SWITCHED AT BIRTH
This is the video we have seen in class related to the article about the women who were switched at birth. Who needs a DNA test with this similarity?
Watch the news items, then answer the questions below:
True or
False?
1) They were switched at the hospital
where they were born
2) It was the midwife who made the
mistake
3) Dee Ann Angel and Kay Rene Reed went
to the same school
4) They lived 30 miles apart
5) Neither them nor their mothers had
any suspicions about their origins
minute 0:25
Make the
questions for these answers:
1) May 3rd 1953
2) In Oregon
3) After they were bathed
4) “This is not my baby”, one of the
mothers said
5) Dee Ann is blond and blue eyed. Her
family is dark haired and brown eyed
6) Dee Ann’s mother expressed her
doubts to others
7) Kay Rene’s brunette and her family
is blond
8) Kay Rene started to feel different
when she heard the rumors
9) No, they didn’t, both mothers died
without knowing the truth
minute 1:54
Finish
watching the news and answer these questions
1) Why is Dee Ann sad?
2) What does Kay Rene say about her
childhood memories, such as being kissed by their parents, goodnights, being
carried?
3) Where did Kay Rene live? What
connection does this fact have with Dee Ann?
4) What kind of peculiar thing did Kay
Rene use to do as a child? Who did this in her biological family?
5) What kind of feeling did Dee Ann
have from time to time?
6) Who knew about the doubts that Kay
Rene’s mum had about her daughter?
7) What didn’t exist at the time of
their birth so as to scientifically check their origin?
8) How were the mothers at the hospital
after giving birth?
9) Where did they all find out the
truth?
10) Who’s Juanita?
11) What did they say when Kay Rene and
Juanita met for the first time?
