module5 unit5first aid reading

______ black and little or _______ _____ white ______ no pain and charred
Fill in the blanks( based on the 1st Para.)
1. Our body’s largest organ:_____ 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. ( R)
______ before a doctor can be found. injured
Often the illness or injury is not serious _________,
but there are other times when giving _________
first aid quickly will ____________. save one’s life
5. It gives you your sense _____ touch . _____ of _____
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IV. Read the passage and decide whether the first aid treatment is Right (R) or Wrong (W). 1. When someone is burned, you should place some ice on his wound. W 2. The function of cool water is to prevent and reduce swelling. R 3. We should put damp cloths on the second R degree burns. 4. We shouldn’t break the blisters, or they will make the wound infected. R
second degree
first degree
third degree
The three layers of skin:
The top layer The second layer The third layer
III. Detail reading: Filling in the blanks
What kind of first aid would you perform in this situation? Make a list of your ideas.
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Cool the area of skin; wash it under the cold running water. Cover the wound with bandage/ clean cloth. See a doctor if necessary.
3. Why do you think clothes and jewellery near burns should be removed? Because bacteria from the clothes and jewellery could infect the burns. 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.
Types Characteristics
First degree burns
Affect the top layer _____ of the skin.
Dry, Mildly Turn _____ red and painful white mildly when pressed _____ ______. swollen
Types Second degree burns
Characteristics extreme blisters _____ ly watery painful surface
affect _____, rough both the red and _______ top and swollen _______ the second layer of the skin. Third affect swollen; degree all three tissue _____ burns layers of can be the skin. seen.
blood
bloody adj. 出血的;血染的;血腥的 sprain vt. 扭伤 sprained adj. 扭伤的 choke vt. & vi. (使)噎住;(使)窒息
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Discuss what kind of first aid you should give in the following situations.
II. Scanning
1.What can skin do for our body ? 1.Act as a barrier against disease, ______________________________ ______________________________ poisons and the sun’s harmful rays. _______________________ 2.Keep you warm or cool. ____________________________ 3.Prevent you from losing water. _________________________ 4.Give you sense of touch.
Press the wound; Wrap bandage.
Pinch the nostrils Cool the injury and press with ice. upward. Fasten with Cool the bridge bandage. 6 of the nose.
Look at the picture on the left. What has happened? The girl has pulled boiling water onto herself. Can you guess what will happen to the girl? She will get bad burns.
2. We have three ______ of the skin. ______ layers
keeps warm cool 3. Your skin ______ you _____ or _____.
prevents 4. It ________ your body ______ from losing water ______ ______.
Ex 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）. 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.
Senior English Module 5
Unit 5
First Aid
Reading I
Warming up & Lead-in
What is first aid?
> First is the kind of_____ given to help
someone who suddenly ______ or gets falls ill
3. How many types of burns are there? What are they? 1.First degree burns. 2. Second degree burns 3.Third degree burns
Ex 2 Label these pictures with first, second and third degree burn.
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What situation can you think of that needs first aid?
a snake bite
bleeding
a sprained ankle
choking
a broken arm
a nosebleed
bleed
vi. 流血;失血
vt. 给(某人)放血
> bled bled n. 血;血统
5. Sometimes, we can put oil or ointments on burns to stop the infection. W 6. We should make sure the bandage won’t stick to the skin when it is used. R 7. If burns are on the face, we should make the victim sit up. R 8. Cold water can be used in three types of burns. W
2.You can get burnt by : ___________ hot liquids ___________ steam __________ fire __________ radiation _______________________ the sun _______________________ electricity or chemicals
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)
First aid for burns
I. Skim for general idea and then number them from 1 to 5. __ 3 __ 5 __ 1 __ 4 __ 2 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

Ex 4 Right or Wrong
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)