1. Unit 5

2. What is the definition of First Aid ?
Warming up
What is the definition of First Aid ?
Key words:
help, fall ill, injured, quickly

3. First aid
What is first aid?
help , fall ill , injured , quickly
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.

4. Discuss in groups about the following pictures
a snake bite bleeding a sprained ankle 4
choking a broken arm a bloody nose

5. related words sprain v. 扭伤 blood n. 血液 bleed v. 流血 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
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

6. Pre-reading Pre-reading Look at the picture. What has happened?
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?
Pre-reading

7. Reading
First reading
1. Read the title of the text and the small headings within it, and tell “what will the article be about?”
2. 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 purpose of the skin
____ the symptoms of burns
____ how we get burns 3 5 1 4 2

8. Second reading
2. Read the text and label these pictures with : first degree burn, second degree burn and third degree burn.
A_____________
second degree burn
B_____________
first degree burn
C_____________
third degree burn
3. Finish Exercise 3 on P36.

9. Answer the following questions:
Third Reading
Answer the following questions:
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.

10. 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.

11. Word Study
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

12. 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. _________
painful
blister
pressure
ambulance .

13. 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.