For EFL / ESL students. Practice 1st conditional and instructions

1. Air New Zealand All Blacks Flight
Safety Video
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2. Air New Zealand All Blacks Flight
Safety Video
You are going to
1) Discuss flying and air safety procedures
2) Watch a flight safety video and do some comprehension
activities
3) Look at and practise the following grammar points;
a) the zero conditional with an imperative
b) "should" and "were to" in conditionals to express
improbability eg "If something should / were to happen..."
c) language for advice, instructions and obligation
4) Write an instruction / advice leaflet
5) Adapt your leaflet into a powerpoint presentation or film
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3. Discuss
How often do you fly?
Do you pay attention to the flight safety demonstrations?
Do you know what to do in an emergency?
Make a note of any vocabulary you need to explain what to do. For
example; take off, land, exit, signs, seats, fasten, seat-belt, life-jacket,
oxygen mask, overhead compartments, evacuate
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4. Do you know..?
You are going to watch a flight safety video. How many of these
questions do you know the answers to?
1. Where should you store your baggage?
2. What should you do if the seat-belt sign is switched on?
3. If an oxygen mask should drop down in front of you, what would you do?
4. What should you make sure of before you help anyone?
5. If an emergency were to happen during take-off or landing, what should
you do?
6. How do you use the life-jacket?
7. Where can you smoke?
8. How will you find the exit if there is no light?
9. What should you count?
10. What should you do with your mobile phone?
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5. Watch the video to check your
answers
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6. Answers
1) In the overhead compartments or tucked under the seat.
2) Nip back into a seat and fasten your seat belt.
3) Pull down on the mask, place over the nose and mouth and tighten by
pulling the elastic on both sides
4) Make sure you’ve got your mask on
5) Place your hands on your head with elbows on the outside of your
thighs, and feel flat on the floor.
6) Rip it out of the bag and put it over your head. Then clip the straps
together and tighten. The red tab inflates the life jacket
7) You can’t
8) The escape path lighting will lead you to the exit
9) Count the number of rows to the exit
10) They mustn’t be used in flight unless you’ve switched them to flightmode.
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7. How much can you remember?
Complete the sentences.
A. Even if you fly with us often, please keep your eyes on the briefing.
B. Make sure all your baggage is stored away…
C. Whether you’re in the front row or the back…
D. We recommend you keep your seat-belt fastened throughout the
flight, but…
E. If the seat-belt sign is switched on…
F. If an oxygen mask should drop down in front of you…
G. If there are young ones around you…
H. If an emergency were to happen during take-off or landing…
I. If you find yourself needing to smoke on this flight…
J. If you need to find your way out even if it’s All Black…
K. Should we need to evacuate…
L. Mobile phones can interfere with aircraft systems and mustn’t be
used in flight unless...
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8. Answers 1
A. Even if you fly with us often, please keep your eyes on the briefing.
B. Make sure all your baggage is stored away in the overhead compartments.
Or tucked under the seat in front of you
C. Whether you’re in the front row or the back, all passengers must keep an
eye on the lighted signs and follow crew instructions
D. We recommend you keep your seat-belt fastened throughout the flight, but
if you need to get up to stretch your hammies, undo the seat-belt by lifting
the flap.
E. If the seat-belt sign is switched on, nip back into a seat and fasten your
seat belt.
F. If an oxygen mask should drop down in front of you, don’t stop to ask why.
Continues…
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9. Answers 2
G. If there are young ones around you, make sure you’ve got your mask on
before helping them out
H. If an emergency were to happen during take-off or landing, place your
hands on your head with elbows on the outside of your thighs, and feel flat
on the floor.
I. If you find yourself needing to smoke on this flight, consider yourself
dropped.
J. If you need to find your way out, even if it’s All Black, the escape path
lighting will lead you to the exit.
K. Should we need to evacuate, support others around you who require help.
L. Mobile phones can interfere with aircraft systems and mustn’t be used in
flight unless you’ve switched them to flight-mode.
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10. Discuss Grammar
1. What do these phrases have in common?
2. What's the difference between them?
A) If an oxygen mask drops down in front of you, use it to breathe.
B) If an oxygen mask were to drop down in front of you, use it to
breathe.
C) If an oxygen mask should drop down in front of you, use it to
breathe.
D) Should an oxygen mask drop down in front of you, use it to
breathe.
3. Which 3 are the most unlikely?
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11. Answers
Answers
1. They are conditional phrases with an imperative
2. The first part of the sentence suggests how probable the event is
3. 2B, C and D.
In C "should" is used here to express that something is very unlikely to
happen.
In B "were to" expresses that something is hypothetical.
In D "should" replaces "if"
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12. Practice
Practise If + "were to... " http://
www.englishpage.com/conditional/wereto.html
http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional11.htm
Conditionals - Alternative forms
http://esl.about.com/cs/advanced/a/gr_cond_alt_2.htm
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13. Writing
Use the information from the video to write a flight safety advice leaflet.
or
Write a leaflet advising people what to do in an emergency
For example - A fire
Does your school or college have fire drills?
Do you know what to do and where to go if there was a fire?
Use some of the language from the video
If the alarm were to ring...
If the alarm should ring...
Should the alarm ring...
Make sure you...
All students must...
We recommend (that) you + verb...
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14. Speaking
Turn your leaflet from part 4 into a presentation or film.
Make a powerpoint presentation
or
direct and act in an instructional film telling people what to do in
an emergency
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15. Sporting vocabulary
This Air New Zealand video features the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby
team.
There are many sporting expressions in the video. Read the transcript
here
http://lybio.net/air-new-zealand-crazy-about-rugby-safety-video/travel-events/
or watch the video again
How many can you find?
Make a note of any other vocabulary in the film that you find useful
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16. Answers
Answers = kick off, team talk, warm up, the front row, dropped,
All Black
More air safety videos http://www.carhire.org
/blog/funny-flight-safety-videos
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