Explore ready-to-use materials for teaching Brave New World, from a short film and guided reading to discussion and creative classroom activities. The resources explore identity, conformity, technology, consumerism and freedom, and connect Huxley’s novel with the world your students live in today.
Use them as a complete teaching unit or pick individual activities to suit your class.
In “Follow Me”, a girl raised in a world defined by social media meets a boy who has lived outside it. As she draws him into her digital world, both confront the loss of individuality and freedom.
The film is an ideal way into Brave New World: It asks Huxley’s questions about control, conformity
and happiness in the world your students know.
Comprehension questions, language and style, a writing task comparing Follow Me with Brave New World, a paired discussion and a homework task. The tasks are modelled on Cambridge English exam formats.
The short film “Follow Me” above comes with its own worksheet and makes a strong starting point. Below you will find two further resources.
The Accompanying Dossier by W. Ph. Conrad is a printable student workbook in two parts. It follows Fred Fordham’s graphic novel adaptation with background information, guided questions, discussion prompts and research tasks.
The Creative Classroom Workshop from the Aldous Huxley Centre Zurich is a presentation for teachers. Students become advertisers, journalists, propagandists and podcasters in the World State, working with extracts from Huxley’s original novel.
Use the dossier as the backbone of your unit and add workshop activities whenever you want
students to create something of their own.
A printable workbook for advanced learners, with space for students to write their answers directly on the sheets. Part 1 accompanies the reading; Part 2 assumes students already know the plot and the main characters. Tasks marked “Discuss” work well in pairs or as a whole class.
Page references in the questions refer to Fred Fordham’s graphic novel adaptation of Brave New World.
A presentation for teachers who want active, production-based lessons. Students advertise soma, invent dystopian products, report from a Solidarity Service, analyse Huxley’s settings and characters, design World State propaganda and restage the great debate between John and Mustapha Mond.
Every activity comes with a clear brief and success criteria. The speaker notes contain teacher guidance, and the novel extracts are already in the slides, so no extra photocopying is needed.
Project the slides, print them as task cards or adapt them for group work.
Comprehension questions, language and style, a writing task comparing Follow Me with Brave
New World, a paired discussion and a homework task. The tasks are modelled on Cambridge
English exam formats.
