Part One: Warm Up
Discuss the following questions with your partner(s).
- Now that you’ve had lessons on some safety issues, do you feel like you can give advice to others on how to deal with emergencies?
- What other, realistic dangers are there in the world?
Teacher Notes
Put students’ ideas on the board so they can be used in Part Four: Taking It Further.
Part Two: Speaking Practice
In Reading 8-1, you learned about fire safety procedures in a college, and in Listening 8-1, you learned about bear safety. Now, using Modals from Unit 4 and the First Conditional from Grammar 6-1, you will give safety advice to others and explain to them the consequences of not following this advice. There are a few grammatical structures we can use to give advice.
Structure
Advice
| You | must / have to + base verb |
Consequence
| If + present simple | , | will / won’t + base verb |
Example
- You must leave the fiery area and close the doors. If you don’t, you’ll choke on the smoke.
Structure
Advice
| You | should / ought to + base verb |
Consequence
| If + present simple | , | might / may + base verb* |
* In Grammar 6-1, the First Conditional only used the modal verb will. We can also use the modal verbs may and might to show that the consequence is not certain, but it is possible.
Examples
- You should remember to activate the fire alarm when you see a fire. If you forget, other people might not get the warning they need.
- During a fire, you ought to test doors before opening them by touching them with the back of your hand. You may find that one is hot, and then you'll know there’s a fire on the other side.
Part Three: Your Turn / Taking it Further
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