Florence Nightingale

1. What’s the word?

Write the word under the pictures.

nurse get married servant party hospital dirty

soldier died clean bandage lamp medal

bandage soldier medal get married hospital

nurse

party servant dirty clean died lamp

2. What’s the order?

Listen to the story and put the sentences in order.
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At night, Florence talked to the injured soldiers and helped the men to write letters. In the
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Crimean War, there were no nurses in the army hospitals and many men died.

1 Nightingale lived in the 19th century. She wanted to be a nurse and help people. She
Florence
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continued to work hard in Britain to improve hospitals and she was given a medal.
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When Florence returned to England, people called her a
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heroine. In 1851, Florence went to Germany and learned
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about nursing.
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She carried a lamp and the soldiers called her ‘The lady with the lamp’.

Florence made the army hospital a cleaner and safer place, so fewer men died.

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 3. Answer the QUEstions!
Write your answers to the questions.

a. What did Florence want to be? She WANTEd to be A nurse.

b. Why didn't her parents want her to be a nurse? Because hospitals were dirty and horrible.

c. Why did she go to Germany? She wanted to learn about nursing.

d. Why did lots of men die in the army hospitals? They were dirty and there were no nurses.

e. How did she improve the hospital? She cleaned the beds and she used clean bandages

f. How did she help the soldiers? She talked to them and helped them write letters.

g. Why was she called 'The lady with the lamp'? She carried a lamp around the hospital at night.

h. What did she get from Queen Victoria? She got a letter to say thank you.

i. What did she do when she returned to Britain? She continued to help improve hospitals.

j. Why was it special for her to get the Order of Merit medal? She was the first woman to get
it.

4. Writing
Answer this according to the video and audio. Did you want to be a
nurse or doctor when you were a kid? What did you want to be?

My mother is a doctor. I think it's a lifesaver

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