Unit 9 A CRITICAL THINKING: MAKING DIFFICULT DECISIONS


A risk-benefit analysis can be helpful when we need to make difficult or complicated decisions. This means listing the risks involved in doing something and assessing how likely they are to happen, then doing the same for the benefits.


1 9.4 Listen to two college friends. Abed is trying to persuade Wang Yong to do a bungee


jump for charity. Complete the risk-benefit analysis chart that Wang Yong drew up after the conversation.


Risk Certain


Possible Unlikely


B COLLABORATION: COOPERATION AND TRUST


The Prisoner’s Dilemma (page 129) illustrates that we can achieve the best result by cooperating with others and making compromises. There are many situations in which similar dilemmas arise.


1 Read the situation below, then discuss the questions about it in groups.


a In what way is this situation similar to The Prisoner’s Dilemma? b In what ways is it different? c Which side is most likely to refuse to cooperate, and why? d What is the likely result if either side refuses to cooperate? e What compromises could each side offer if they agree to negotiate? f What is the best result that can be achieved if both sides cooperate?


On the planet Zug, all energy is generated by burning a special rock called ‘zoom’. There are four countries on Zug – Zuga, Zugab, Zugac and Zugad. For centuries, Zuga, Zugab and Zugac had plentiful supplies of zoom, which they burnt to heat their houses and fuel their factories. These three countries became rich by selling products to each other and to Zugad, but now their supplies of zoom are running out.


Thirty years ago, Zugad discovered zoom deposits in the north of the country and since then has gone from poverty to wealth by selling zoom to the other three countries and building zoom-powered factories to make products that they sell to ZABC (the economic alliance of Zuga, Zugab and Zugac). Zugad has 70% of the total zoom deposits.


An international committee has discovered that there is now only enough zoom left on the planet to last for another 25 years at current rates of planetary consumption. All countries must agree to cut their zoom use dramatically in order to buy time for scientists to research and develop alternative sources of energy. ZABC invites Zugad to talks.


English for the 21st Century • Unit 9 133 I will feel very scared. Benefit


C21 skills


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