1.

VIDEO ACTIVITY: Sports: being Aron

Ralston by New York Times
GLOSSARY:
Canyon boulder (n): very strong rock
Epiphany (n): moment when you realize sth
Wilderness (n): place with nothing and nobody.
Notoriety (n): state of being famous for sth
(usually bad/ pejorative).
1) What was the headline related to Aron Ralston?
2) Why he was giving a speech for kids at school? What
had happened to him?
3) What have he learned with his experience?
4) What would you do in his place?

2. MOVIE ACTIVITY: 127 hours

1) Watch the interview again and describe Arons
personality.
2) Describe a scene using Past Simple, Present Perfect,
Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous.
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Present Perfect and Past Simple.

Look at Arons personal history.
Complete the questions and

answers.
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Facts
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Born in Ohio, United States.
11
Moved to Denver.
23
Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with
degrees in Mechanical Engineering and French.
27
Moved to Aspen, Colorado in order to persue a life of
climbing mountains.
28 Survived the Blue John Canyon accident.
29
Had a movie released about his life called 127
hours.
30
Climbed all of Colorados fourteeners 1 peaks.
34
Got married with Jessica.
35
Had a son.
1. Where was Aron Ralston born?
In __________________________________________________.
2. Which ___________________________________________ to?
Carnegie Mellon University.
3. How long_____________________________________climbing?
Since he______________________________________________.
4. What_____________________________________at University?
____________________________________________________.
5. How long _____________________________________married?
1 In mountaineering terminology in USA, a fourteener is a mountain
that meets or exceeds a elevation of 14,00 feet (7,270m) above the
sea level.

_______________________________________________34 years.
6.What _____________________________________________28?
_____________________________________________________.
7. When ___________________Colorados fourteeners
peaks?
___________________________________________________30.
8. Who____________________________________________with?
________________________________________________Jessica.
9. How many_____________________________________climbed?
____________________________________________________.
10. Has______________________________________exciting life?
_____________________________________________________.