I.

Read the following paragraph from George Orwell’s dystopian future, ‘1984’ and in pairs
discuss the questions from 1-4.
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 Hate Week. 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.

1. Create a visual diagram of the novel’s introduction.

2. What is your perception of Winston Smith? Do you see him as a ‘conventional hero’?
3. Explain with your own words the meaning of BIG BROTHER.
4. Discuss the concepts of privacy and freedom of speech/thought in the novel.
II. Put the following paragraphs into the correct order according to the plot of the novel.
(A) ________
’Í betrayed you,’ she said baldly.
‘I betrayed you,’ he said.
She gave him another quick look of dislike.
‘Sometimes,’ she said, ‘they threaten you with something something you can’t stand up to, can’t even
think about. And then you say, ‘Don’t do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to so-and-so.’ And
perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop
and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think
there’s no other way of saving yourself, and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it
to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.’
‘All you care about is yourself,’ he echoed.

(B) ________
Winston was dreaming of his mother.He must, he thought, have been ten or eleven years old when his
mother had disappeared. She was a tall, statuesque, rather silent woman with slow movements and
magnificent fair hair. His father he remembered more vaguely as dark and thin, dressed always in neat
dark clothes (Winston remembered especially the very thin soles of his father’s shoes) and wearing
spectacles. The two of them must evidently have been swallowed up in one of the first great purges of the
fifties.
(C) _______
The beatings grew less frequent, and became mainly a threat, a horror to which he could be sent back at
any moment when his answers were unsatisfactory. His questioners now were not ruffians in black
uniforms but Party intellectuals, little rotund men with quick movements and flashing spectacles, who
worked on him in relays over periods which lasted—he thought, he could not be sure—ten or twelve
hours at a stretch. These other questioners saw to it that he was in constant slight pain, but it was not
chiefly pain that they relied on. They slapped his face, wrung his ears, pulled his hair, made him stand on
one leg, refused him leave to urinate, shone glaring lights in his face until his eyes ran with water; but the
aim of this was simply to humiliate him and destroy his power of arguing and reasoning.

III Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

1. Winston Smith is a rebel who fights against the Party.

2. There is no personal freedom, all actions are observed by the ever-present telescreens.
3. Children aren’t indoctrinated into the beliefs of the Party at an early age
4. Previous works of literature are being re-written so that their original meanings are lost.
5. Winston betrays Julia.
6. The final picture of Winston shows a broken, worthless man, in love with Big Brother.

IV. Complete with the missing words from the novel:

a. War is………………
b. Ignorance is……………
c. Freedom is……………
d. Two and two make………….
e. Eastasia is at war with…………..
f. Big Brother……………..
V. The official language of Oceania is Newspeak. Try to find as many terms as possible in the
novel and explain why Newspeak was created in the first place. Complete the table below with
the terms you find.
Oldspeak (Standard Newspeak Your own meaning Page
English)

VI. Refer to the narrative point of view in ‘1984’. Is the dystopian nature of the society in the
novel described from the outside or from the inside? Give relevant arguments to support your
idea(s).
VII. Follow-up activity
Note down all the ways in which people’s lives are controlled and point out what effects this
control will have on them. Write your ideas in 200-250 words.
https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/1984.pdf
Limba engleză
Clasa: 10
Topic: The dystopian novel, ‘1984’ by G. Orwell
Competența specifică vizată:
1.3 Identificarea de informații cheie din texte autentice
Skills: reading, speaking, writing
Materials: free pdf https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/1984.pdf
Activity 1- Speaking. Group work. Ss-Ss, T-Ss, T-S, S-T interaction
Procedure: - Ss are asked to note down all the ways in which people’s lives are controlled and
point out what effects this control will have on them. Then, students discuss about the novel and
the meaning of the dystopian (anti-utopian) novel, as they had to read the book prior to this class.
They point out the characters and the key points in the novel.
Activity 2- Speaking&Reading. Pair work. S-S, T-Ss, T-S, S-T interaction
Procedure: Ss receive worksheets from the teacher. In pairs, they read the paragraph and discuss
the questions in ex. I. They are asked to write down their ideas and later on to share them with
the whole class.
Activity 3- Speaking&Reading. Indvidual work. S-T, T-S, T-Ss interaction
Procedure: Ss are required to think about the correct order of the events according to the plot of
the novel and solve ex.II&III. The teacher offers the necessary feedback after the tasks are
completed.
Activity 4- Writing. Pair work. Competition. S-S, S-T, T-S, T-SS interaction
Procedure: Ss are asked to look closely in the book (or use the pdf version) and find out the
missing words from the Party’s slogans. The team who finishes ex. IV first, wins.
Activity 5- Group work. Ss-Ss, T-Ss, T-S, S-T interaction
Procedure: Ss are required to search for as many words as possible that belong to Newspeak and
compare them with Standard English. After the groups have gathered the words, Ss read them
out loud and they add the ones that were found by the other groups.
Activity 6- Follow-up activity. Individual work
Procedure: Refer to the narrative point of view in ‘1984’. Is the dystopian nature of the society in
the novel described from the outside or from the inside? Give relevant arguments to support your
ideas. Write your ideas in 200-250 words.
Evaluarea se face pe tot parcursul lecției de către profesor, dar și de către colegi.
Această activitate de învățare poate fi folosită la disciplinele limba și literatura română și istorie,
unde se pot studia regimurile totalitare.

Limba engleză
Clasa: 6
Topic: Past Tense Simple; regular and irregular verbs
Competențe specifice vizate: 1.2 Identificarea semnificației generale a mesajelor orale curente,
clar și rar articulate
2.2. Participarea la scurte interacțiuni verbale cu sprijin din partea interlocutorilor
Skills: reading, speaking, writing, listening
Methods: conversation, observation, exercises.
Materials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbzMC6qAzVU flashcards, blackboard,
whiteboard, students’ notebooks, textbooks.
Evaluation: through observation and analysis of answers, feedback from the teacher, peer
evaluation
Interactions/student groupings: T-Ss; Ss-T; S-S; individual work, group work, pair work, whole class
Activity 1- speaking
Procedure: students present their work which was done prior to this class – a simple story called
My day yesterday, on a poster using pictures from newspapers, magazines etc.
Activity 2 - speaking
Procedure: "Yesterday, I verb+ed"
On the board, the T draws a vertical line down the middle, dividing the board into two equal
halves. She sticks the regular verb flashcards onto the left-half of the board. The T tells her
students she is going to ask each person "What did you do yesterday?" and they have to give an
answer using one of the verb flashcards on the board using "Yesterday, I …" and their answer
must be true.

Activity 3- speaking&writing
Procedure: The teacher divides the class up into groups of 3 or 4 and divides the flashcards
(containing irregular verbs) between the groups. The T draws circles on the board and under
them she writes the past simple of the verbs written on the flashcards.
 wake up – woke up
 eat – ate etc.
Next, she asks students to put the flashcards on the board inside the corresponding circle
Activity 4- speaking &listening
Procedure: Watch the video of Little Red Riding Hood and put the events in order:
______the wolf ate Granny up
_____ The wolf went to Granny’s house
_____One day, Little Red Riding Hood went to visit her granny
_____ Little Red Riding Hood looked at the wolf’s eyes, years, nose and mouth
_____ Little Red Riding Hood and her Granny were saved by a woodcutter

Role play: Ss act out the dialogue between the wolf and Red Riding Hood.
Then, the teacher draws a map of the story in which she elicits from the students verbs in the past
simple tense.
Activity 5 – speaking&writing
Procedure: In pairs, Ss are asked to change the story of Little Red Riding Hood-while using the
simple past- and present it to the class. Ss are encouraged to appreciate the work of their
classmates.

Această activitate de învățare poate fi folosită la disciplina limba și literatura română.