5. English - 1984 comprehension

​Module 5 Y6

​Today we will look at a new story!

​https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4vv1r4PmLl6G9LMEAKdzVTzilAatY9/view?usp=sharing

​This is our new text - 1984 by George Orwell!

​Let's briefly summarise what happened

• ​Winston - the main character, enters his home 'Victoy Mansions'

• Inside the building there are large posters about 'Big Brother'

• In Winston's flat a voice is reading out figures about production, amd Winston is described as small and frail

• Outside Winston's flat the surroundings are dreary and cold wit more posters about 'Big Brother'

• Within his flat the telescreen - which is broadcasting news and other propaganda, and also has a camera which is constantly watching him.

​Which technique does the writer use in the quotation,

“Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out...”?


What technique is it to describe the voice as fruity?

​Which technique does the writer use in the quotation,

“Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out...”?



The writer has used a metaphor - describing the voice as fruity to suggest the voice was light and enticing or interesting

​What was your impression of Winston's flat?

Here is a description
Inside the flat a fruity voice wasreading out a list of figures which had something to do with

the producon of pig-iron. The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror

which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. Winston turned a switch and the voice

sank somewhat, though the words were stll distnguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it

was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shuttng it off completely. He moved over

to the window:
Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was stll babbling away about

pig-iron and the over fulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and

transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low

whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of

vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.

​What do you think is the purpose of the telescreen in Winston's flat?

​Select the word from the options that have a similar meaning to the words in both sets of brackets.

(head expert) (learn overcome)
govern oversee dictate master

​Here is a common question within some papers