Hello 1LLCE 22-23

  Brave New World : Questions   A)     Main facts ®   (Wh- questions : who, what happens, where, why...? + who is the narrator?)   ® Let’s focus on the   characters:   -       What do you know about the director? Why?   -       What can you guess about the students? Justify?     B)     The references:   -       Who does “Bokanovski” refer to? How many babies can a single egg give?   -         When does the scene take place? Explain…     C)    What sort of text is it? Why?     D)    Focus on the details:   a)     Pick out expressions showing the students are ridiculous.   b)     Give equivalents: -         “scribbled” (l....

  BRAVE NEW WORLD , 1932 by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)   A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main en- trance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDEN- TITY, STABILITY […] "And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room." Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director's heels. Each of them carried a notebook, in which, whenever the great man spoke, he desperately scribbled. Straight from the horse's mouth. It was a rare privilege. The D. H. C. for Central London always made a point of personally conducting...