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Unit 1
Survival instinct Reading; Writing; WordWise

Culture note SURVIVAL INSTINCT UNIT 1
Miriam Lancewood was born in The
Netherlands. After studying to be a
PE teacher, she travelled the world. How to
survive
survive
After meeting her now husband in survive
India, they hiked together through in the
the Himalayas and South East Asia, wilderness
wilderness
and ended up in New Zealand.
Miriam was working as a teacher
when they decided to move into Miriam Lancewood, from the Netherlands,
has a university degree, but she has no
the Southern Alps of New Zealand permanent address and no job. She doesn’t
with a tent and bow and arrow. have a car, or a computer or a mobile phone. WRITING
She doesn’t have a bed, or a clock or a mirror.
They lived for seven years in the And she’s very happy this way. A diary page about an
wilderness and completed the Te Miriam was living in New Zealand, in 2010, when experience
she began to ask herself: could she survive a terrible
Araroa Trail. Miriam’s book about natural disaster or a nuclear attack? Could she live 9 Imagine you are Miriam Lancewood.
Write a page of your diary. Write about:
their adventures, Woman in the without technology, electricity or other people? • the activities you’ve been doing
She decided that she didn’t have the necessary skills
Wilderness, became an international or experience, so she and her husband Peter set • how you felt while you were doing them
off to live in the wilderness. They left their cottage,
success and has been translated into filled two 85-litre backpacks with some possessions • what you’ve learned from them.
Dutch, French, German and Chinese. and took 12 buckets of food to last the winter. Write 150–200 words.
And they’ve never looked back.
Since then, they have lived right in the middle of the
wilderness of New Zealand’s North Island. They live
9 This exercise can be done for mostly in a tent or unequipped hut, with occasional WordWise:
returns to a town if their supplies are low –
Expressions with right
homework or in class. Ask Lancewood sometimes plays guitar and sings on the
street to earn a little money. Otherwise, they don’t
students to read the instructions, need anything from anyone. 10 Look at these sentences from the unit so far.
Complete them with phrases from the list.
and work in pairs or small groups In 2017, Miriam published a book – Woman in the
to discuss the topic and note Wilderness – which tells her story and recounts what right | right away | right in the middle
she learned about nature, other people and herself.
rightly or wrongly
down their answers. Monitor and Life in the wilderness taught her how to manage with 1 The boys knew
simple things, how to be alone, how to be bored,
help students with any questions. how to be afraid. She also talks about how she that they could only sit, wait and hope.
Students work individually to had to learn how to use a bow and arrow to hunt 2 Since 2010 they have lived
with, and the first time she killed a goat with one.
of the wilderness.
expand their notes into a diary Afterwards, she sat and cried because she had been 3 , the results of
page. In the next lesson, put brought up as a vegetarian. She and her husband ate their exams will determine what they do next.
the meat, because they did not want to waste a life
students back into the same and because it provided protein. Meat then became 4 But you survived, ?
part of their diet.
groups to read each other’s Miriam and her husband Peter met in India. They spent 11 Complete the sentences with an expression
with right.
diaries, then correct each other’s two months in the Himalayas, trekking and meeting 1 You’re the new girl at school,
mistakes and say what they like people who lived very simply ?
in the mountains. The lifestyle
about each other’s writing. attracted them both and 2 Look at the time! We’re late. We have to leave
once they were back in New .
Zealand, the idea of living in the 3 There’s going to be a new supermarket
wilderness became a possibility
10 With books closed, write the and eventually a reality. of town.
She does not for one moment
word right in the middle of the regret choosing this way of life. 4 we have to switch off our phones before ,
board. Ask students to think of ‘If people don’t agree with the class starts. workbook page 12
way I live, well, it doesn’t matter,
different meanings for right and does it?’ she says.
any words that could go before 17
or after right. Write any correct
answers on the board (e.g. right
away, too right, taste/feel right, Homework Activity idea Extension
turn out right, make something
right, a right angle, the right side, Students could do the writing for Ask students to work in pairs
to right a wrong, human rights, homework. If they have access and make a list of films, books or
equal rights, legal rights, etc.). to mobile devices, you could ask television dramas which deal with
1 right away 2 right in the middle them to write a diary page about people surviving in the wild. Regroup
3 Rightly or wrongly 4 right themselves and send it to another students into different groups for
member of the class. Ask them to them to compare their lists, discuss
11 During feedback, say the phrases check that all the points in the task what happens in each one and make
for students to repeat and check have been covered. Finally, ask recommendations.
pronunciation. students to write comments about
1 right 2 right away their partner’s diary entry. What
3 right in the middle interested/surprised them most?
4 Rightly or wrongly
Workbook p12
more
Workbook
Reading p14, Ex.1–4
Developing Writing p15
WordWise p12, Ex.5
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