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Unit 5 First AidUnit 5 First Aid

Warming up and Reading

甘肃省积石山县积石中学；蒋卫亚

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

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.

Cool the area of skin.

Wash it under the cold running water.

Cover the wound with bandage / clean

cloth.

See a doctor if necessary.

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

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

Characteristics

◆ 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

whitewatery

tissue

nerves

First aid treatment

◆ 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

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

Detail InformationFill 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 _____ _____ _____ .

skinskin

three layersthree layers

keeps

keeps

warm

warm

coolcool

prevents

prevents

from

from

losing

losingwaterwater

sensesense ofof touchtouch

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

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

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

42

5

2. Label these pictures with first,

second and third degree burn.

second degreesecond degree first degreefirst degree third degreethird degree

The three layers of skin:

The third layer

The second layer

The top layer

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

If you have time, please know

more about First Aid.

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.