Balloon Debate Advanced

Adults

You are in a hot air balloon which is losing height rapidly and will soon
crash because it is overweight. You are travelling with a group of school
children who will grow up to be very famous. You have to decide which 7
to throw over the side; if the balloon crashes you will all die. The
passengers are:

Mother Teresa

Mao Tse-tung

Diego
Maradona

Albert Einstein

Mahatma
Gandhi

Leonardo da
Vinci

Florence
Nightingale

Abraham
Lincoln

Beethoven

Vincent Van
Gogh

Jane Austen

Steve Jobs

Nelson Mandela

Mikael
Gorbachev

Charles Darwin

William
Shakespeare

Language
Conditionals
If_____ hadnt invented_____, _____
wouldnt have happened.
But
for
________
we
wouldnt

Making Decisions
Theres no way were throwing ______
overboard because______
Throwing _______ is out of the question

have________.
If it hadnt been for ______, we wouldnt
have _______ now
Had it not been for _______, we wouldnt
have________.
Examples:

because________
I think ________ is expendable.
What did _______ really do for us?

If Charles Darwin hadnt discovered evolution, society wouldnt have developed

like it has.
If it hadnt been for Gandhi, India would still be a British colony.
But for Shakespeare, we wouldnt have such a rich language.
Had it now been for Abraham Lincoln, the slaves wouldnt have been freed.