This lesson contains 16 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 2 videos.
Items in this lesson
Slide 1 - Video
What is anorexia? Can you list any symptoms?
Slide 2 - Open question
Do you agree that anorexia is typically 'girlish' thing? Would the symptoms be the same for boys and girls?
Slide 3 - Open question
Read A boy's struggle on pages 14 and 15 up to line 97. Underline/ highlight the most important information in every paragraph. Look up words you don't know.
Some words in the text are left out. In the following slide you will see the options. Choose the right word for every gap.
Slide 4 - Slide
1: diets eating food
2: barely not sometimes
3: decided discussed ordered
4: actually certainly really
5: by in through
6: continuing remaining surviving
Slide 5 - Slide
When did the problems with food start worsening for Zack?
Slide 6 - Open question
When did his parents see that he had a problem?
Slide 7 - Open question
What made Zack realise that he indeed had anorexia?
Slide 8 - Open question
Slide 9 - Video
How old was Ed when he developed anorexia?
What was the main reason Ed started to eat less?
When wast the start of his recovery?
What did Ed do when he was at university?
What project did he start?
Slide 10 - Slide
Finish reading A boy's struggle on page 15 (from line 98 further). Underline/ highlight the most important information in every paragraph. Look up words you don't know.
Some words in the text are left out. In the following slide you will see the options. Choose the right word for every gap.
Slide 11 - Slide
7: carefully closely finally
8: antiquity history news
9: amount number piece
10: condition disorder situation
11: dieting illness suicide
12: effort fight struggle
13: expensive fashionable important
Slide 12 - Slide
In what way did Donald Trump save Zack?
Slide 13 - Open question
What does Zack do to help other boys?
Slide 14 - Open question
What is the main problem for boys who suffer from anorexia?
Slide 15 - Open question
How is Zack able to put school work into perspective?