Designed by Camelo Natalia, Cardona Jennifer, Granados Yolimer CONTENT BRAVE NEW WORLD BY ALDOU HUXLEY FROM CHAPTER

1 TO 5 1. PRE-READING Speaking Skill Listening Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill 2. WHILE-READING Speaking Skill Listening Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill 3. POST-READING Speaking Skill Listening Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill

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1. PRE-READING: 1.1 Writing and speaking Skills Complete the following chart, and then be prepared to discuss your answers with your classmates.

What have you heard about Predict what the story might be What other books by Write tittle and the cover of the book. heard about or read? descriptions or If you were genetically manipulated about just by looking at the the author have you brainstorm ideas of what a by a company. How would you feel? community is. Would you be happy? Why?

this novel?

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a. Read the next quote and answer the questions below.

Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg. Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines! The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm. You really know where you are. For the first time in history. He quoted the planetary motto. Community, Identity, Stability. Grand words. If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved. Chapter I. Pag 8

A. What is the main idea of this quote? B. According to the quote what do Community, Identity, Stability. Refers to? C. Would you like to be part of this community? Why?

Designed by Camelo Natalia, Cardona Jennifer, Granados Yolimer 1.3 Listening Skill

Watch the next video clip from an adaptation of the book, and think of the book is going to be about. Then comment on it.

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2. WHILE-READING

2.1 Reading skill

a. Which are the five castes that the hatchery destines for each fetus? Explain their roles and characteristics and design a symbol for each one!

b. Through a drawing, explain the Bokanovwsky process!

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c. How does the process of consumptions of goods work for Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons?

d. What does instinctive hatred of books and flowers mean? e. What is the secret of happiness and virtue? f. Why have Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons been conditioned to like flowers in particular and wild nature in general? g. Create a story with the main events of the 5 chapters, drawing the places and the descriptions. h. Write a short essay explaining the pros and cons of a perfect society considering the use of technology and the process of cloning humans. Draw the principal ideas in order to explain

2.2 listening and Speaking Skills Listen the quotes, and then write the main idea of these excerpts. Please visit voki.com to listen to the quotes.

Designed by Camelo Natalia, Cardona Jennifer, Granados Yolimer a. Major instruments of social stability. Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg. "Ninetysix identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!" The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm. "You really know where you are. For the first time in history." He quoted the planetary motto. "Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved." Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology. Chapter I. * The main idea of this excerpt :

________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ * What is your opinion about this excerpt? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ b. "Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity? "Chapter I.

* The main idea of this excerpt: ________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ * What is your opinion about this excerpt? ________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ c. "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear

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________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ * What is your opinion about this excerpt? d. Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches; the more stitches.Chapter III.

* The main idea of this excerpt: ________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ * What is your opinion about this excerpt? ________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________

2.3 Speaking Skill

a. Why does the Bokanovwsky process facilitate social stability? b. What is the objective of the process of consumptions of goods for Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons? c. How does the use of psychological techniques control the future behavior of World State Citizens?

Designed by Camelo Natalia, Cardona Jennifer, Granados Yolimer d. What do you think if technology can retain the mental and physical character of youth throughout life? e. What are the disadvantages of belonging to a low caste?

3. POST READING

3.1 Writing Skill

a. Choose one character from the book, you can choose the one you liked the most. Then, write how would be his or her life if he or she were you. What would be his or her part in the story, would it be different or the same? b. How would be your perfect world? Describe it. Would you world have a Community, identity, stability or freedom?

3.2 Speaking and Reading skill

a. Read the following quotation, and then discuss it with a partner. Do you agree or not? Why? b. You all remember, said the Controller, in his strong deep voice, you all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk. History, he repeated slowly, is bunk. c. What is a utopia? Does the book have one? Discuss this with your partner

3.3 Listening skill

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Listen to the following song named Brave New World from Iron Maiden. Then, write how this song and the lyric are related with the book. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B-

r2sEBSyE&feature=related