At the end of this lesson, you will be

able to:
 understand someone talking
about surviving a dangerous
situation
 use a lexical set of
expressions with get correctly
 understand an article about
someone who survived
a dangerous experience

SURVIVAL
CLASS 1
 Before watching the VIDEO

Look at the video and pay attention to the following:

Engagement: What’s the man with the mic doing?

watching a What about 10.000 people?

video How strong was the main earthquake?

(Act. 1) How strong was the earthquake in Buffalo?

What does the professor say?

 1
5

Some vocabulary
• flood (water in homes or streets from rivers or too much rain)
• storm (strong winds and rain, sometimes with thunder and lightning)
• radiator (something that heats a room)
• uninhabitable (impossible to live in)
2
• ruined (destroyed, broken)
• Blizzard (a severe snowstorm with high winds.)

3
Let’s watch
it!

•AFTER THE VIDEO

•What do you think are the
worst kinds of natural
disasters? Why?

•Think of a natural disaster

that has happened in our
country? How effective was
the response of emergency
services?

•How well did people cope

with it?
Other natural
disasters
Practice: Act. 2
Where are these people?
What are they doing?
What might have just https://www.youtube.co
happened here? What m/watch?v=mwh1dt8SL
may happen next? 40

• DANGEROUS PLACES TO GO ON HOLIDAYS

• We are going to visit this place and you can
Listen again and organize 1 When did Abby go to
take ONLY 5 things to help you survive. the events South Africa?

• IT WAS GETTING LATE AND I WAS

LOST

2 What does Rob want to 3 How did Abby learn to

do first? surf?
Let’s check Robben Island is an island west of
Cape Town, South Africa. It is where
Answers
the civil rights activist, Nelson
1 When did Abby go to South Africa? (Last year.) Mandela, was held prisoner for 18
2 What does Rob want to do first? (Go to Cape Town, Robben years.
Island.)

3 How did Abby learn to surf? (At a surf school.)

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Vocabulary:
• “I got the time wrong, and I was late for the meeting”. (not
understand correctly)
• “I got to know Sandra really well when we went on holiday

expressions with GET together”. (know a person’s habits, likes and dislikes, etc.)
• Can you remember any phrase with GET from the
listening?
Let’s check the
answers

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Memory
game: Act. 3
• Get together with a partner
• Turn all the cards down
• Start picking them up to pair the
picture with the correct meaning
READING: Act 4.
• Before Reading
Go and read now: As you read, keep the
• Answer the following questions: following questions in mind:

Have you ever been scuba 1 How long was Robert

Hewitt in the water?
diving?
How Deep did you dive? 2 What problems did he
Would you like to go diving? have to overcome?
Why? Why not?
What are the dangers for
divers?
•After Reading
•Can you remember what these
numbers refer to? Write sentences
about each number. Then read the
text again and check your answers.
 1. He first made a 200-meter swim
from the shore.
Let’s see… 2. After three days, he was seven
kilometers out to sea.
3. On the fourth day, he started to
be affected by the lack of food
and water.
4. After three hours, no one had
come for him.
5. The underwater currents swept
him half a kilometer out to sea.
6. On the third day, he started to
think he might not survive.
Practice: narrative

Think of a problem you encountered when you

were last on holidays.

When did this happen?

What were you doing?
Had you done this before?
Had it been raining?
Let’s check!

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•2 c
•3 a
•4 b
More
narrative
Checking
time

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SPEAKING TIME
•Think of a dangerous situation that you
or someone you know was in, or it could
be something you know about from a
book or film. Make notes about the
questions.

•• Where and when did it take place?

•• Who was involved?
•• What was the scene or background to
the story?
•• What were the main events?
•• How did you / the person feel?
•• What was the outcome?