Unit 5Unit 5

What is the definition of First AidFirst Aid ?

Key words:help, fall ill, injured, quicklyhelp, fall ill, injured, quickly

What isWhat is first aidfirst aid??

First aid is the first kind of help given to some one who suddenly falls ill or gets injured before a doctor can be found. Often the illness or injury is not serious, but there are other times when giving first aid quickly will save one’s life.

help , fall ill , injured , quickly

First aidFirst aid

Discuss in groups about the following pictures

a snake bite bleeding a sprained ankle

choking a broken arm a bloody nose

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blood n. 血液

bleed v. 流血

bandage n. 绷带

injury n. 伤害，损伤

wound n. 伤口

disinfector n. 消毒剂

ointment n. 药膏；油膏

sprain v. 扭伤

ankle n. 踝关节

sling n. 钩悬带

choke v. 窒息 , 哽住

slap v. 拍 , 掌击 , 拍击

pinch v. 捏

related wordsrelated words

Pre-reading

1. Look at the picture. What has happened?

2. What kind of first aid would you perform in this situation?

3. Have you or someone you know ever been burned? What happened? What did the burn look like? Did anyone perform first aid? What did he/she do?

1.1. Read the title title of the text and the small headingssmall headings within it, and tell “what will the article be about?”

2.2. In which orderorder 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 purpose of the skin

____ the symptoms of burns

____ how we get burns

33

55

11

44

22

First readingFirst reading

2. Read the text and label these pictures with : first degree burn, second degree burn and third degree burn.

A_____________B_____________ C_____________

second degree burnfirst degree burn

third degree burn

3. Finish Exercise 3 on P36.

Second reading

1. Why should you put cold water on a burn?

Because the cold water stops the burning process, stops the pain and reduces the swelling.

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.

Third ReadingAnswer the following

questions:

Answer the following questions:

3. Why do you think clothes and jewellery near burns should be removed?

Because bacteria form the clothes and jewellery could infect the burns.

4. If someone has a third degree burn, why might you see tissue?

Because all the layers of the skin have been burnt showing the tissue underneath.

1. The first kind of help you give someone who has had an accident. _______

2.A piece of clean material that you put on a wound. _________

3.When someone has something caught in their throat, we say that are _______.

4. A line of light from the sun of other radiation.__________

first aid

bandage

choking

ray

5. If an injury hurts a lot we say that it is _________.

6. A characteristic of a second degree burn, ball-like bleb. ________

7.You can slow bleeding by applying _______ to the wounds

8.The special car that takes someone to hospital. _________

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painful

blister

pressure

ambulance

Assignment

1. Find out the important words and expressions and learn by yourself.

2. Finish the exercises in Discovering useful words and expressions ( on P36-37).

3. Review the words and expressions in Unit 4. Tomorrow we will have a dictation.