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Year 8 work booklet
ILLUSIONS AND REALITY
BURNT MILL ACADEMY
This is an extract from The Landlady by Roald Dahl. Read it closely, and answer the questions on the next page.
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The Landlady Questions
Find a phrase to show that the weather is pleasant:
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Find a phrase to show that the weather is not pleasant:
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Find three words or phrases that describe Billy’s appearance:
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Why is Billy trying to walk ‘briskly’?
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What has happened to the houses, that once looked impressive?
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What is it that makes the Bed and Breakfast look so attractive?
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Find three words or phrases that show the reader what the inside of the Bed and Breakfast looks like:
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Based on its appearance, what does Billy think of the Bed and Breakfast?
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Writing Task
This extract is the opening of the story. Your task is to write what happens next.
Remembering Freytag’s Pyramid, what you have read is the exposition of the story. You need to include rising action, a climax, falling action, and a denouement (or resolution).
The story is called The Landlady, and as such your story must introduce the lady who owns the Bed and Breakfast.
The final thing to remember is that, this year, you have been studying stories based on illusions and reality. Perhaps your story could show that the pleasant appearance of the Bed and Breakfast is an illusion, or not what it seems…
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This is the opening from 1984 by George Orwell, who wrote Animal Farm.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for HateWeek. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.
[…] Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere. The black-moustachio’d face gazed down from every commanding corner. There was one on the house-front immediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston’s own.
Down at street level another poster, torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind, alternately covering and uncovering the single word INGSOC. In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people’s windows. The patrols did not matter, however. Only the Thought Police mattered.
Questions on the next page.
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What phrases tell us what the conditions are like outside?
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In paragraph 2, how does the reader get the impression that the inside of the building is unpleasant?
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What phrases tell us that this world is not like ours?
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Find two phrases that show us that Winston feels like he is being watched.
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What do you think the ‘Thought Police’ might do?
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What impression do you get of this world, and do you think Winston is comfortable here?
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Writing Task
In class, you have been studying argumentative essays. These are essays which argue an opinion through their use of vocabulary, but never use the words ‘I think…’
Write an argumentative essay (introduction, two body paragraphs, conclusion) that argues that this world is actually a place people should want to visit. In this world, people are constantly watched by ‘Big Brother’ and are not allowed to think anything negative about the people in charge. Your challenge is to make that sound appealing, and convince people that they should want to come and live there!
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Who is the worst leader of Animal Farm, Napoleon or Mr Jones?
Mr Jones: Napoleon:
Write an argumentative essay to support your point. Use the extracts above to remind yourself of some of the things both have done as leaders. Use the boxes below to plan your ideas and help choose a side of the argument.
Mr Jones Napoleon
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Write an academic essay on Boxer’s role in the farm.
Here are some key extracts to help you, which you can choose quotes from. The first extract is where Boxer tries to learn the alphabet. The second extract is after Napoleon has executed some of the animals.
Here are some questions to consider in your answer:
What does Boxer do? Do the other animals appreciate him more for it? What keeps Boxer working, what are the slogans he repeats? Is he being manipulated into working? Is he intelligent? If he was more intelligent, would he be able to see what was
happening on the farm? How does a reader feel about Boxer? Sympathetic and on his side, or against
him?
Here are some sentence starters you can use within your essay:
George Orwell clearly shows Boxer as ……………………..
This is shown when ………………………….
Boxer is presented as …………………….....
Napoleon needs Boxer because…………….
The reader feels ……………. towards Boxer because …………..
However…. Alternatively…. Furthermore….
Use the space below to plan out what you’re going to say in your essay:
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This is the opening of Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot. The Magi is the name of the three wise men, who travelled to see the birth of Jesus. The story The Gift of the Magi contains an allusion to them.
“A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.”
And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices:
A hard time we had of it.
At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.
Questions on the next page.
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Questions
Why do you think the poet has put the first five lines in speech marks? Who might be speaking?
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Find four things the poet says that the Magi struggled with:
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What word on the last line tells you that the Magi might be regretting their decision?
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Later in the poem, the Magi discover that their journey was worth it, because they witness the Birth of Jesus. Why do you think the poet has started the poem with the bad things about the journey?
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This year you have been studying the theme illusions and reality. How could this tie into the poem? (Consider your answer to the previous question to help.)
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How has the poet used weather to create an impression that the journey is bad?
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Writing Task
Write a descriptive writing piece on the journey that the Magi make. You can use the image and poem for inspiration. Remember that even though the story is descriptive, it still needs to have a beginning, middle and end. Use this word bank to help.
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stunning vibrant colourful luminous sparklingradiant mysterious unusual surreal attractivetreacherous perilous unforgiving tremendous vastsharp dark unfriendly burning grotesque
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