Li Mei

Warming up Pre-reading Reading

What is first aid? First aid is the kind of help given to someone who suddenly ___________ or _____________ before a doctor can be found. falls ill gets injured

What can you do to help? What has happened to them?

1.a snake bite B. The person bitten must get a doctor or go to hospital at once. It will help the doctor greatly if you can tell him what kind of snake it was, or describe the situation. A. Running back home,Speed is very important.

2. The best way to treat a sprained ankle is to: A. Put some ice on your ankle. B. Put a heating pad( 垫子 )around your ankle. C. Keep on walking and jumping.

3. If you get a nosebleed, gently let your head back to stop the bleeding. A. True B. False (It may lead the blood into the throat and easily cause choking.)

4. To treat a choke, you should make him /her spit by patting him/her on the back. A. True B. False

5. To treat a bleeding, you should put a bandage on the wound and apply pressure to reduce the bleeding. A. True B. False

6. To treat a broken arm, you: A. move the broken bone in no time. B. keep the arm still using a sling to support the broken arm

What sort of injuries the girl will have? What kind of first aid would her mother perform? Could you give her some advice? Pre-reading

Reading First Aid For Burns

The text are divided into five parts. In which order are these topics covered? Number them from 1 to 5. ____ the three types of burns ____ what to do if someone gets burned ____ the functions of the skin ____ the symptoms of burns ____ how we get burns Skimming:

1.What can skin do for our body? (Para1) ① ② ③ ④ 2. How can we get burnt?(Para2) Scanning Read para1 and 2 carefully and answer questions: give you sense of touch protect you against diseases, poisons and the sun’s harmful rays keep you warm or cool prevent you from losing water You can get burned by :______________, ______, ______, __________, __________, ___________ and _________. hot liquidssteam fireradiation the sunelectricity chemicals

First degree burns Affect the top______ of the skin. Dry, red and mildly ______. _______ painful. Turn white when ______. Second degree burns Affect both the ____ & the ______ layer. ________, red and swollen. Extremely painful. ________ watery surface Third degree burns Affect____ ________ layers of the skin. Swollen; ______can be seen. ______ or ____ pain. Black and white and _______. Types & characteristicsof burns Types & characteristics of burns (based on para3&4) 1. Types 2. Characteristics layer top second all three swollen Rough tissue Mildly Little no pressed Blisters charred

According to the form above, match these pictures with first degree burns, second degree burns and third degree burns. first degree burnssecond degree burnsthird degree burns

Read para5 carefully and do the “right” (R) or “wrong” (W) exercises 1.Sam knocked over a kettle full of boiling water onto his legs. His legs became red, swollen and covered with blisters. Sam broke the blisters and poured icy water from the fridge onto the skin. 2. While ironing clothes, Miss Good accidentally touched the iron. Her wrist blistered and became watery. It hurt a lot. She put her wrist under the cold water tap and then kept placing cool, clean, damp cloths on it until it was less painful. Then she went to see the doctor. W R

3. After an hour in the sun, Lily noticed her arms were red and hurt a bit. She went home and put them under cool running water. R

Group work: 1.why do we say it is important to learn some knowledge of first aid? 2.what will you do in an emergency?

Try our best to give them effective first aid if they are in danger. Life is precious We should care about others, and help people in an emergency.

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