SE Speaking 2020/2021: Texts 3 and 4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Text 3: ADHD is different for women

Text 4: 'Drugs, drunks, rats ... then Dad walked in'

Programme

Choose 1 of the 2 texts to do the exercises on.

'Just' read the other text.

Text 3: slides 3 - 12

Text 4: slides 13 - 22

Text 3: ADHD is different for women

What do you already know about ADHD?

Did you know...

... that ADHD is different for women?

Watch the following clip from 'How to ADHD' by Jessica McCabe to get an idea.

What question(s) do you still have after watching the video?

Now ...

... read the text in your green reader.

What images or facts stuck with you most after reading this text? Find a maximum of 5 pictures to illustrate this.

Find 5 words in the text that you don't know the meaning of and look up their translation or explanation.

Summarise

Write a summary of the text or make a mind map on paper, so you can use this in preparation of your SE Speaking in test week 3.

Is there anything that you don't understand yet?

Text 4: 'Drugs, drunks, rats... then Dad walked in'

Before reading:
What do you think this text could be about?

A short introduction to the text

Nick Flynn (born January 26, 1960) is an American writer, playwright, and poet. He met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston.

As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery.

The book "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other.

Watch the following short clip with an interview with Nick Flynn.

Now ...

... read the text in your green reader.

After listening to him and reading about his life and some of his work, would you like to read a poem or biography he has written? Why (not)?

What images or facts stuck with you most after reading this text? Find a maximum of 5 pictures to illustrate this.

Find 5 words in the text that you don't know the meaning of and look up their translation or explanation.

Summarise

Write a summary of the text or make a mind map on paper, so you can use this in preparation of your SE Speaking in test week 3.

Is there anything that you don't understand yet?

Share

In class, if there's time, share your ideas about your text with someone else (preferably someone who's read the other text).