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Good Samaritan

Date: Jan 18 2008

Intro

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It’s hard to know how you’ll react in an emergency until one happens. Some people shut down and hide while others rise to the occasion and help.

But life is full of little emergencies where you can practice doing the right thing. Yesterday both Devan and Marni had to pull it together and be a little bit brave. Listen to them talk about it.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Marni

Devan

Marni: So I was riding the train last night and this crazy fight broke out and this guy broke a window and I see fighting and…first reaction…I jumped out of my seat and knocked on the door to alert the driver of the situation. It just was so shocking. I couldn’t believe I was seeing what I was seeing.

Devan: That’s so crazy because I was in a really similar situation yesterday where…

Marni: Really…

Devan: ...I was standing next to this guy and out of nowhere he punched in a window of a parked car and stole a bag out of it and ran.

Marni: Whoa! Right in front of you!

Devan: Right in front of me.

Marni: Wow, so did you…What did you do?

Devan: I was kind of in shock and it took me a minute, and then I realized that I needed to call 9-1-1. And so I called them and told them what happened and described the guy, told them which way he was going and stuff. But I’d never called 9-1-1 before, and I felt really good about doing it, you know? Because I was like, “Maybe now they’ll catch this guy.” But I wish I had reacted a little quicker because it took me a like a whole minute to process the situation.

Marni: Yeah. I think in those situations you’re not really…It’s, like, so shocking what you’re seeing but I think it’s good, you did the right thing and you called 9-1-1 and I think, you know, people when they see situations like that, they need to react and they need to call people on it. It’s not OK. You know, the saying, “being the good Samaritan,” you hear that but it’s true, you gotta do that because…This can’t happen! We live in a society here. People can’t be breaking windows in front of people, that’s not OK.

Devan: We have to be looking out for each other.

Marni: Exactly.

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Discussion

When Marni was riding the train last night a fight broke out. It was shocking, but she immediately ran up to get help from the driver.

Devan saw something something shocking yesterday too. Someone broke into a car right next to her. Unlike Marni, it took her a moment to know what to do. She called the police, but wishes she had called sooner.

Have you ever witnessed a small crime? How did you react? How do you think you would do in a big emergency? Have you ever experienced one before?

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danadanadana

Portugal

everyone should call 911 when another person's life is in danger

Ze_Pedro

Portugal

In my opinion, everybody should look out for themself. We live in a sellfish world, we should not hope that some stranger comes to your aid.

Ze_Pedro

Portugal

In my opinion, everybody should watch out for themself, because we live in a selfish world, not really in some good soul to aid.

jucastro

Portugal

I think this text is good, because it talk about a problem presents in our society…

hands_1411

Viet Nam

In Vietnam there are many samaritans, you can see them in the fairy tales.

For me, I've been in an emergency once. And the victim is myself. It happened when I was cycling to home and suddenly two guys appeared and stole my money.

I admit, I'm a kind of bastful, a bit slow and timid, up to now I haven't been able to tell what my reaction would be if I was in an emergency. Maybe it'll will take me more than one minutes. Anyway, I hope that time will make stronger and calmer.