Individual Oral Presentation: Animal Farm

3 - 4 minutes

Review:
● Review Book themes of Animal Farm
● Find one relevant piece of information about the author, setting, etc to mention in
your introduction. Remember this will be just a line.
● Review information about characters and their analysis
● Check Book summary
● Review Assessment criteria (how will you be graded)
● Review the use of linkers and connectors.
● Review the organization of the presentation (miniguide)
● You can find support material in Google Classroom.
● Check the extract attached and prepare the first part of your IO.
● Take 20 minutes to prepare for your presentation. Write 10 bullet points to guide you.

Aspects that will be evaluated:

Criterion A: Language Criterion B1: Criterion B2: Criterion C:

How successfully does Message—literary Message—convers Interactive
the candidate command extract ation skills—communicat
spoken language? How relevant are the How relevant are ion
• To what extent is the ideas to the literary the ideas in the To what extent does
vocabulary appropriate and extract? conversation? the candidate
varied? • How well does the • How appropriately understand and
• To what extent are the candidate engage with and thoroughly does interact?
grammatical structures the literary extract in the candidate • How well can the
varied? the presentation? respond to the candidate express
• To what extent does the questions in the ideas?
accuracy of the language conversation? • How well can the
contribute to effective • To what depth are candidate maintain a
communication? the questions conversation?
• To what extent do answered?
pronunciation and
intonation affect
communication?

Content:
● Introduces the author and describes the setting and its importance.
● Summary of the extract; mentioning who the narrator is.
● Briefly relate the extract to the literary work.
● Describes the roles of the characters mentioned in the extract.
● The individual oral assessment is based on the course themes: identities,
experiences, human ingenuity, social organization, sharing the planet.
 ● Expresses her opinions on the characters, events, ideas, and themes (identities,
social organization, human ingenuity, etc.) presented in the extract. Do we learn
anything about the characters? How do you feel about the characters?
● States the message of the extract related to the themes.
● Provides a sensible conclusion or message (Importance of the extract)

Extract:
Moreover, it was the biggest harvest that the farm had ever seen. There was no wastage
whatever; the hens and ducks with their sharp eyes had gathered up the very last stalk.
And not an animal on the farm had stolen so much as a mouthful.
All through that summer the work of the farm went like clockwork. The animals were happy
as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive
pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves,
not doled out to them by a grudging master. With the worthless parasitical human beings
gone, there was more for everyone to eat. There was more leisure too, inexperienced
though the animals were. They met with many difficulties — for instance, later in the year,
when they harvested the corn, they had to tread it out in the ancient style and blow away
the chaff with their breath, since the farm possessed no threshing machine — but the pigs
with their cleverness and Boxer with his tremendous muscles always pulled them through.
Boxer was the admiration of everybody. He had been a hard worker even in Jones’s time,
but now he seemed more like three horses than one; there were days when the entire work
of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders. From morning to night, he was pushing
and pulling, always at the spot where the work was hardest. He had made an arrangement
with one of the cockerels to call him in the mornings half an hour earlier than anyone else
and would put in some volunteer labour at whatever seemed to be most needed before the
regular day’s work began. His answer to every problem, every setback, was ‘I will work
harder!’ — which he had adopted as his personal motto.

Animal Farm, George Orwel

Chapter III
309 words

Information:
Author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Born Eric Arthur Blair in British-controlled India, he used the name George Orwell for
publication. Written during World War II, Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian
Revolution that criticizes the Stalinist government. Through his writings, Orwell became a
leading voice on political and social issues.

Year Published: 1945

Allegory of Rebellion and Corruption: The animals of Manor Farm in England rebel
against their farmer, Mr. Jones, and rename their homestead Animal Farm. Although they
begin with guidelines for equality, the pigs eventually rule by fear, setting up a totalitarian
existence. In this memorable allegory of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the characters
represent specific historical figures.

Main Characters:
- Old Major: old, wise pig, represents socialist revolutionary Karl Marx
- Napoleon: leader of rebellion who rules by fear, represents Soviet leader Joseph
Stalin
- Squealer: manipulative pig, represents Russian media, which spread propaganda to
the masses
- Snowball: intellectual pig cast out from the farm, represents banished Russian
leader Leon Trotsky
- Boxer: powerful but dense cart horse, represents the proletariat
- Mr. Jones: represents the tyrannical Tsar Nicholas II

Themes of Animal Farm:

- Exploitation: Animal Farm illustrates how class stratification occurs when someone
holds power over an overworked and undereducated underclass.
- Deception: To maintain rule, Napoleon and the other pigs lie to the other animals,
changing the rules.
- Corruption: A critique of Soviet Communism, Animal Farm shows how a totalitarian
society can emerge after a rebellion intended for equality.

ORAL PRESENTATION:

● Mention the name of the novel, his author and the year of publication
● Introduces, with relevant pieces of information, the author
● Summary of the extract
● Describe the context of the book, and the important characters
● Where the characters are in the extract and where does this scene this appear in the
novel, describes the roles of the characters mentioned
● Describe what are the author’s intentions
● Describes the setting and its importance.
● Briefly relate the extract to the literary work, with his allegory to the Russian
Revolution
● Express her opinions on the characters, events, ideas, and themes, say what is the
theme of the book, it must be presented in the extract, and describe where and how it
is presented, such these themes: Exploitation, Deception and Corruption
● Relate the theme with these themes: identities, experiences, human ingenuity, social
organization, sharing the planet. They must be presented in the extract, and describe
where and how it is presented.
● Explain what we learn about the characters, and tell how do you feel about the
characters
● States the message of the extract related to the themes.
● Provides a sensible conclusion or message (Importance of the extract)