Unit 1 Page 7 Lesson C3B

page 7.

3: listening and speaking:

a lucky escape

B: listen.

write answers to the questions you chose.

then share answers with a partner. can you remember the entire story together?

Consult other classmates if necessary.

this one time some friends and I were skiing up in Idaho

uh-huh

and a friend of mine fell 1200 feet down this mountain.

1200 feet?

Yeah

no kidding?

Yeah, he was just tumbling down looked like a rag doll. he was unconscious, bouncing off cliffs that dropped 10 15 feet at a time you know!

Oh!

he finally got down to the bottom and slid out about 300 yards on the snow.

uh-huh

and we all thought he was dead; like we were looking down at him. he wasn’t moving. so we had to ski down to him. I thought he was dead. so it was pretty scary. but anyway we got to him. he was unconscious. after a couple of minutes we kind of shook him and stuff and he woke up!

uh-huh

he was like coughing and he’s got two bumps on his head about this big! his one eye was closed shut

Wow, you know it’s a miracle he survived that

it is a miracle. and so um I stayed with him and two other guys skied down and a rescue team came about four hours later and took him out. flew him to the hospital in a helicopter.

no kidding!

yeah I mean it was a big deal it definitely gave me a new perspective on life

oh yeah! Wow, how did you guys get ahold of the rescue team?

these guys, our friends hiked down like they skied down we were pretty far into the park and high up

right

so they skied down and hiked out to um, to the trailhead got in their car and drove to town you know

Wow, the guy was really lucky

Yeah

do you still keep in touch with him?

I do, yeah

Really?

Yeah

is he still skiing or?

he’s… well not yet

no? how long ago was that? about a year or two ago?

no that was about three four months ago

oh really? now does he have any broken bones?

No, that was amazing. he didn’t break anything

you mean he didn’t have any he just had a few bumps on his head and nothing more?

yeah but well he was in the intensive care unit for about five days just being under observation. he hurt his neck but it was okay

Wow I can’t believe he didn’t break any limbs

yeah he was lucky; he’s fine now.