Activity title: • Listening Comprehension and writing activity based on an interview with Jane Wyn Description: • Watching video of Jane Wyn where she discusses the connection between New Quay and Dylan Thomas, answering listening comprehension questions and writing a short article Year • Mid - Upper KS3 groups: Link to Literacy - Oracy LNF: Listening • respond positively and thoughtfully to new ideas…

Writing (Extension activity) Organising ideas and information Structure and organisation Year 8 • select and analyse and present ideas and information convincingly or objectively Year 9 • select, interpret and evaluate ideas and information convincingly or objectively

Writing accurately Language/Grammar/Punctuation/Spelling/Handwriting Year 8 • write with grammatical accuracy, varying the length and structure of sentences to make meaning clear • use the full range of punctuation accurately to clarify meaning • produce fluent and legible handwriting Year 9 • write simple, compound and complex sentences with grammatical accuracy in their writing • use the full range of punctuation accurately to clarify meaning • produce fluent and legible handwriting

Resources • Jane Wyn video required: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwmvB80CW6k • Learners’ resource – Interview with Jane Wyn (next page)

Suggested • Explain that Jane Wyn is Head of Tregaron Secondary School and teaches teaching English. sequence: • Hand out the resource and read through the comprehension questions to ensure understanding. • Watch the video as many times as is necessary for learners to answer the questions. • Discuss the answers.

Extension • Writing activity: Use Jane Wyn’s evidence in the video to write a short activities: article for a magazine about why people in New Quay think Under Milk Wood is based on the area, rather than Laugharne. You can search the web for photographs of New Quay and Laugharne to reinforce the evidence in the video.

LEARNER RESOURCE – Interview with Jane Wyn

Jane Wyn is Head of Tregaron Secondary School and teaches English. In the video, she discusses the connection between Dylan Thomas and New Quay.

Listening comprehension Watch the video and answer the following questions.

1. When did Dylan Thomas and Caitlin live in New Quay?

2. What did Dylan think of the area?

3. What important piece of work did Dylan start in New Quay, according to Jane Wyn?

4. What was a great inspiration for Dylan Thomas?

5. Which two characters from ‘Under Milk Wood’ are said to be from New Quay?

6. Who used to meet in the old lifeboat station?

7. What other evidence is there that ‘Under Milk Wood’ was based on New Quay?

8. What is sad about Dylan Thomas’s time in New Quay?

9. How did the Killicks provide the inspiration for the film ‘The Edge of Love’?

10. What was ironic about Dylan and Caitlin’s stay in Wales?