Young Adult Eli Readers 1/A1: 1984 + Downloadable Multimedia

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever." This novel was written by George Orwell in 1949 and set in 1984 London which is now the headquarters of a totalitarian world. It is the story of Winston Smith, an ordinary man whose job it is to rewrite history for the Party of Oceania, one of the three superstates in the world. The book follows Winston's life as he tries to rebel against the Party at all costs, in spite of the dangers involved. Topics: Politics, Psychology, Technology, Identity and Personality, Freedom and Dystopia. Grammar and structures: Adverbs, Comparatives and superlatives, 1st and 2nd conditionals, Cause and effect, Future continuous, Modals, Past perfect, Past simple, Past continuous, Prepositions, Present continuous, Present perfect, Passive, Reported speech.