First aid

Teaching Aims

1．Train the students’ listening ability．

2．Help the students to improve their speaking ability by talking about first aid and medicine．

3．Learn and master some useful words and phrases：drown，bleed，choke，prevent，electric，electrical，catch fire．be on fire

Teaching Important Points：

1. Improve the students’  listening ability．

2. Train the students’ speaking ability.

Teaching Difficult Points:

1. How to improve the students’ listening ability.

2. how to help the students finish the speaking practice.

Teaching Methods：

1．Listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through the listening material．

2．Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class．

Teaching Aids

1．a tape recorder

2．a projector

3．the blackboard

Teaching Procedures：

Step I Greetings and Warming up

  Greet the whole class as usual.

T：(Go to one student．) How do you come to school every day，by bike ,by bus or on foot?

If you are not careful enough。you may have an accident．Have you ever seen an accident?

T： Now，look at the picture on the screen，please．

  (Show the picture on the screen．)

T：Do you see the woman? I think she is hurl badly．Maybe her leg is broken．What can we do to help her?

T： OK．Now，please turn to Page 57 and look at the pictures in Warming up．Have a discussion in pairs to find out what you should do in these situations and what we could do to prevent these accidents．

  (Give the students a moment to prepare and then ask some pairs to report their results．)

Suggested answers：

Picture l

I think if we see someone drowning，we should first check to see if he／she is breathing．If not, we must try to start his／her breathing．If this is not done within five minutes，the person may die．

To prevent such an accident，we should not go swimming alone or go swimming in unsafe places．

Picture 3

When we see a house on fire and someone is burnt，we should call  119  first and tell them the exact address on the phone．And we should also call 120 to ask for an ambulance to help．If the person is badly burnt, or if a child has been burnt，we should do nothing but wait for the doctor．If the person is not badly burnt, we can cool the area of skin under the cold tap for several minutes and then put a piece of dry clean cloth over the area of burn. To prevent this, we should not play with fire, be careful with gas and make sure that all the electric wires are safe.

Picture 4

If someone is bleeding badly, we must try to stop the bleeding first. If a person loses one third of his/her blood, he/she may die. We can press a handkerchief onto the bleeding point and hold it there. If possible, hold up the part of body which is bleeding. We must be very careful what ever we do.

Picture 5

If a person is cut, we can wash the area of the cut, dry it and cover it with a piece of dry clean cloth. But if the person is badly cut, we should wait for the doctor. When we're working, we must pay more attention to safety.

Picture 6

If a person chokes, what we should do is to make him/her spit by patting him/her on the back. To avoid this, you shouldn't talk or laugh when eating.

T: Very good. You've known much about first aid. In this unit, we'll learn more about first aid. What new words do you think should be useful when you talk about accidents and first aid?

S: I think we may use "calm, conscious, chest, revive" and so on.

T: Good. Now, please turn to Page 111. I'll teach you the new words in this period. Please read after me.

  (Students read the words after their teacher twice and then they have a few minutes to read by themselves. At last, the teacher may ask some students to read the words to see if they can read them correctly. )

T: I think you all can read them very well. Now, please look at the screen. I'll explain something to you.

(Show the following on the screen to the students.)

  1. drown vt./vi, die in water/sound be louder or stronger than …

    e. g. He drowned the kitten.

    Cheers drowned his voice.     

    Do cats drown easily?

  2. bleed vi. (bled; bled) lose blood

   e. g. His nose bled last night.

    The cut on his leg was bleeding badly.

  3. choke vi./vt, cause (sb.) to stop breathing by squeezing or blocking the windpipe                             e. g. He choked when he ate his food too quickly.

   The smoke almost choked me.

  4. prevent yr. stop or hinder sb./sth.

    e. g. Bad weather prevented me (from) starting.

     Your prompt action prevented a serious accident.

   5. catch fire., begin to burn be on fire. be burning

     e. g. The house caught fire last night.

        The house is on fire.

   6. electric adj. using electrical power electrical adj. of /concerned with electricity

     e. g. I want to buy an electric fan.

     This machine has an electrical fault.

    (Explain the language points to students and help them to master the important words and phrases. Write them on the blackboard. )

Step Ⅱ Speaking

T: Just now we've discussed what we should do when some accidents happen. But you know certain things at home can be dangerous. So we must know what we should do and         shouldn't do. Please look at the screen. Here are some dos and don'ts. Work in pairs to tell each other what you should do and shouldn't do. The useful expressions below may help you.

(Show the following on the screen. )  SB page 58

 (A moment later, ask some students to act out their dialogues. )

Sample dialogue:

A: To be safe at home, you should always make sure that electric wires are safe and that children can't touch them.

B: Right. And we shouldn't play with electrical equipment.

A: We should never leave small things on the floor or table which a baby can put in its mouth.

B: Yes. You should never use ladders on a wet floor. You must have someone hold it for you

A: Remember not to put poisons into other containers, for example empty bottles.

B: If a pan of oil catches fire, turn off the gas and cover the pan quickly.

A: You should also make everyone in your family know how to call 110.

B: I agree. We have to learn more about first aid, which is very helpful to us.

Step Ⅲ Preparation for Listening

T: OK. We've talked much about what we should do when an accident happens and what we should do and shouldn't do at home. I think you've known something about first aid. Look at the listening part. Here are two pictures. Look at the first picture, please. What can you see? The same as the 2^nd one.

T: OK. From the two pictures, we can guess some information about the stories. Now, read the requirements quickly and find out what to do.

 (Give Ss a few minutes to prepare. )

Step Ⅳ Listening

T: Now, you've known what to do. Let's listen to the tape to see what has happened in each story. Listen carefully. The first time, I play the tape, you should get the general idea. The second time, you should try to finish the exercises. And the third time I play the tape, you should check your answers. Are you clear?

  (Play the tape for Ss and pause the tape when necessary for Ss to write down their answers. Finally, check the answers with the whole class. Give explanations or play the tape once more if       necessary. )

Step V Summary and Homework

T: Today, we've talked about what we should do in case of accidents. And also we have learnt what we shouldn't do at home. This is quite useful to us. After class, you should try to remember them. If you want to know more about first aid, you can preview the reading passage. That’s all for today. See you tomorrow!

Ss: See you tomorrow

Step VI The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard

Unit 8  First aid

           The First Period

    Words and expressions:

    drown vt./vi,         catch fire

    bleed vi.             be on fire