Answer — Exercise 3
16 - Accident-prone·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Question
Work in pairs. Discuss what kinds of accidents might happen in the places / situations below. Which is the most risky? Use vocabulary from Exercise 1 to explain your ideas.
Answer
a beach
- drowning
- cut feet on rocks and bits of glass in the sand
a campsite
- hit by collapsing tent
- hit finger with hammer
cooking dinner
- burnt on cooker
- cut finger when chopping
cycling
- injuries from falling off bike or being knocked off by a car or lorry
- serious head injuries if not wearing helmet
doing DIY
- cut finger or hand with tools
- falling off a ladder
driving
- a crash or collision
- head or neck injuries
a football pitch
- break a leg or twist or sprain an ankle from a badly-timed tackle or turn
gardening
- cut finger from pruning the roses
- falling off a ladder
an ice rink
- falling on the ice and breaking an arm or leg
- cut by ice skate
jogging
- hit by car
- slipping and falling
a nightclub
- slip and hurt ankle from exuberant dancing
a mountain
- breaks
- sprains and cuts from slipping on mountain path