Extreme Situations: Reading

Extreme Situations: Reading

Complete the following sentences using:

cope with

search

survive

save

crash

reach

Read the article about what happened to the passengers of Flight 571 (p. 85) and answer the questions below.

Multiple Choice

What is the writer doing in this text?

• giving advice on how to survive

• explaining incredible past events

• showing that air travel is dangerous

• writing an imaginative story

Multiple Choice

Why were the three men disappointed?

• The view from the mountain was not very good,

• They didn't know how to return to the plane,

• They realised they had more problems,

• They had not brought enough warm clothes.

Multiple Choice

Vizintin returned to the crash site because

• he had lost hope.

• he didn't agree with Parrado's solution.

• he didn't want to walk any further.

• there wasn't enough food for three people.

Multiple Choice

Parrado and Canessa knew they were close to safety because

• they saw things that belonged to people.

• they discovered a river.

• they had been walking for ten days.

• there were flowers in the snow.

Multiple Choice

Which best describes what happened to the people on Flight 571?

• The survivors of the crash waited for many weeks in the plane for someone to find and rescue them.

• Tragically, 29 people died when the plane they were travelling in crashed into a mountain in the Andes.

• In a terrible situation, and with no hope at all, the survivors found a way to save themselves.

• To stay warm in the freezing cold, they wore the clothes of the people who had died in the crash.

Open Ended

How do you react to the article about what happened to the passengers of Flight 571?

Poll

Do you think if there is more to the story than what the article has told us?

• Yes, there is more to the story.

• No, the article has told us everything about the incident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfBbDBnq7TY

Open Ended

So, what do you think? How do you react to the documentary about what happened to the passengers of Flight 571?

Open Ended

What would you do to survive in a similar predicament?

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