to weather the storm
comes from sailing, and it means to survive
dangerous sailing conditions. Metaphorically, it means coping with a potentially
dangerous or difficult situation.
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Students read the articles to check their predictions and then discuss how it
differed from their expectations in pairs.
Extension activity: vocabulary
While students are reading, write the following items on the board:
awful
,
appointment
,
tears
,
panic
,
transplant
,
39
,
donor
,
liver
,
operating room
,
begging
,
fainted
,
failure
,
brutally honest
,
honeymooned
,
like a maniac
,
split up
,
weather
any storm
. Students then close their books to retell the story to a partner, using
the words on the board (in the same order) to help them remember the details.
Check students’ understanding by asking how each word relates to the story.
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