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Unit 11
Emergency! Culture; Writing
5 During feedback, focus on
pronunciation by saying the EMERGENCY! UNIT 11
words and asking students to 5 VOCABULARY There are seven highlighted words or phrases in the article. Match the words with these meanings.
repeat them. Encourage them to Write the words.
notice the silent ‘w’ in wreck. 1 a space where water doesn’t get in 5 amazing events that almost seems impossible
6 an instrument that makes a hole in the ground
2 the history of accidents at a place
1 air pocket 2 safety record 3 gone down in the water 7 what’s left of a car, ship, plane, etc. after a crash
3 sunk 4 tragedy 5 miracles 4 a terrible event that often kills many people
6 drill 7 wreck
WRITING
A story about a rescue
1 Ask students to quickly read the 1 INPUT Read the story. Answer the questions. 1 In March 2014, 14-year-old Za’Quan Clyburn
from North Carolina, USA, was rescued
story and answer the question: 1 Why did the boy and his friends walk across open land? 1 he got trapped in mud.
Why did the boy need to be 2 How long did the rescue take? 2 Za’Quan was walking home with some friends.
To save time, they walked across some open
rescued? (He got stuck in mud). 3 Why did he need to go to hospital? land 2 was being prepared for building.
4 How did his mother feel about the rescue?
They should ignore the spaces Za’Quan walked down a hill towards a large
pool of water. He thought the ground was solid
at this point and just focus 2 Complete the story with the words. 3 that he could walk across it, but it
on gist understanding. Check after | and | because | but was mud. He sank into it and couldn’t get out.
The mud went up to his chest and then almost
later | where | which
answers and make sure students to his chin.
understand mud. 3 ANALYSE The story has four paragraphs. Which of 3 One of his friends called 911. Firefighters
arrived and started to work to get Za’Quan out.
1 To save time and get home more them: It took 24 people about half an hour to free
him. Za’Quan was extremely cold and in shock,
quickly. a gives details about how the accident happened? and his legs were very painful 4 of the
b gives people’s reactions to the accident?
2 It took around half an hour. c gives a summary of the whole event? pressure of the mud. An ambulance took him
to hospital, 5
he was kept for two days.
3 Because he was cold, he was in d describes how the accident was dealt with? 4 One of the firefighters said, ‘The
shock and his legs were very painful 4 PRODUCE Think of a rescue that you know about or outcome could have been much worse,
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fortunately he came through it OK.’
because of the pressure of the mud. invent one. Write your story (200 words). Think about: The boy’s mother said 7 that she was
really grateful to the people who had worked
4 She was grateful to the people who • who was involved in the accident and the rescue. so hard and risked their lives to save her son.
• any special words that you will need to talk about the
had worked hard and put themselves accident. (Use a dictionary to help you.)
in danger to save her son. • how to organise the information into paragraphs.
• how to make the story dramatic.
2 Point out that these are linking
words, which are used to join
ideas together in a text.
1 after 2 which 3 and
4 because 5 where 6 but
7 later
3 Ask students to give examples
from the text to support their
answers.
a 2 b 4 c 1 d 3
4 The planning for this exercise
can be done in class and the
writing set for homework. Tell 109
students that their rescue story
can be true or made up. Students
should organise their writing by
following the plan in Exercise 3.
Homework
You could set the writing for
homework.
Activity idea Extension
On completion, ask pairs to swap
stories and read and evaluate each more
other’s writing on the basis of
content (How interesting was the Practice Extra
story?); organisation (Did the story Unit 11 Master it!
follow the organisation of the model
text?); and language (Did they use Workbook
a variety of linking words?). Developing Writing p105
Tests
Unit, extension and skills test 11
Unit 11 | Emergency! T109
