Intermediate 1 Unit 8

Unit 8
Emergency

Emergency
a. In the computer lesson, Mary left John a message about a road accident. Later on, John
phones Mary back and talks to her. Use the words below to complete their conversation.

accident • ambulance • bridge • broken • crossed • emergency room

nowhere • rushed • scared • side • speeding

John: Mary. Is that you? It’s John. How are you?

Mary: Oh, John. It’s good to hear from you. I think we were very lucky. As I told you in my
bridge
message, Mike and I were traveling over that (1) ________________ on Route 6 when
speeding
a big truck came (2) ________________ towards us. Imagine how we felt when it
crossed
(3) _____________ side
over on to our (4) ________________ of the road.
scared
John: You must have been so (5) ________________.
nowhere
Mary: Oh, I was! There was (6) ____________ for us to go. We couldn’t do anything to prevent
accident
the (7) ______________. The truck just crashed into the side of our car. Someone
ambulance
stopped at once and called an (8) ______________ rushed
and they (9) _____________ us to
the hospital.
emergency room
John: Are you still in the (10) _______________? Can I come and take you home?
Mary: Oh, yes, please. That would be great. Mike’s being kept in the hospital with a (11)
broken
_______________ leg, but I can’t wait to get home.

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b. Check your answers to activity a. with a partner and then practice the dialogue.

c. Below is a police report of Mary’s accident. Complete the report with the details from
activity a.

ACCIDENT REPORT
Case Number: 34675

Reporting Officer: Foster Jones

Road on which accident occurred:
bridge on Route 6
(1) ________________________
Date and time: 5/1, 16:45
First Driver: Mike WiIkins
2587 Southern Drive, L.A.
Tel: 907 5830
Type of vehicle: private car
Mary
Witness: (2) __________________ Wilkins
2587 Southern Drive, L.A.
Tel: 907-5830
Second Driver: Tom Crouch
3436 Lakeland Way, L.A.
Tel: 907-6744
Truck
Type of vehicle: (3) ______________________________
A broken leg
Injuries: (4) ____________________________________
big truck speeding and crossed over
Description of accident: (5)________________________
to the other side and crushed into the car
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________

d. Exchange reports with a partner. Do you agree with each other’s answers?

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e. Imagine you are the police officer who interviewed Mary after the accident. Which of the
following questions do you think the police officer asked her in order to complete the
report? Add three more questions of your own.

1. What is your name and address?

2. Was anyone hurt?
3. Can I take you to the hospital?
4. Where did the accident take place?
5. Can you tell me how the accident happened?
6. Were you scared?

before the accident what were they doing?

7. _______________________________________________________________
Did the driver have a drink before driving?
8. _______________________________________________________________
What is your relationship to the driver?
9. _______________________________________________________________

f. Write the conversation between Mary and the police officer.

Ma'am tell me what happened?

Police officer: ______________________________________________________

Mary: The truck got into our lane and crashed into us.
______________________________________________________
Are you all right?
Police officer: _____________________________________________________

Mary: Yes, but I'm still scared.

______________________________________________________
Do you have insurance?
Police officer: _____________________________________________________

Mary: Yes, I do
______________________________________________________
Then please call and I will go talk to the driver of the truck.
Police officer: _____________________________________________________

g. Practice your dialogue with a partner.

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Marge Has a Baby

a. Do you remember the story about Marge? Her baby was born in an ambulance on the way
to the hospital. Read the report of her experience as it was written in the local newspaper.
Complete the report with the names of the people involved.

Alex Winters (Marge’s husband) • Thomas Brown (the driver of the ambulance)
Marge Winters • Jonas Matthews (a medical student doing ambulance service)

SPECIAL DELIVERY IN AMBULANCE

Alex Winters
(1) ____________________________

“At least we had a car phone and

my husband could call an ambulance for help”,
Marge Winters
added (2)________________________.

“I knew that the baby was on its way," said

Thomas Brown
(3) ________________________, “so
I tried to get to the hospital as quickly as
possible. However , there wasn’t enough
time."

“I have never delivered a baby before,"

Jonas Matthews
admitted (4) ______________________,
Yesterday, a very special delivery took place
who was on ambulance duty, “but I’m very
in an ambulance. Jonas Matthews, a medical
pleased that my first delivery was in an
student, doing ambulance service, delivered
ambulance!”
his first baby. “My wife was due to have her
baby any time, but when we went for a ride After the baby was born, the ambulance
through the park, I wasn’t prepared for the arrived at the hospital, where doctors checked
fact that the car might run out of gas," said the mother and baby, who are doing well.

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b. After taking Marge to the hospital, the ambulance was called to the scene of a road
accident. Match the sentences in the ambulance report to the pictures below.

A
Ambulance Report:
b 1. On arriving at the scene of the
accident at 7:55 a.m., we saw that
both a motorcycle and a car were
involved.
B
d 2. The first thing we did was to
check the two drivers.
e 3. We put the motorcyclist into
the ambulance and got ready
to take him to the emergency C
room.
a 4. Before we drove to the hospital,
we called for a second ambulance
to take the driver of the car to
the emergency room. D E
c 5. We arrived at the emergency
room at 8:25 a.m.

c. Write a short newspaper report of the accident as shown in activity b. Give your report a
headline and include quotations from the people involved.

Traffic accident
___________________________ (headline)
on the main avenue
Yesterday there was a serious accident on _____________________________.
We responded to the emergency because it was a serious accident.said
“____________________________________,” Fred Smith, the ambulance driver who
was called to the accident.
the motorcyclist invaded lane
The accident happened because _____________________________________________.
it is the motorcyclist's fault
“___________________________________________,” said Jim Cook, the motorcyclist
emergency to the hospital
who was injured. Both drivers were taken to ____________________________.
are injured but not mortally wounded
“___________________________________________,” said the doctor who treated them.

d. Exchange your report with a partner. Read your report to the class.

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I Have to Go
a. Read what some people say about different obligations. Match what each person says to
the appropriate picture below. Then write what the other person in the picture says in
reply.
d 1. “I’m supposed to be on duty at the police station in an hour.”
b 2. “You’re supposed to signal when you turn left.”
c 3. “Where’s the ambulance? It’s supposed to be here by now.”
e 4. “Slow down! You’re not supposed to go over the speed limit!”
a 5. “I thought you were supposed to fill up with gas on the way home from work.”

________________________________________

B C

_______________________ _______________________

D E

_______________________ _______________________

b. Compare your answers with a partner.

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Clauses: Noun and Adverbial Clauses

a. Put the word in the following sentences in the correct order.

1. how / accident / the / me / can / tell / happened / you /

Can you tell me how the accident happened
______________________________________________________________ ?
2. driving / who / see / you / did / was / car / the / other /
Did you see who was driving the other car
______________________________________________________________ ?
3. do / any / why / you / speeding / have / was / idea / he /
Do you have any idea why he was speeding
______________________________________________________________ ?
4. you / morning / remember / your / house / when / left / you / do / this /
Do you remember when yo u left your house this morning
______________________________________________________________ ?
5. corner / know / the / signaled / turned / he / before / you / do / if / he /
Do you now if he signaled before he turned the corner
______________________________________________________________ ?
6. wonder / whether / services / the / informed / been / have / emergency / I /
I whonder whether the emergency services have been informed
______________________________________________________________ .

b. Complete the sentences with the words below and match them to the sentences from
activity a.

because • if • that • when • who • how

how
1. I have no idea ___________ the accident happened.
1
5 because
2. I think the accident happened ___________ the truck moved to the other

side of the road.

6 if
3. I don’t know ___________ anyone has called an ambulance, but I know that

the police are on their way.

3 that
4. I expect ___________ he was in a hurry to get home.

2 who
5. I didn’t see ___________ was driving the car. It all happened so fast.
when
4 6. I don’t really remember ___________ I left home this morning.

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c. Complete the sentences.

I saw a motorcycle
1. I was driving over the new bridge when ___________________________________.
try to slow down
2. As soon as I saw the motorcycle coming towards me, I ________________________.
the ambulance arrived
3. I waited at the scene of the accident until __________________________________.
explained
4. While the police officer was taking notes, I _________________________________.
He had an emergency
5. The driver was traveling over the speed limit because__________________________.
to respond to the emergency.
6. The police officer called an ambulance so that ______________________________.
he claimed to be well .
7. The paramedic decided to take the driver to the hospital although ________________
you keep riding like that.
8. I’ll only buy you a bicycle if ____________________________________________.

d. Imagine you are a witness at the scene of the car accident shown in the picture below.
Write a dialogue between yourself and the police officer who is called to the scene. Use the
words and phrases from activities a., b. and c. to help you.

Sir, tell me what happened?

Police officer: _______________________________________________________

Witness: the car invaded someone else's lane and they collided.
_______________________________________________________
Did you see if there was anything that caused you to drift into someone else's lane?
Police officer: _______________________________________________________

Witness: Yes. An animal crossed the road.

_______________________________________________________
I understand and you called the ambulance?
Police officer: _______________________________________________________

Witness: Yes, I did, so that they would come to the accident.

_______________________________________________________

e. Practice your dialogue with a partner.

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