1. 高二必修 5 高二必修 5 Unit 5 First Aid Unit 5 First Aid Warming up and Reading 甘肃省积石山县积石中学；蒋卫亚

2. What kind of first aid would you perform in this situation? Make a list of your ideas.

3. Can you guess what has happened to the girl? How will her mother deal with the burn? Look at the picture on the left. What is on the cupboard? A kettle full of boiling She has bad burns.

4. Cool the area of skin. Wash it under the cold running water. Cover the wound with bandage / clean cloth. See a doctor if necessary.

6. Read the text quickly and complete the main idea of it. The text mainly introduces ______ types of burns and their characteristics as well as how to give _________________ when burns happen. first aid treatment three

7. Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks. Causes hot liquids, steam, fire, radiation, the sun, electricity or chemicals 1. ______First degree burns Second degree burns Third degree burns Burns Types

8. Charac teristics ◆ dry, red and mildly 2. ________ ◆ mildly painful ◆ turn 3. ______ when pressed ◆ rough, red and swollen ◆ blisters ◆ 4. ________ surface ◆ extremely painful ◆ black and white and charred ◆ swollen; often 5. ______ under them can be seen ◆ little or no pain if 6. _______ are damaged; may be pain around edge of injured area swollen white watery tissue nerves

9. First aid treatme nt ◆ Take off clothing and 7. _________ near the burn. ◆ Place 8. _____, clean, wet cloths on them until the pain decreases. ◆ Place cool cloths on the burned area repeatedly for 9. ____ _____ or so. ◆ Send the victim to the doctor or hospital at once. jewellery cool an hour

10. First aid treatment ◆ 10. _____ the burned area gently. ◆ Cover the burned area with a dry, clean 11. _________. ◆ Keep burned arms or legs 12. ________ than the heart. higher Dry bandage

11. Detail Information Fill in the blanks ( based on the 1st Para.) 1.Our body ’ s largest organ:_____ 2.We have ______ ______ of the skin. 3.Your skin ______ you _____ or _____. 4.It ________ your body ______ ______ ______. 5. It gives you your _____ _____ _____. skin three layers keeps warm cool prevents from losing water sense of touch

12. II. Choose the best answer. 1. In the text, burns are sorted according to the ______ of the skin burned. A. layer B. function C. type D. area

13. 2. When cooling burns, cool water is used to do the following EXCEPT ______. A. stop the burning process B. prevent the pain becoming unbearable C. reduce swelling D. prevent any blisters being broken

14. 1.In which order are these topics covered in the text? 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 3 1 4 2 5

15. 2. Label these pictures with first, second and third degree burn. second degree first degree third degree

16. The three layers of skin: The third layer The second layer The top layer

17. 3. Answer the questions. 1. Why should you put cold water on a burn? Because the cold water stops the burning process, stops the pain and prevents or reduces swelling( 肿 ).

18. 2. Why doesn’t a third degree burn hurt? Because in a third degree burn the nerves have been damaged. If there are no nerves, there is no pain.

19. 3. Why do you think clothes and jewellery near burns should be removed? Because bacteria from the clothes and jewellery could infect the burns.

20. 4. If someone has a third degree burn, why might you see tissue? Because all layers of the skin have been burnt showing the tissue underneath.

21. 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. ( ) W 4. Read the first aid treatments for these burns. If the treatment is right, write R. If it is wrong, write W and explain why.

22. 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. ( ) R

23. 3. Mrs Casey’s sleeve caught fire while she was cooking. Her arm looked terrible but it didn’t hurt. The skin was charred. Her husband took off her blouse and picked off bits of the blouse stuck to the burn. He then placed butter on the burn and covered it with a wet bandage. ( ) W

24. 4. 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

25. 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. If you have time, please know more about First Aid.

26. 1.Get more about first aid from the newspaper, magazine or the Internet. 2.Find out the important and difficult words and expressions to you and finish exercises on page 36.