Case Study: Thoughts about Drinking and Driving Task 1 Read the case study

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Case Study: Thoughts about Drinking and Driving

Task 1 Read the case study

On the last day of school in June, the teachers of Bright High School hosted a party for all the twelfth-grade graduates. Although the teachers did not supply alcohol to this group of underage drinkers, many of the students sneaked alcohol into the party. One such student was Anna Kofski, who had five drinks.

Anna parents gave her the car that day so that she can drive some of her friends’ home from the party. Anna’s parents had often told her never to drink and drive or to get into a car with a driver who had been drinking. They told her to call anytime she needed a ride in such a situation.

Before leaving the party, Anna thought about calling her parents but decided against it because both her parents were working at the time and she did not want to be a nuisance. So Anna, despite the refusal of one of her friends to get into the car, drove home with two passengers.

En route, she turned onto a street and drove on the wrong side of the road, causing the driver of a school bus to lose control of the bus while trying to avoid Anna’s car. The bus flew down an embankment and the accident resulted in the death of all 25 passengers, who were young middle-school students, and the bus driver. Anna and her two passengers survived with no injuries.

Work in pairs and discuss the task of the following questions:

1) What is the structure of this case study?

2) How many paragraphs are used in it? What each paragraph represent?

3) How would you feel as a parent of one of the victims? What can a parent do to be an advocate for not drinking and driving?

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Story Writing Tips

Working in groups, study each statement carefully and compare with your answers.

· PLAN your story.

· REVISE your story to correct mistakes.

· Give your story a title.

· Make sure you have at least 4 paragraphs.

· Paragraph 1 – background information.

· Paragraphs 2 and 3 the main part of the story.

· Paragraph 4 – EITHER the climax or key moment of the story OR what happened after the climax.

· Don't change the words you are given at all.

· Read the words you are given carefully. Sometimes you can choose whether to start or finish with the words. At other times you have no choice.

· Use past continuous for background information.

For example – It was raining heavily as we left the house….

· Use past perfect before the main events of the story.

For example – … but Anne had kindly lent me her umbrella.

· Use simple past for the main events. There wasn't a single person on the street.

· Try to include some direct speech.

· You can use contraction (haven't, couldn't, etc.). But a story should not be as informal as an email to a friend, for example.

1.These case studies provide complete information about a serious car accident.

how the crime took place and how many people were injured in the car accident.

2.it uses 4 paragraphs. Each paragraph helps to make the information clearer. Each paragraph represents the duration of the event. Evidence was provided that other people were injured as a result of Anna’s arbitrariness, 26 people were killed, and Anna’s car and bus crashed.

3.When I was the parent of one of the victims, I would have asked Anna to take action in court. I didn't know how I would have felt if my young child had died in a car accident. that ir pain.

The child follows the example of the parents. The father shows the upbringing of the mother everywhere. He does what he sees in the bird's nest. prevents walking down the road.

My Paragraph.

"My sixteenth birthday".

On my sixteenth birthday my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins surprised me by coming to my house to help me celebrate.

At the beginning of the day all of us went to bowling.I picked a shiny, smooth hot red ball that looked like a giant gumball when it rolled towards the pin.Bon had the highest score for most of the game.But I beat him in the last frame by getting two strikes in a rowl.

At the and of the way everyone went back to my house and I opened my birthday presents.I lore open packages with slippery wrapping papper covered in balloons and pupples while Dad look pictures.My biggest surprise was a blue Nokia call phone from my Mom and Dad!

My sixteens birthday was one of my happiest day of my life and I will never forget it.