Look back at the text and mark the sentences True or False.
Lesson: REFUGEES - SHOULD WE LET THEM IN OR KEEP THEM AWAY?
Level: Upper Intermediate - Advanced
Skills: Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing
Functions: summarizing, debating
1) Watch the video about a girl who prevented a plane taking off and answer the questions:
- Who is the girl?
- What is she doing on the plane?
- What is the point of her standing up?
- What is the passengers' reaction to her?
- What was the result of her protest?
- How did media and people reacted afterwards?
- What could be the consequences for the man and Ellen herself?
Now imagine that you were one of the passengers on that flight. How would you feel and which side would you take in the confrontation, if any?
Are there refugees in your country? How are they treated by government and local people?
2) Here's a text covering the event. Choose the best Headline. Explain your choice. Can you think of your own headline?
UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR REFUGEES IN SWEDEN
SWEDISH STUDENT BECOMES A SYMBOL OF PROTEST
UNFAIR SWEDISH POLICY PUTS LIVES OF REFUGEES AT RISK
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A lone student activist on board a plane at Gothenburg airport has prevented the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker from Sweden by refusing to sit down until the man was removed from the flight.
Her successful protest, footage of which spread rapidly across the internet, shines a spotlight on domestic opposition to Sweden’s tough asylum regime, at a time when immigration and asylum are topping the agenda of a general election campaign in which the far right is polling strongly.
"I hope that people start questioning how their country treats refugees, Elin Ersson, 21, told the Guardian in an interview. We need to start seeing the people whose lives our immigration are destroying."
The social work student at Gothenburg University bought a ticket for the flight from Gothenburg to Turkey on Monday morning, after she and other asylum activists found out that a young Afghan was due to be deported on it. In fact he was not on the plane but activists discovered another Afghan man in his 50s was onboard for deportation.
As she entered the plane, Ersson started to livestreamher protest in English. The video received more than 4m hits on Tuesday. Facing both sympathy and hostility from passengers, the footage shows Ersson struggling to keep her composure. " I don’t want a man’s life to be taken away just because you don’t want to miss your flight," she says. "I am not going to sit down until the person is off the plane. "
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Repeatedly told by a steward to stop filming, Ersson says: I am doing what I can to save a person’s life. As long as a person is standing up the pilot cannot take off. All I want to do is stop the deportation and then I will comply with the rules here. This is all perfectly legal and I have not committed a crime.
When an angry passenger, who appears to be English, tries to seize her phone, she tells him: "What is more important, a life, or your time? … I want him to get off the plane because he is not safe in Afghanistan. I am trying to change my country’s rules, I don’t like them. It is not right to send people to hell."
After a tense standoff, during which the airport authorities declined to use force to eject Ersson, passengers broke into applause when the asylum seeker was taken off the plane.
Ersson told the Guardian she had been volunteering with refugee groups for about a year. "People [in Afghanistan] are not sure of any safety," she said. "They don’t know if they’re going to live another day. As I’ve been working and meeting people from Afghanistan and heard their stories, I’ve been more and more in the belief that no one should be deported to Afghanistan because it’s not a safe place. The way that we are treating refugees right now, I think that we can do better, especially in a rich country like Sweden."
As the country heads towards a general election in September, Sweden’s centre-left coalition government is keen to keep up expulsions of asylum seekers whose applications have been turned down. If you get rejected, you have to go home – otherwise we will not have a proper migration system, the prime minister, Stefan Löfven, said last year after an Uzbek asylum seeker whose claim had been rejected drove a truck into shoppers in Stockholm, killing five people.
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The fates of the young man due to be deported on Monday, and the man who was on the plane, are unknown. A spokesperson for the Swedish Prison and Probation Service confirmed that the young man would be deported again, once transport was found.
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Ersson believes the young man was taken to Stockholm and put on a flight there already. "This is how deportations in Sweden work. The people involved know nothing and they are not allowed to reach out to their lawyers or family," she said. "My ultimate goal is to end deportations to Afghanistan."
Look back at the text and mark the sentences True or False.
1) Ellin claims to be fighting for the change in current deportation policy of Sweden
2) The protest was planned beforehand.
3) One of the passengers attacked Ellin.
4) She agreed to leave the plane in case the refugee was freed.
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