Lesson: G104

A car accident

Aim: To practice past simple/continuous and driving vocabulary

A. Identify the parts of the car:

bonnet tyre headlight bumper boot windscreen

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B. Discuss some possible causes of crashes with your teacher:

speeding using a mobile phone being drunk not looking or being distracted

C. Imagine you have been in a car accident. Complete the dialogue with the Police:

Police: What __________________ in the crash? (happen)

John: I was _________________ along (drive) South Street when a blue truck suddenly _______
(appear). It ______ (turn) out of a side road without looking. He _____(shoot) into my lane and
hit the front passenger side of my car. I think he ____________ (speed) because he was going
quite fast and didn’t stop at the junction. He just _________ (keep) on going. I _________ (can’t)
stop in time.

Police: And then what happened?

John: The man _________ (got) out of the truck. He was angry and __________ (blame) me.
 D. The Police have more questions. Unscramble them - then answer them:

 your /car /describe / you / can ? _______________

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 there /any / were / witnesses ?_________________

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 Whose/ was / it / fault ? ___________________________________________________________

 Did / get / you / the / insurance /details / from /other / driver / the ? ________________________

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 Have / insurance / you / got ? ______________________________________________________

E. Homework:

Choose an option from the following list. Write a report to about the accident. If not, tell
an accident you have seen. Use the past simple or the past progressive to describe what happened.

 At the traffic lights a car bumps into the rear of your car.

 You see an accident. A car hits a pedestrian on a zebra crossing. The driver was using a
mobile phone.

While you are tuning the radio, you hit a car which is backing out of a parking space in
Sainsbury’s car park.
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