lesson 4/2017 »

6 Minute English: Driving

film: Marcela’s Tale

film: Spencer’s Big Date

students book: pages: 62, 63

the Guardian: the solar-powered town

practise

film: Marcela's Tale

While you watch

1. What does linger mean?

2. Where was Marcela from?

3. Why did she move?

4. What was the postcard about?

5. What does she do in response?

6. What is she drawn to? Why?

7. What do the women argue about?

8. What does Aliyah think is in the package?

9. What creates the ceasefire?

10. How does the film end?

11. This is how the u______ works. Sometimes a l________ duck finds another l_______ duck and they find the most c__________ gift.

1. Can you remember your last "blessing in disguise"?

2. How do you manage to pick someone up when they're feeling "down in the dumps"?

film: Spencer's Big Date

While you watch

1. What does Spencer suggest?

2. What does Spencer say about Dulles?

3. What does Pam suggest?

4. What phrase means you want everything? To want the f_____ p________.

5. In what state does Spencer find Pam?

6. What happens when Spencer brings Pam home?

7. How long has Pam's boyfriend been dating her?

8. What does Pam's boyfriend suggest to Spencer?

After you watch

1. What's the last thing you did spontaneously?

2. What would make your bucketlist?

6 Minute

6 Minute English - Driving

autonomous cars

arguments against:
1. computer that controls the car might go wrong and make car accident
2. someone can take control on system
3. changing from automatic system to taking control themself might last to long

arguments for:
1. people make mistakes, most road crashes involve an human error
2. people who are behind the wheel might be drunk or tired or distracted or after using drugs
3. people often talk on their mobile when they drive
4. cars that have two possibility: you can turn on the autonomous system or simply you can put the button to override the computer and drive yourself
5. We've used this system yet, eg. in airplanes.

question
How many people across the words die every day from road accidents (on average)?

About 1.3 million people die every year from crash roads. That means the one person dies every 25 seconds. And that means that during our lesson die about 150 people, across the word, of course. But a bit interesting question is, where are they dying? In which country? And how many die per one hundred thousand people?
Wikipedia helps us to answer.
Traffic-related death rate - list of countries (Wikipedia)

The average rate is about 17 (%)
Africa: 26,6
Europe: 9,3

The rate (per 100,000 inh. per year) of some chosen Countries - examples:
The UK - 2,9
USA - 10,6
Ukraine - 13,5
Poland - 10,3
Germany - 4,3
France - 5,1
Canada - 6
Japan - 4,7
Libya - 73,4
Russia - 18,9
China - 18,8
Brazil - 23,4

What percentage of motorcyclists die from traffic accidents? And what about cyclist and pedestrians?
23% - motorcyclist
22% - pedestrians
5% - cyclists

How about among men and women?
Three out of four deaths occur among men.
men - 77%

discussion:
petrol head
backseat driver
How would you feel in a car like Google car? Without steering wheel and break pedals:)
The future for autonomous cars - it's an interesting idea to hire a car, you can drive yourself, for a fun:)

words I learnt from this 6 Minute:
autonomous
human error
behind the wheel
petrol head
flat out
backseat driver
override
right off the bat
driving seat

Questions, problems

how to pronounce:
thousand
death and deaths

there are two types of gear: which?