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Unit 11
Emergency! Culture

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Nominate a student to give you the The Great Escape

name of a job. If they can’t think of a 30
job immediately, move on to the next
student. After a few examples, ask B
students to name a dangerous job
and continue around the class. Write 1 Look at the photos. What type of survival stories do they suggest?
these on the board and elicit reasons
why each of them is dangerous. 2 11.06 Read and listen to the article. Check your answers.
The Great ESCAPE
30 ! After many tragedies, there are always stories of people
The Great Escape who have shown an amazing ability to survive. Here are
two stories which remind us that miracles can happen.
1 You may like to put a copy of On 5 August, 2010, the San José copper and gold In June 2013,
mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile collapsed and
a rescue diver
the two photos up on the board 33 miners were trapped underground. The mine was swimming
before students open their books. had a poor safety record and there were fears that through the wreck
the missing men wouldn’t come out alive. A rescue of the tugboat
team immediately began drilling into the ground Jascon-4 when he
2 11.06 Tell students not to where it was thought the men might be. On Day got an enormous
worry about difficult vocabulary 17, when the drill was brought out of the ground, shock: a hand reached out and grabbed his leg.
The ship had sunk two and a half days earlier and
there was a note taped to it. In bright red letters it
at this stage as this will come read: ‘We are alive and well in the shelter, all 33 of was now lying 30 metres below the surface of the
up later. us.’ It was the news the whole country had been water. The diver, who was part of a team looking for
waiting for and the Chilean government promised
the bodies of the 13 crew members, hadn’t expected
The men in photo A escaped from to bring them out alive. For the next seven weeks, to find anyone alive. But one man had managed
a mine where they were trapped. rescue teams from all over the world worked to survive. Twenty-nine-year-old Harrison Okene
from Nigeria was the ship’s cook. When the ship got
together to drill a hole big enough to bring out
Rescue teams drilled a hole to get the men, who were waiting 700 metres below into trouble in rough seas and started turning over,
them out. the ground. It was a long, difficult and dangerous Okene found an air pocket and put his head in it.
Photo B represents a man who job, but on 13 October, more than a billion people As the ship sank towards the sea floor, he expected
the pocket to fill with water, but it didn’t. Despite the
around the world watched live on TV as the first
escaped from a ship that had sunk. of the miners was finally brought above ground. freezing water and having nothing to eat or drink,
He survived by waiting in an air pocket Twenty-four hours later, the last miner, number 33, Okene had enough air to breathe. There was nothing
he could do except wait. Sixty hours after the ship
was reunited with his family and friends.
until a rescue team could bring him to went down, Okene heard knocking and knew that
the surface. A rescue teams had entered the ship. He still wasn’t
safe, and a complicated plan was needed to bring
him slowly to the surface. Unfortunately, none of
3 Ask students to locate and circle the other crew members survived. But for one man,
the tragedy had ended with a miracle.
the numbers in the article. Point
out that the numbers may be in
word or numerical form and that
SPEAKING
one of the numbers refers to two 3 Read the article again. What do these numbers refer to? 4 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.
different things. 0 7 The number of weeks the miners were trapped 1 What do you think these people did while they were
waiting to be rescued?
1 The date in October when the underground. 2 These people had accidents at work. Do you think
miners were brought above ground. / 1 13 2 17 3 29 people should be rescued when they are doing
dangerous things for pleasure, for example, climbing
6 60
5 33
4 30
The number of crew members on the mountains? Why or why not?
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2 The number of days that had
passed before the rescue mission
received the miners’ note. Culture notes
3 The age of Harrison Okene, the In the twelve years before the San José copper mine collapse, there had been
ship’s cook. several accidents at the San José mine and eight people had died. The miners
4 The number of metres below the were found 17 days after the collapse. Their emergency supplies had just run
surface of the water where the ship out. It took another 52 days before all 33 were free. Almost all the miners were
was lying. in good physical condition but had lost an average of 8kg. When the mine first
5 The number of miners trapped collapsed, they had tried to reach the surface via escape ladders, but the mining
underground / rescued from the mine. company had not installed the ladders.
6 The number of hours that had The Jascon-4 tugboat capsized and sank off the Nigerian coast in late May 2013.
passed since the ship had gone down Lone survivor Harrison Okene spent sixty hours trapped in an air pocket at the
when Okene heard knocking.
front of the boat. As he had spent so long at pressure underwater, Mr Okene
4 At the end of the exercise, would have had a heart attack if he had been brought quickly to the surface.
listen to some of the students’ He had to be brought up slowly in a diving helmet and put into a decompression
ideas and encourage open class chamber. He thought he had been underwater for only twelve hours.
discussion.
Social Responsibilities
Understanding and discussing global issues – environmental, political, financial and social
Is aware of different global issues.
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