Teaching Aims.
1. Learn more about giving first aid.
2. Do some writing practice to improve the students' writing ability.
3. Learn some useful words and expressions.
4. Learn to make a first aid kit.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Improve the students' integrating skills.
2. Help the students know better how to give first aid correctly.
3. Review the Subjunctive Mood
Teaching Difficult Points:
1. How to write a passage about giving first aid correctly.
2. How to help students master the Subjunctive Mood better.
Teaching Methods :
1. Reading to train the students' reading ability and understand the passage better.
2. Writing practice to improve the students' writing ability.
3. Individual or pair work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1. a tape recorder
2. a projector
3. a first aid kit
4. the blackboard
Teaching Procedures :
Step I Greetings and Lead-in
(Greet the whole class as usual.)
T: We have learnt much about giving firs aid in this unit. Now, I want to ask you some questions to see how much you have mastered. Are you ready?
Ss: Yes.
(Teacher shows the picture on the screen.)
T: What do you see in the picture? Wang Hun, you try, please.
S: I can see a boy is crying. A man is washing the boy's leg.
T: What else do you see?
S: Oh, yes. I see a dog running away.
T: So, what do you think has happened?
S: I guess the boy has been bitten by the dog.
T: I agree with you. What do you think the man should do?
S: Wash the boy's wound under running water and then take him to hospital.
T: Very good. Please sit down. Now, I'll tell you what happened to me yesterday. When I was cooking, suddenly the pan of oil caught fire and my hand was burnt. What do you suggest I do?
S: I'm sorry to hear that. I suggest you wash your hand under cold water for a moment until you feel better. Then you should cover it with a piece of dry clean cloth or your handkerchief. If necessary you should go to see a doctor and get some medicine.
T: Thank you very much. I feel much better today. It's not serious. But next time I'll be much more careful. Well done! The last question is what you should do if someone has been poisoned. Who knows?
S: I'm not quite sure. We haven't learnt about this by now. l think we should make the person spit out what he/she has had. Or maybe we just call for a doctor.
Step Ⅱ Reading and Understanding
T: OK. Today we'll read a passage about dealing with common injuries. From this passage you'll know whether your suggestions are right or wrong. Before you start, let's look at the screen. I'll explain something to you to help you understand better.
(Show the following on the screen.)
1. eventually: in the end; at last
e. g. He felt ill and eventually died.
Eventually he was tired of trying so hard.
2. spit vt./vi. (spat/ spit; spiting)
e. g. The injured man is spitting blood.
People who spit can spread disease.
3. call for
e. g. Let's go to the meeting together, and I'll call for you. If you find a person injured in an accident, please call for an ambulance.
4. make sure + that clause
e. g. Before you leave the lab, make sure that the lights are turned off. Please make sure that electric wires are safe.
5. find sb./sth. + prep. phr./doing/adj.
e. g. She found her uncle on the point of leaving the market.
He found a lot of people doing morning exercises there.
Do you find the book interesting?
(Bb: eventually ; spit; call for; make sure + that clause; find sb./sth. + prep. phr. /doing/adj. )
T: Now, read the passage carefully and quietly to find the answers to the questions in Ex 1.
(After a few minutes, ask some students to say their answers. )
Suggested answers:.
1. We should clear the airway first and then try to get him/her to breathe using the mouth-to-mouth way.
2. We must let the knife stay where it is. If we pull the knife out, blood may rush out. If the person loses one third of his blood, he may die. So we should call for an ambulance and send him or her to hospital immediately.
3. First I should cheek to see if she is breathing. If not, clear the airway and try to get her to breathe. Then call for an ambulance. Don't forget to search the room for any pills or bottles that may be the poison. This will help the doctor know what kind of poison the girl has swallowed.
4. Wash the wound under cold water Then see a doctor as soon as possible.
5. Cool the area of skin at once. Wash the area of skin under the cold tap for several minutes. Cover the wound with a loose bandage or a piece of dry clean cloth. If it is serious, go to see a doctor soon.
Step Ⅲ Listening and Reading Aloud
T: Now, let's listen to the tape twice. The first time I play the tape you should listen carefully and the second time you can read after the tape. Pay more attention to your intonation. Then read the passage by yourselves aloud. At last I'll ask several students to read the passage.
(Play the tape for Ss to listen and repeat. Then ask several students to read the passage. One student, one paragraph.)
Step IV Practice
T: By now, we've learnt a lot about giving first aid. I have a quiz for you to check if you know how to give first aid correctly. Look at the screen and do it by yourselves.
(Show the following on the screen.)
First Aid Quiz
1. What should you do if you find a person who has stopped breathing?
A. Run and find help.
B. Try to start his/her breathing.
2. What should you do if you find a person with a knife in his/her back?
A. Leave the knife in.
B. Pull the knife out.
3. What should you do if you find a person whose leg is bleeding?
A. Tie a piece of cloth around the leg above the bleeding point.
B. Press firmly on the bleeding point using a clean handkerchief.
4. What should you do if you find a person who has been hurt in a car accident?
A. Leave him/her in the car.
B. Pull him/her out of the car.
5. What should you do if a person has drunk poison by mistake?
A. Make the person throw up.
B. Take the person and the poison container to a hospital at once.
(A few minutes later.)
T: OK. Now, discuss your answers in pairs.
(Ss have a short discussion.)
OK. Let's check the answers. Wang Jie, what's your answer to the first question?
S: My answer is B.
T: Can you tell us why?
S: Because if we don't start the person's breathing within five minutes, the person will die.
T: Good. Please sit down. Now, let's look at the second question.
(Deal with the other questions in the same way.)
Suggested answers:
2. A 3. B 4. A 5. B
T; Well done. From this test I know that you've learnt much about giving first aid. After class, you can write your own first aid test in groups of four, according to the second practice on Page
Step V Writing
T: We've learnt a lot about first aid, and we can deal with some common injuries. But most people don't know about giving first aid. We should help more people to know first aid, so that more people can be saved in accidents. Now, let's write a passage about how to give first aid. You can choose one of the accident scenes from the reading passage or from the pictures in the warming up activity and explain what should be done. Before you write, you should think carefully about what you are going to explain. What are the basic steps? How would you explain them? In which order should you explain them? What does the reader need to know or think about in order to perform the steps? Look at the screen. The information may help you.
(Show the following on the screen.)
First, make sure that the accident scene is safe. Before you start giving first aid, you need to make sure that the accident scene is safe.
Then, you must decide what to do.
After giving first aid, you may place the person in the recovery position.
Finally, you should keep the person warm.
(Allow the students a few minutes to finish the task.)
T: Have you finished?
Ss: Yes.
T: Good. Now, exchange your paragraph with your partner. After your partner reads your passage, ask them if you have explained all the steps, if it is easy to follow the steps, if the order is clear and if he/she needs more explanations.
(A few minutes later)
T: In this unit, we've learnt a lot about giving first aid. We know how to deal with common injuries. We know that many common injuries happen every day at home. So a first aid kit is needed. (Bb.-a first aid kit)Do you know what it is?
Ss: No.
T: OK. I'll show you one. (Show the students a first aid kit which the teacher has prepared.) Now, do you know what it is?
Ss: Yes, it is a“急救箱”
T: Right. We need a first aid kit to do first aid. So it is very useful. Do you know what we need to make one?
Ss: We are not sure.
T: Look carefully. (Show the students things like: bandages, a pair of scissors, a thermometer, a flashlight and a list of emergency phone numbers. Tell the students what they are and write them down on the blackboard.)
Step VI Summary and Checkpoint
T: Today we've read more about giving first aid. We've also written a paragraph to explain how to give first aid. After class, show your paragraph to more people to help them know about first aid. We've also learnt how to make a first aid kit. When you go home you can make one. It will be very useful. Besides, we've learnt the Subjunctive Mood. Now, let's do some exercises to review it. Look at the screen, please. Finish them quickly by yourselves.
(Show the following on the screen.)
Rewrite the following sentences:
1. I didn't know more about giving first aid, so I couldn't help them.
→If I had , I could have .
2. We won't he able to help if we panic.
→If we were to , we would .
3. We won't be able to help if we get hurt trying to save someone.
→If we were to , we would.
(A few minutes later, check the answers with the whole class.)
Suggested answers:
1. If 1 had known more about giving first aid, I could have helped them.
2. It we were to panic, we would not be able to help.
3. If we were to get hurt trying to save someone, we wouldn't be able to help.
T: Good. Well done. After class you need more practice to master it better. And remember to review the important words and expressions we learnt today. That's all for today. See you tomorrow
Ss: See you tomorrow
Step Ⅶ The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard
Unit 8 First aid
The Fourth Period
Words and expressions:
eventually, spit, call for
make sure + that-clause
find sb. / sth. + prep. phr./doing/adj.
A first aid kit:
bandages, a pair of scissors, a thermometer, a flashlight, a list of emergency:
phone. numbers
Step Ⅷ Record after Teaching