Balloon Debate Intermediate Teens

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 Diego Maradona

Mahatma Gandhi Albert Einstein
Nelson Mandela Leonardo da Vinci
Charles Darwin Abraham Lincoln
William Beethoven
Shakespeare Vincent Van Gogh
Miguel de Cervantes JK Rowling
Lionel Messi Pep Guardiola
Thomas Edison Steve Jobs

Language
Conditionals Making Decisions
If_____ hadnt invented_____, _____ wouldnt Theres no way were throwing ______
have happened. overboard because______
If it hadnt been for ______, we wouldnt have Throwing _______ is out of the question
_______ now because________
Without _______, ______ wouldnt have _____ I think ________ is expendable.
What did _______ really do for us?
Examples:

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.

Without Shakespeare, we wouldnt have such a rich language.

If it hadnt been for Abraham Lincoln, the slaves wouldnt have been freed.