'ANIMAL FARM' - WORKSHEET ON CHAPTER 7

A- VOCABULARY

frost
thick
drastically
edible
starvation
collapse
hitherto
a glimpse
deceived
outcry
thwart
ruthlessly
timber
snout
plot
be in league with
lure
fled
lurk
shriek
crush
countenance
add
tore their throats out
ring-leaders
urge
bonfire
miserable
witness
bloodshed
huddle
inch
dare
lack
long for
harm

B - WHO'S WHO ?

"they were always cold , and usually hungry as well"
"made excellent speeches on the joy of service and the dignity of labour"
"were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm"
"he was deceived"
"rarely appeared in public, but spent all his time in the farmhouse"
"they made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon's wishes."
"driving up to the farm once a week to take them away"
"he was rumoured to be hiding in one of the neighbouring farms"
"were said to be in league with Snowball"
"I do not believe that", he said
"they appeared to go quite mad"
"Napoleon called upon them to confess their crimes"
"they were all slain on the spot"
"had composed another song"

a grocer's van, Boxer, four pigs, Minimus, Napoleon, Snowball, Squealer, the animals, the dogs, the hens, the human beings, the rats, three hens + one goose + three sheep, Whymper

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

Bitterly cold winter weather ........................ work on the windmill and there are ........................ shortages.
........................ is deceived into thinking that the food bins are ........................ and believes ........................ is in a position to trade.
Napoleon ........................ the hens to give up their .........................
There's a witch-hunt for ........................, who is blamed for everything that goes .........................
At one point, ........................ challenges the pigs.
Later on, at an assembly, Napoleon has a show-trial of four of the .........................
And other animals are forced to ........................ to ludicrous crimes and are ........................ by the dogs.
The dogs also ........................ Boxer, but he repels them.
On the ........................, Clover and the other animals try to ........................ their grief by singing .........................
But Squealer tells them it has been ........................ by another song.