2008年 11月 14日 6时 10分许，上海商学院一栋宿舍楼的寝室发生火灾，四名女生坠楼身亡。有人为４个年轻的生命就此陨落而痛惜，有人对生命消逝的悲痛，有对花季少女的惋惜，也有对大学生自救能力欠缺的思考。

上海商学院火灾事件

Unit 5 First Aid

What is first aid?

• First aid is a temporary form of help given to someone who suddenly falls ill or gets injured before a doctor can be found.

How to deal with common injuries

a snake bite

a sprained ankle

Common injuries

Advice

Lay the victim down and keep him/her stillDo not wash the venom(毒液 ) offDo not try to suck(吸 )out the venomSee a doctor as soon as possible

Put a bandage on the wound and apply pressure to reduce the bleeding

Have the victim sit down Put an ice pack on the ankle to reduce the swelling Put a firm bandage around the foot and ankle

Broken arm

If the person can cough/speak/breathe, don’t doanything. If not, you can slap her on her back to unblock(疏通 )the airway(气管 ).

Do not move the broken bone if possible. Do not move the victim. Get medical help immediately.

Get the person to sit downTilt(倾斜 ) his/her head forward slightly Gently pinch(捏、掐 ) the soft part of the nose below the bridge(鼻梁 )

Pre-reading1. What will happen to the little girl?2. What kind of first aid would you perform in this situation?

First Aid For Burns

Burn: an injury that you get when something burns your skin 烧伤、烫伤、灼伤

What’s the main idea of each part?

Part1:

Part2:

Part3:

Part4:

Part5:

Reading Functions of skin

Causes of burns

Types of burns

Characteristics of burns

First aid treatment

Part 1 1.How many layers of skin do we have? 2.How many functions of skin are mentioned? And what are they?

4 functions

It keeps you warm or cool.

It gives youyour sense of touch.

It prevents your body from losing too much water.

It is where you feel cold, heat or pain.

• 视觉• 听觉• 嗅觉• 味觉

sense of sight

sense of hearing

sense of smell

sense of taste

Poison

Noun : a substance that can kill you or make you sick if you eat, drink or breathe it 毒药

e.g. One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

Verb : to kill sb or sth with poison 使中毒Adj : poisonous 有毒的

poisonous gases/plants

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Part 2 Causes of burns• What are the various causes of

burns?

Part 3＆ Part 4

Types of burns Criteria Examples Characteristics

First degree

Second degree

Third degree

The top layer of the skin

Both the top and the second layer of the skin

All the three layers of the skin and any tissue and organs under the skin

Severe sunburn;

hot liquids

Mild sunburn; touching a hot pan, stove or iron

① Black, white, charred; ② Swollen; tissue ; ③ Little or no pain; pain

around edge of injured area

① Rough, red and swollen;

② Blisters; ③ Watery surface;

④Extremely painful

①dry, red and mildly swollen;②Mildly painful;③Turn white when pressed

Electric shocks; burning clothes; severe petrol fires

swell: to become larger than normal 肿胀，膨胀

be swollen with anger

• Q: Why doesn’t a third degree burn hurt?

Part 5 First aid treatment

• Squeeze: to press something firmly, especially with your hands 挤，压

e.g. squeeze juice from oranges

• Q1: Why do you think clothes and jewellery near burns should be removed?

• Q2: Why should you put cool water on a burn?

T or F1. Our skin has three layers.2. We will never get burned by the sun.3. Burns are divided into three degrees according to

the degree of pain.4. Third degree burns are the most serious and painful.5. Put cold water on any burns to cool them.6. Do not rub the burns.7. It’s better that you put some butter or oil on burns.

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Review

• ___the 3 types of burns

• ___what to do if someone gets burned

• ___the functions of the skin

• ___the characteristics of burns

• ___how we get burns

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Try our best to give them eff ective first aid if they are in danger.

Try our best to give them Try our best to give them eff ective first aid if they eff ective first aid if they are in danger.are in danger.

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

Lif e is preciousLif e is preciousLif e is precious

Read the text carefully and find out the language points

Bye- bye!