments would now
anything. They tiptoed from room to room, afraid to
be inscribed on the wa1l; they would form an unalterable
speak above a whisper and gazing with a kind of awe
law by which all animals on Animal Farm must live for
at the unbelievable luxury, at the beds with their feather
ever after. With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to
mattresses, the looking-glasses, the horsehair sofa, the
Brussels carpet, the lithograph of Queen Victoria over the balance himself on a ladder) Snowball climbed up and set
to work, with Squealer a few rungs below him holding the
drawing-room mantelpiece [...] A unanimous resolution
paint-pot. The commandments were written on the tarred
was passed on the spot that the farmhouse should be
preserved as a museum. A11 were agreed that no animal wa1l in great white letters that could be read thirty yards
must ever live there. away. They ran thus:
The animais had their breakfast and then Snowball and
THE SEVENCOMMANDMENTS
Napoleon ca11ed them together again.
'Comrades,' said Snowba11, 'it is half-past six and we 1 Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
have a long day before us. Today we begin the hay harvest. 2 Whaterrer goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
But there is another matter that must be attended to first.' 3 No animal sha11 r,vear clothes.
4 No animal shall sleep in a bed.
The pigs now revealed that during the past three
months ihey had taught themselves to read and write from 5 No animal shall drink alcohol.
6 No animal shall kill any other animal.
an old spelling book which had belonged to Mr Jones's
7 A11 animals are equal.
children and which had been thrown on the rubbish heap.

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