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English (Edexcel)
Animal Farm: the pigs and power

Starter quiz

  • Which of these would you not find in a three part structure for an introduction to an essay?
    • Thesis statement
    • Focus on character or theme from question
    • Conclusive discourse marker  ✓
    • General comment about the text
  • Which of these is not a conclusive discourse marker?
    • Consequently
    • In conclusion
    • Ultimately
    • Presenting  ✓
    • Finally
  • Which of these are examples of complex sentences with fronted subordinate clauses?
    • Orwell describes the ...
    • In presenting Napoleon as ruthless, ...  ✓
    • Squealer uses a rhetorical question when he ...
    • Through the characterisation of Boxer, ...  ✓
  • Match the type of context to the contextual information linked to George Orwell and 'Animal Farm'.
    • Social
      ⇔
      Orwell explores attitudes towards education. ✓
    • Biographical
      ⇔
      Orwell worked for the BBC between 1941 and 1943. ✓
    • Historical
      ⇔
      Animal Farm was published in 1945. ✓
    • Literary
      ⇔
      Animal Farm uses the tradition of a fairy tale. ✓
  • Complete the quotes from 'Animal Farm' by matching the start of the quote to the end of the quote.
    • No animal shall sleep in a bed
      ⇔
      with sheets. ✓
    • Napoleon was a large,
      ⇔
      rather fierce looking boar. ✓
    • ...had a way of skipping
      ⇔
      from side to side and whisking his tail ✓
    • Surely, comrades,
      ⇔
      you do not want Jones back? ✓
    • Napoleon
      ⇔
      is always right. ✓
  • Which character from 'Animal Farm' says "The only good human being is a dead one."
    • Boxer
    • Napoleon
    • Old Major
    • Snowball  ✓
    • Squealer
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