Week 10b: Friday, 14 November 2014

Posted by Zakumi on November 7, 2014

(1) Man Overboard: Role plays in 7 groups of 6 students.

Please read the content of the lesson before you comment.

(2) News by Tara: The students who didn't leave comments this week, will be asked first to tell us the news. Please sum the news report up in your own words (after you have hopefully listened to it several times). You know now where to find Tara's news (it is in the 'Learn English for learners' section under 'Listening').

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  • wu ting November 13, 2014 13:18
    T read the story.I suppose if let me choose,I will choose the amateur sailor and the millionnaire to die. Because I think that the amateur sailor is unconfident.This is his life attitude.peple should have optimistic attitude.I choose the millionnaire because others have many profits to peple.But he just can send his money to others.
    But my actual thoughts is everyone has the right to live.So I think we don not decide other lives.
    • Zakumi > wu ting November 13, 2014 14:32

      Wu Ting, if this was a real life situation and the lifeboat could not hold all the passengers (survivors), then some people had to be sacrificed to save others! True, all people have the right to life; just a pity that not all people believe that when we look around us and see how many people die daily at the hands of others. What a cruel world.

  • Xi Rui November 13, 2014 12:52
    As far as I am concerned,the sailor and the scientist should stay at the ship first.Because only the sailor knows how to navigate safely to dry land.That only make the sailor alive can make the others alive.In addition,only the scientist knows the formula of the medicine.If he is in the lifeboat,he will cure of many people who have cancer.Then the President of the United states of America and the widowed mother of twelve children should stay at the ship. I think the multi-millionaire and the amateur sailor should jump overboard.Because that they are sacrificed cannot lead to many serious results.
    http://alive.In/
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    • Zakumi > Xi Rui November 13, 2014 14:26

      Maybe you have a good choice, but I would kick the US President overboard ...! Oh, and definitely the rich man as I don't like them (not many of them know how to spend their fortunes ... and millions of people die every year of hunger).

  • Yaze Li November 13, 2014 12:12
    I have read the stroy of "Man Overboard".If I stayed the lifeboat I would myself to be a doctor,I would say:"If I can stay the boat,I can cure who survive but are already sick,we have gotten rid of the danger ,why not ensure yourself to be healthy and hold on your life? I can help you."
    What's more,If I can choose,I will leave the widowed mother of twelve chirldren.Although she had no skill to protect others,but for the twelve chirldren,she was so important.And the sailors can stay in the boat I think,they could instruct surviver safely dry land.I'm sorry I don't want to give up everyone,but the dangerous situation can't allowed,I will choose the pop star and scientist to be sacrificed.They have little ability to survive and help others,for example ,it's no use to show his research for the scientist,so...
    • Zakumi > Yaze Li November 13, 2014 12:50

      Thank you, Li Yaze, for familiarizing yourself with the lesson content. I can see you would be ready for tomorrow's class regardless of the character you have to represent in the different role plays tomorrow. I hope you would draw the doctor's name as it seems that you would have good motivation for saving the doctor's life! Or even the mother with the twelve children (I guess she is not Chinese ...)! And you would be ready for the news too, right?! :)

  • LuoYuanyuan November 13, 2014 9:54
    After read the content of "Man overboard",we know that there are two people have to jump overboard and ensure other members survive.From my perspective,the widowed mother and the child should be left in the lifeboard fristly,the amateur sailor and the world-famous pop star is more suitable for being sacrificed.because there is a ex-soilor can tell people how to survive in the sea and the amateur sailor can't bring them any help.And as for the pop star,there are many famous pop stars in the world.In fact, the pop star's death can't bring much negative infulence to the world.Such as Michael Jackson. And the star also don't know any survival skills.
    Discrimination shouldn't be happened.It is unresonable that Irish teachers are discriminated for their native language,their accent and so on.And not all of Irish teachers are alcoholics.So it is unfair for them that being dneied jobs in South korea. I hope the situation will be improved one day.

    http://world.In/
    • Zakumi > LuoYuanyuan November 13, 2014 12:42

      Thank you, Luo Yuanyuan, you've done exactly what I am expecting from the class! Students like you, make teachers' hearts beat more warmly! Glad you've looked at the different roles of the "players" as tomorrow each group would present the different identities to the class and then decide who will have to be sacrificed so that the lifeboat doesn't sink. You can be any of those 10 characters and now you are prepared.

      I agree with your views on the News item. But I personally don't think that was the real reason; I don't think they spoke the truth. However, it was still bad discrimination.

  • lu wen jun November 13, 2014 6:49
    After listening to the news,I found that my English listening has a small progress.And I believe that my English level will become higher. The news is about discrimination in South Korea.I am unexpected that the English was denied a job due to alcoholism.The world is so unfair that we maybe discriminated against based on our native language ,accent or age.I hope that our world can become more and more beautiful by our effort.
    • Zakumi > lu wen jun November 13, 2014 12:34

      Lu Wenjun, as I said to your classmate above, the News only makes up 5 minutes of the lesson, but you have only commented on that. What about the main lesson?! Remember next time, pse. Yes, I agree it was really unfair discrimination from the Koreans. But I don't believe that was the real reason for rejecting that teacher's application. I think they don't like the Irish accent as it is a heavy English accent and not always clear and understandable (for non-British speakers). And it could have been too sensitive to give that as the reason; so, they chose the one about alcoholism (which was also a bad excuse!).

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