B2 ( Listening + Vocabulary): Harvard University- What's the right thing to do?

PRE-LISTENING

Episode 01

March 3, 2011

Part 1 – The Moral Side of Murder
If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing, even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? That’s the hypothetical scenario Professor Michael Sandel uses to launch his course on moral reasoning

Key words:

1st hypothetical situation.

trolley car

to hurtle down

side track

steering Wheel

2nd hypothetical situation.

to careen into

to give somebody a shove.

Watch the video and follow the lecture.
1. What's the right thing to do?
2. What would you do?

Have you realised how he uses the Word SuPPose...+ subject+ verb (past tense).