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2 Watch the report again and answer the questions.

1 Watch the video report. Write notes

about the dates. a 1903 b 1917 c 1927
d 1936 e 1943 f 1949

1 Where did Orwell go to school?

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2 What did he do in Burma?

3 Which war did he fight in?

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4 How long did it take him to write Animal Farm?

5 Where was he buried?

6 How is his vision of the future described?

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Vocabulary Extra
3 Match the words (15) with their definitions (ae).
1 wounded
2 track
3 living rough
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4 propaganda 5
database a
follow the
movements of
somebody/som
ething,

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especially by
using
electronic
equipment b
false or
exaggerated

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political
statements c
an organised
set of
information d
living or

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sleeping
outdoors,
usually
because you
have no home
and no money

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e hurt or
injured in an
accident

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Intermediate DVD clip Worksheet

: Answer key
1
1 Orwell was born.
2 Orwell went to Eton College.
3 Orwell returned from Burma.
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4 Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War.

5 Orwell started writing Animal Farm.
6 1984 was published.
2
1 Eton College
2 He was in the police.
3 the Spanish Civil War
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4 two years
5 in a peaceful cemetery in the English countryside
6 alarmingly accurate
3
1e
2 a

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3 d
4 b
5 c

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: Script
Over sixty years ago, the British writer
George Orwell wrote a novel about a society
in which the government controls all
aspects of peoples lives through
propaganda, surveillance, and violence.

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That novel was 1984. Orwell wrote the novel

as a political satire, but some people believe
that a lot of his ideas have become reality.
For example, in the UK, we are constantly
monitored by CCTV. Satellites track our every
move. Personal details are held on huge
databases. Even our phonecalls and emails
can be hacked or tapped.

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But what do we know about Orwell himself?

And what influenced the writing of 1984 and
his other major political novel, Animal
Farm?
Orwells real name was Eric Arthur Blair and
he was born in India in 1903. When he was
fourteen he went to Eton College, Englands
most expensive school. His first job, when he

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was just twenty, was in the police in Burma,

now also known as Myanmar.
When he returned from Burma in 1927, he
lived in London and Paris where he
experimented with dressing like a tramp and
living rough. As a result he wrote his first
book, Down and Out in Paris and London.

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In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the

Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, but
he was wounded and escaped back to
England in 1937.
From 1941, he worked for the BBC in
London, and in 1943 he started writing
Animal Farm. This was published in 1945
and became an international success which

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he followed four years later with 1984.

Both novels were based on Orwells
experiences in the Spanish Civil War, his
life and work in England, and the political
situation at the time, particularly in Russia.
In 1950, shortly after 1984 was published,
Orwell died and was buried in a peaceful
cemetery in the English countryside,
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unaware how alarmingly accurate his

vision of the future was.

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Intermediate DVD clip Script

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