Unit 7 Kids on the Track

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Unit 7Kids on the Track
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Pre-reading

• No one wants to be faced with an emergency.But
  when an emergent situation presents itself,
  which it will, you will want to be prepared and
  take action immediately.
• How to behave properly in these situations has
  consequently been an important lesson for us to
  learn.

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Pre-reading

• The best step we can take is to prevent them
  from happening. Always keep in mind Prevention
  is better than cure.
• If emergency occurs, we need to be perfectly calm
  and collected, in other words we need to have
  the presence of mind

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What qualities shall we display in case of
emergency?

• Calmness/keep ones composure/keep cool/ presence
  of mind
• Courage
• Bravery
• Full of hope
• Selflessness

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• Help oneself and others out of danger
• First aid (basic medical treatment given to
  someone as soon as possible after they have been
  hurt in an accident or suddenly become ill)
• Employ correct and efficient ways to minimize or
  avoid casualties

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Emergency services

• the public organizations that take quick action
  to deal with emergencies esp. the fire brigade,
  the police, and the ambulance
• the telephone no. used for calling the police,
  fire or ambulance services in an emergency is 999
  in Britain and 911 in the US
• in China, we have110 for the police, 119 for the
  fire brigade and 120 for ambulance

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Pre-reading

• Disasters , natural or man-made, will impose
  serious threat to human lives or properties.
• Do you know how to do when there is lightning,
  a fire, or an earthquake ?

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Natural Disasters
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Earthquake
?? magnitude?? seismic zone ?? focus ??
seismic waves
Richter scale, (1-10) indicating the intensity of
an earthquake
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Safety Tips ( for an Earthquake )

• 1) If an earthquake is occurring the most
  important thing to do is to DROP and COVER. Drop
  and cover means to fall on to the floor and get
  under something for protection. During an
  earthquake, if you are indoors, it is very
  important to stay calm and take cover under a
  heavy object.

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Safety Tips ( for an Earthquake)

• 2) If you are outdoors, stay as far away from
  buildings as possible.
• 3) Stay away from glass or anything that could
  fall.
• 4) Be prepared for aftershocks after the initial
  earthquake has ended. Aftershocks are follow-up
  earthquakes. They are smaller than the first one,
  but still are very dangerous.

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Safety Tips ( for lightning)

• During a storm stay indoors, however if you are
  caught outside in a severe storm, never stand
  under any tall objects such as trees.
• When outdoors, It is better to lie down in an
  open field away from any surrounding tall
  objects.
• Avoid any large bodies of water since water
  conducts electricity.

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Safety Tips ( for lightning)

• Stay away from metal objects such as bicycles and
  tractors.
• Never play golf or go fishing during a storm. If
  your are outside playing any games with metal
  gear, be sure to take it off if a storm starts.

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Safety Tips ( for lightning)

• Do not use the telephone since lightning might
  strike the tall telephone poles.
• Avoid using any electrical equipment such as hair
  driers, electric razors, or microwave ovens etc.

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Fire
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Safety Tips ( for a fire)

• If your house caught a fire, you should
• 1) Get out of the house. Familiarize yourself
  with at least two exits from each room for
  example, one window and one door. Know where the
  exits are practice using them.

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• 2) Have a meeting place outside the house When a
  meeting placed is established, it is easier to
  count heads and unnecessary to wonder who is left
  inside.
• 3) Phone the fire department from a neighbors
  house or via your mobile (if you have one with
  you)
• 4) Never go back inside for any reason!

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Fire Safety Tips

• 5) Should you be caught in a smoke, CRAWL! Smoke
  rises, so stay near to the floor where the air is
  less toxic.

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Text Organization

• This essay is chronologically developed.
• It has three parts, with the first part about
  what went on before the event , the second part
  about the event itself and the last one about the
  consequences of the event.

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Text Organization

• Part One (Paras 1-13) Forgetting their mothers
  words, two kids went to play on the track. Just
  at this moment, a train approached.
• Para Two (Paras 14-31) Anthony, the conductor,
  risked his own life to rescue the two children.

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Text Organization

• Part Three (Paras. 32-35) A close bond is
  forged between Anthony and the family after the
  incident. They are now more like a family.

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Main idea Writing skills

• Main idea Anthony saved two children in a
  courageous deed.
• Rhetoric devices comparison contrast
• The use of specific words

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Stylistic analysis

• written in a plain and journalist style
• begin with a description of the background why
  the disaster would happen
• followed by a casual conversation between the
  engineer and the conductor

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• give a sharp contrast
• author employs short and simple
  sentences/parallel structures/ clauses in
  description (eg. Line 72)

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Consolidated Rail Corporation

• also known as Conrail , was formed on April 1,
  1976 as a federally-funded takeover of the major
  railroad companies in the Northeast, all of which
  were financially failing
• divided between Norfolk Southern Railway and
  CSX Transportation in 1999 with three terminal
  switching districts operated by successor Conrail
  Shared Assets Operations

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emergent urgent

• emergent/emerging starting to existarising
  casually or unexpectedly????????????eg.
  Western governments should be giving more aid to
  the emerging democracies of the Third World.
• emergent economies/marketsemergence n.
• eg. The emergence of small Japanese cars in the
  1970s challenged the US and European
  manufacturers.

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• urgent needing attention very soon, esp. before
  anything else, because sth. is important ??? ,???
  
• eg. He's got to sign that paper - will you tell
  him it's urgent?
• The most urgent thing in a fire is to make sure
  everyone is out of the building.
• Many people are in urgent need of food and water.
• She was speaking to him in an urgent voice.

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Emergency urgency

• emergency sth. dangerous or serious, which needs
  immediate action in order to avoid harmful
  results
• eg. The pilot was forced to make an emergency
  landing on Lake Geneva.
• room/landing/service/brake/state of

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• urgency n. a pressing necessity
• eg. It now is a matter of urgency that aid
  reaches the famine area.
• They departed hurriedly because of some great
  urgency in their affairs.
• the urgency of his need

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Words to learn

• trunk- 1) the covered place at the end of the car
  for storing things in (boot for BrE)
• eg. She was arrested for her ex-boyfriends body
  was discovered in the trunk of her car.

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• 2) the main part
• eg. the trunk of a tree, a person etc.
• The trunk of this tree is four meters
  thick.
• The athlete has a powerful trunk.

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struggle (line 259)

• struggle (with /to do) make efforts to do sth.
• eg. For all these years , he has been struggling
  with his marriage crisis.
• Hospital staff struggled to provide an
  emergency service throughout the power cut. (T)

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Grocery food or household goods
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Driveway a short private road which leads from a
public road to a house
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make ones way (line 19)

• make ones way move, its followed frequently by
  a preposition or adverb to indicate the place one
  goes to
• eg Because of arthritis my mother can only make
  her way around our house slowly.
• make can be replaced by such verbs
• as fight, elbow, push , edge etc. to describe how
  one moves .

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out of the way (line 23)

• out of the way away from, the opposite
  expression of in the way which means being an
  obstacle .
• eg The best thing you can do if you are near
  to a tornado is to get out of its way.
• I hold the belief that nothing can stand
  in the way of China s reunion.

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• out of the way dealt with disposed of/improper
  /extraordinary unusual
• eg. I'm so relieved that my midterm is out of the
  way. 
• There was something decidedly out of the way
  about her explanation.
• Such behavior was out of the way for him.

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• out-of-the-way remote from much-traveled,
  frequented, or populous regions secluded???
• eg. an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills

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Resume (Line 24)

• resume start again after a pause
• eg. She hopes to resume work after the baby is
  born.
• The rebels have resumed hostilities against
  government troops.
• Peace talks will resume tomorrow.

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• resume your seat/place/position go back to the
  seat, place, or position where you were before
• eg. Please resume your seats, as the performance
  will continue in two minutes.
• Cf. assume, presume, consume

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medium (line 26)

• medium average , being between the higher and
  lower point ???
• eg. a medium-sized man, a journey of medium
  length
• Cf intermediate being between two other related
  things ???
• eg. intermediate students of English, the
  athletes intermediate target

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Mess around (Line 28)

• mess around spend time doing unimportant or
  various things, without any particular purpose or
  plan
• eg. They spend their weekends messing around on
  their boat.
• My brother likes messing around with computers.

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Party animal

• a very sociable person who enjoys lively social
  activities, a sociable person who loves and goes
  to many parties

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flash (line 46)

• flash move very fast show sth. for a short
  time
• eg When we enjoy something, we usually have a
  feeling that time flashes by.
• At the entrance, the female journalist
  simply flashed her entry card.
• Twenty years flashed by and we are all
  grown up.

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tear (Line 71 87)

• tear 1) pull apart into pieces
• eg. He flew into a rage and tore the paper into
  two.
• I tore a page from my notebook.
• 2) move somewhere quickly
• eg. The sports car tore down the street and
  through the intersection.
• He went tearing along the road after the
  bus.

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internal (line 91)

• internal existing or happening inside
• eg The parent company ???so far has refused to
  involve itself in a dispute which it regards as
  being internal to its subsidiary???.
• He died later in hospital because the
  bullet has passed through several internal organs.

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shelter (line 102)

• shelter (from) protect
• eg The trees sheltered the pedestrians from the
  sudden rain.
• The disabled couple struggled to shelter
  their child from any trouble.
• She was accused of sheltering a murderer. (T)
• ?????????

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Thinking about it

• Anthony is sure a courageous person in this
  article, however being brave is not enough in
  times of emergency. What other qualities are
  necessary for a person to have in such a
  situation?
• Mark Twain said , Courage is resistance to fear,
  mastery of fear, not absence of fear. How do you
  see this statement?
• ????????,??????,?????

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Writing assignment

• The Hero in My Mind
• Your composition should be in no less than 150
  words.
• You should cover the following aspects
• Who is the hero in your mind?
• Why do he/she becomes your hero? What do they do
  in times of emergency?
• What influence does he/she have on you?