'ANIMAL FARM' - WORKSHEET ON CHAPTER 6

A- VOCABULARY

idle
to plough
to foresee
a quarry
namely
a boulder
a rope
a slope
to drag
to overstrain
a cockerel
badly-off
to weed
thorough
a shortage
seeds
manure
trade
uneasiness
to expel
awkwardness
a trotter
a burden
a solicitor
to dismiss
a broker
to dread
to cease
a sty
sheets
straw
blankets
to rob
duties
to marvel
to utter
wet
seldom
q struggle
mournfully
to avenge oneself
guilty
footprints
to snuff

B - WHO'S WHO ?
" a sly-looking man with whiskers"
"announced that he had decided upon a new policy" / referred to as the Leader
"broke into 'Four legs good, two legs bad' "
"did their share"
"idle and thieving"
"in his spare moments, he would go alone to the quarry"
"raised their voices timidly but were promptly silenced by the dogs"
"suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there"
"this traitor has crept here under cover of the night"
"warned Boxer not to overstrain himself"
"was able to convince them that this was not the case"
"would have his rations reduced by half"

Any animal who absented himself , Boxer, Clover, four young pigs, human beings, Mr Whymper, Muriel and Benjamin, Napoleon, Snowball, Squealer, the pigs, the sheep

C - WHAT'S WHAT? WHEN'S WHAT?

" the fruit of all their struggles"
" was little less successful than in the previous year"
"began to make themselves felt"
"could have been achieved without Boxer"
"Doesn't it say something about never sleeping in bed?"
"how to break up the stones"
"pronounced them to be snowball's"
"when the pigs would get up from now on"
"when the windmill was destroyed by a gale"

a problem, an hour later, footprints, nothing, November, shortages, the Fourth Commandment,
the harvest, the windmill

D- FILL IN THE GAPS IN THIS SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER

The .................... year of Animal Farm sees the animals working every day, including ...................., on building the .....................
It takes up so much .................... that the .................... is less successful than the .................... year's.
Boxer's Herculean .................... keeps the windmill project going.
As some things cannot be .................... by the farm, Napoleon decides to .................... with the other farms.
This trade is conducted through Mr ...................., a solicitor. Squealer quells the protests of the .....................
The pigs .................... into the farmhouse. In ...................., a storm .................... the half-finished windmill .
The absent .................... is blamed by Napoleon.