Debate 4 Intermediate

8/10/2019 Debate 4 Intermediate

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Scenario

An airplane flying to the US crashlanded in the Pacific Ocean.Now the airplane is floating on top of the water. There are ninesurvivors, most of whom have some small injuries. The crashsite is aout one and a half days of rowing from the nearest land.The survivors have a life raft with room for four persons.

!our group must ma"e a decision aout who those four personswill e.

The brief bios of the nine survivors

Tanja McFly (25). Tanja is a divorceewith a#$year$oldson.She is a waitress in a night clu. %or"ing night shifts, she is

forced to leave much of the parenting to her mother, who livesin the same trailer with them. She wanted to ecome a doctorut his son&s unplanned arrival and his divorce disrupted herplans. She suffered some internal injuries and complainsaout severe stomach ache.

Andy Kiss (34).Andy is your pilot and it was only due to here'pertise and composure in the emergency that the jet couldland smoothly and did not rea" apart. She is single and has

no children. She started her career in the US Navy. Shereceived training in survival techni(ues while there. She is in aad physical condition now, having suffered serious injuries toher left arm, which she can&t feel or move.

e!ele "a#os (2$).)e"eleis a sophomore *+ndyear student-at SOT /edical University in )udapest. 0e wants to moveac" to his native thiopia once he&s graduated from medicaluniversity. 0e spea"s perfect nglish than"s to his nglishlanguage education. 0e has very poor eye sight, ut hisglasses got ro"en in the crash. 0e has no children. 0e wasflying to the US to meet his American girlfriend in San 1iego.


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Tulu#a% &rni% ($5). Tuluga( elongs to a tiny 2nuit trie that spea"s acompletely different language than the rest of the 2nuits. There areonly aout 34 people left that spea" this language. %ith the trialpopulation sin"ing year y year there is a fear that this language willsoon go e'tinct. Tuluga(, whose name means 5raven,& was on her wayto settle in 6alifornia after marrying a linguist who was doing fieldwor" in her trie. She doesn&t spea" any nglish.

Fran! 'ith (5) 7ran" ecame a hippy in the late si'ties, ecause heloved the new ideals of anti$consumerism and free love.0e stilladheres to his principles and lives in a hippy community to this day. Allhe owns is a tiny moile home, an old chopper and a small piece ofland. 0e and his wife ma"e a living off of selling organic vegetales anddoing pottery. 0e has one grown$up child, who he hasn&t spo"en to for# years. 0e was flying to San 1iego to meet him again and to try andmend their ro"en relationship.

Me# *olans!i ($+). 8aised y her mother,/eg is an onlychild who is very hard to control. She has a full$timeaysitter, who she hates. She is ullying her classmatesin school, ut they are too scared to report her to theteachers. She demands that her mother uys heranything that she pleases. She li"es to watch T9 aoveall else.

A#ent Malcol (32).Agent /alcolm wor"s for the 62A&s anti$terrorism arm. 0is jo description includes listening towiretapped private phone calls in an effort to trace terroristactivities. A 0arvard graduate in psychology, he was assignedto 2ra( to (uestion US terror suspects in a secret prison wherethey are "ept on a special Presidential order without the"nowledge of the pulic. Agent /alcolm has two little children.

Marianne *olans!i (3,).She is /eg Polans"i&s mother. Sheseparated from her oyfriend, the father of her child, three yearsago. She has had several oyfriends since then. She is the head ofthe mar"eting department of a multinational company. She&s a chainsmo"er and a wor"aholic who focuses more on her jo than on herdaughter. She often gets home late, letting the aysitter ta"e careof /eg in the mornings and after school. Neither she or theaysitter can discipline /eg.

Thoas -aldorfAstoria (5). )orn into the rich %aldorf$Astoriafamily, he owns fifteen large factories on several continents,employing over ## thousand people. Amidst the ongoing crisis he

intends to moderni:e his company rather than do massive lay$offs.2f he dies, his company will e ta"en over y the oldest of his ;


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children, who wants to improve profitaility y ruthlessly laying off 34 thousandemployees, while cutting wages and enefits for the remaining ones.


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TA608&S NOTS

Ai/This e'ercise may enale student groups to discover how they wor" together< their strengths andhow they need to improve.

Tie re%uired/

Thirty minutes as an icerea"er, one to one and a half hours with deriefing, depending on thenumer of groups.

0esources/A room where small groups can form< flip chart or overhead projector plus pens.

*rocedure/= >ive the students the handout of the scenario and the rief io of the nine survivors and ma"eclear the 34 minute time limit imposed.

'plain that each group will have five minutes in which to report ac" and justify their decision.8eporting ac" is not essential ut gives the students the opportunity to e'plain their decisions. 2fthere is a large numer of groups, an alternative would e to record their choices on paper for

display.

3 6arry out a deriefing of how the group had functioned. The (uestions you as" will dependupon the learning you want the students to achieve from the e'ercise ut should encouragereflection on their e'perience.

'amples $ 0ow did they reach their decision?%hat roles did group memers adopt?1id they listen to each other?%hat have they learned aout the functions of a group?%hat would they do ne't time?

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