Unit 5A - The Survivor's Club

The survivor's club

American English File 4 Second Edition

The survivor's club

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life or death crises and emergencies

Have you ever been in a life or death emergency situation? What happened? How did you react?Check the questionnaire on page 44 with a partner and choose one answer for each question and explain why you chose it. If you would do something different, say what. You don't need to agree on the answer.

How to eat an elephant?

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The lessons of the survivors club

How would you eat an elephant if you had to? Does it sound appetizing?Read the article on page 45 and answer the questions on page 44 ex. b. After that, match the highlighted words and phrases in the text with their meaning on page 44. Now, let's find out if you would survive those emergency situations in the questionnaire.

How would you feel?

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life or death crises and emergencies

How would you feel if you had to confront any of the situations we've just discussed? a) if you were traveling on a plane, b) if you got lost in the mountains, c) if there was an intruder in your house. * crises is the plural of crisis, they are pronounced differently: crisis /ˈkraɪsɪs/, crises /ˈkraɪsiːz/

Feelings

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Vocabulary Bank

Go to the Vocabulary Bank on feelings on page 157 and complete all three activities in pairs.

Feelings

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how are these people feeling?

Look at the GIF and use one of the feelings you have just learned to describe how they feel.

Feelings

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how are these people feeling?

Look at the GIF and use one of the feelings you have just learned to describe how they feel.

Feelings

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how are these people feeling?

Look at the GIF and use one of the feelings you have just learned to describe how they feel.

Feelings

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how are these people feeling?

Look at the GIF and use one of the feelings you have just learned to describe how they feel.

Feelings

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how are these people feeling?

Look at the GIF and use one of the feelings you have just learned to describe how they feel.

Feelings

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how are these people feeling?

Look at the GIF and use one of the feelings you have just learned to describe how they feel.

Feelings

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how are these people feeling?

Look at the GIF and use one of the feelings you have just learned to describe how they feel.

Feelings

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how are these people feeling?

Look at the GIF and use one of the feelings you have just learned to describe how they feel.

Feelings

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how DID YOU FEEL?

Now work in pairs or small groups and each one of you will choose three of the feelings we've discussed today and tell your classmates about a time you felt that way (one situation for each feeling). Try to give as much detail as possible, and when you are the listener, ask for more information.

What would you do...

What would you do if there was a fire on campus while you're in class?What would you have done if you had been in New York on September 11th, 2001?

Conditional Sentences

All types

Zero conditional

first conditional

second conditional

If + present simple, present simpleWe use zero conditional to talk about general truths, scientific facts, things that do not normally change under certain conditions.If you heat water up to 100ºC, it boils.

third conditional

If + present simple, will + base form / can/may + base form / imperative We use first conditional to talk about possible (likely to happen) present or future situations and their consequences. If I finish my homework early, I'll help you with yours.

If + past simple, would/could/might + base form We use second conditional to talk about hypothetical situations in the present or future and their consequences. If I had more time, I would help you with your homework.

If + past perfect, would/could/might + have + past participle We use third conditional to talk about hypothetical situations in the past and their consequences. They are impossible to happen. If I had finished my homework earlier, I would have helped you with yours.