Taking Chances

It's time for a new class and a new task! At the moment, Felicity is teaching a pre-advanced English class. Say hello to the students:

Malak, Khalood and Mohammed from Saudi Arabia
Flavia from Italy
Mahsa from Iran
Wook, Chris and Jungwoo from South Korea
Palm from Thailand

Felicity and her class have been looking at how to survive in dangerous situations. The language they looked at was to do with chances. For example:

"you don't have a cat in hell's chance"
"you've got a good chance"
"you've got a 50-50 chance"

They also looked at the more functional language you'd use to judge how risky a situation might be. For example:

"it's a good idea to..."
"it's not a clever idea to..."
"it's a bad idea to..."
"don't even think about doing..."

After practising this language for a couple of days, the class had to think of a dangerous situation and describe it in writing. The piece of writing had to set the scene and give three options for survival.

The class then read each others writing and chose what they thought was the best option for survival. Finally the story writer revealed which was the correct option and why.

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See if you can work out the correct answer to Khalood and Wook's scenario below:

You are on the way home crossing the desert with your family; you have lost your way, and direction. Your GPS satellite navigation doesn’t work properly also you don’t have any food and you have only a small amount of water.

Do you -

1. Stay in the car and wait in a shady shelter where you can avoid the sunshine and drink all of your water as quickly as possible.
2. Leave the car and search for some help.
3. Sit in the shade of the car and drink your water slowly.

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Now have a look at Jungwoo and Malak's scenario:

You’re a father or mother of 3 children, you’re on a big ship with 500 people, the ship is heading directly for a huge iceberg and the ship is about to crash into the iceberg and there are only three escape boats which can only carry a maximum of 100 people.

Do you -

1. Just stay calm where you were and wait for a security guard to rescue you.
2. Wait in a line in order to get on an escape boat.
3. Use your Louis Vuitton bag to float on the water and wait for rescue.

In both cases, what would you do....?