C unit 9 reading and writing

Write tense verbs that you’ve learnt... Unit 9: SurvivorsReading and writing Chairlift terror... II: While reading Chair Chairlift Operator Helicopter Coat The ground chair Chairlift ope

English

Write tense verbs that you’ve learnt

I: Warm up

-Look at the picture!

-What happened to

the boy?

Unit 9: Survivors

Reading and writing

Chairlift terror

1 Look at the picture and find these things Use a dictionary

to help you.

II: While reading

Chair Chairlift Operator Helicopter Coat

The ground

chair Chairlift

operator Helicopter

coat

The ground

II: While reading

2 Look quickly at the paragraphs

1 Who are the woman and the boy?

2 Where did the accident happen?

3 Did the boy fall?

Answers:

1 They are Fran Mansen and her son Luke.

2 In Dreamland theme park in Wellington, New Zealand.

3 No, he didn’t

II: While reading

3 Read the paragraphs Number them in the correct order Answer:

1 It was a normal

2 The chair moved out

3 Then suddenly the chairlift

4 People look

5 Everybody watched and waited

6 But Luke didn’t fall

III: Vocabulary file: Prepositions of movement

a Look at the diagrams

b Use the table Make a

sentence with each

preposition.

c Draw pictures of three of

your sentences Show them to

your partner Your partner

says the sentences

IV: Post reading

4 A TV reporter interviewed Fran

a Look at the questions and write Fran’s answers.

Answers:

1 He slipped from the chair because the chairlift stopped.

2 I grabbed his hand.

3 I tried to pull him back, but he was too heavy.

4 We were 20 metres above the ground.

5 Some people screamed Someone telephoned for a

helicopter, and some people hurried to put coats on the ground under Luke.

6 Yes, he did.

7 He climbed up to the chair and helped me hold Luke.

8 The helicopter lifted Luke onto the chair.

b Work with a partner Roleplay the interview.

V: Language focus: Past simple tense spelling

a Find the past tense of these verbs in the story.

Slipped grabbed

tried hurried

b What do you notice about the spelling?

VI: Consolidation

Can you retell the story?

HOMEWORK