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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 illfalls ill gets injured 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 i

s 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. The text are divided into five parts. In which order are these topics In which order are these topics covered? Number them from 1 to 5.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

33

55

11

44

22

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 liquids steamfire radiation the sun electricity

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

_______.

TypesTypes & & characteristicscharacteristics of burnsof burns(based on para3&4)(based on para3&4)

1. Types1. Types 2. Characteristics2. Characteristics

layer

topsecond

all three

swollen

Rough

tissue

Mildly

Littleno

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 burns third 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 preciousLife is preciousLife is preciousLife is precious

We should care about others , and help people in an emergency.

Search as much information as you can about first aid

http://www. healthy. net/clinic/first aid/http://kids health. org/parent/first aid_ safe/