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2021SP-ESL-0106-DL01 ESL - Adv. Reading Skills (ESL-0106-DL01) ONLINE Course Content ... M1: Reading Skill: Identifying Claims & Evidence

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This assignment gives you practice with Identifying Claims & Evidence. Click on the link to open the TED Talk "Danger of the Single Story" in a new tab.  Listen carefully to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for her central claim (the title gives you a clue) and the evidence she gives to support this claim. 

You will have to �ll in some of the vocabulary she uses and answer questions about her main idea and supporting examples. This assignment is worth 30 points.

This assignment is due by Thursday, January 28th.

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story

Right click on this link to open it in a new tab.

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I guess it is all about culture.

QUESTION 1

Looking at the website, what do you think this talk will be about? Make a guess before listening.

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A. Listen to the talk from the beginning and �ill in the missing words below starting at minute 13:44. (10 points) I've always felt that it is impossible to engage properly with a place or a person without engaging with

all of the stories of that place and that person. The  of the single story is

this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity di�cult. It

 how we are di�erent rather than how we are similar.

So what if before my Mexican trip, I had followed the immigration  from

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both sides, the U.S. and the Mexican? What if my mother had told us that Fide's family was poor and

hardworking? What if we had an African television network that broadcast

 African stories all over the world? What the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe calls "a balance of stories." What if my roommate knew about my Nigerian publisher, Muhtar Bakare, a remarkable man who left his job in a bank to follow his  and start a publishing house? Now, the conventional

 was that Nigerians don't read literature. He disagreed. He felt that people who

could read, would read, if you made literature a�ordable and available to them. Shortly after he published my �rst novel, I went to a TV station in Lagos to do an

, and a woman who worked there as a messenger came up to me and said,

"I really liked your novel. I didn't like the ending. Now, you must write a sequel, and this is what will happen ..." And she went on to tell me what to write in the sequel. I was not only charmed; I was very moved. Here was a woman, part of the ordinary masses of Nigerians, who were not supposed to be readers. She had not only read the book, but she had taken  of it and felt justi�ed in

telling me what to write in the sequel. Now, what if my roommate knew about my friend Funmi Iyanda, a fearless woman who hosts a TV show in Lagos, and is determined to tell the stories that we prefer to forget? What if my roommate knew about the heart  that was performed in the Lagos hospital last week?

What if my roommate knew about contemporary Nigerian music,  people

singing in English and Pidgin, and Igbo and Yoruba and Ijo, mixing in�uences from Jay-Z to Fela to Bob Marley to their grandfathers? What if my roommate knew about the female lawyer who recently went to court in Nigeria to challenge a ridiculous law that required women to get their husband's consent before renewing their passports? What if my roommate knew about Nollywood, full of  people making �lms

despite great technical odds, �lms so popular that they really are the best example of Nigerians consuming what they produce? What if my roommate knew about my wonderfully ambitious hair braider, who has just started her own business selling hair extensions? Or about the millions of other Nigerians who start businesses and sometimes fail, but continue to nurse ?

Every time I am home I am confronted with the usual sources of irritation for most Nigerians: our failed infrastructure, our failed government, but also by the incredible  of people

who thrive despite the government, rather than because of it. I teach writing workshops in Lagos every summer, and it is amazing to me how many people apply, how many people are eager to write, to tell stories. My Nigerian publisher and I have just started a non-pro�t called Fara�na Trust, and we have big

 of building libraries and refurbishing libraries that already exist and

providing books for state schools that don't have anything in their libraries, and also of  lots and lots of workshops, in reading and writing, for all the people who

are eager to tell our many stories.

Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to  and to

malign, but stories can also be used to   and to humanize. Stories can break

the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

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What is her claim? Restate it in your own words using a complete sentence. Do not repeat her words.

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QUESTION 4

What is one example she gives as evidence to support this claim? Write a sentence in your own words. Don't repeat her words.

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QUESTION 5

Do you agree or disagree with the speaker? Support your opinion with an example from your experience.

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QUESTION 6

Write �ive new words from her talk and guess their meaning. Example: 1. resilience (strength, perserverence)

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