Breathing

Label the pictures.

carbon dioxide/ heart/ oxygen/blood/ arteries/lungs/veins

Listen and fill in.

The movement of your blood through your heart and around your body is called
circulation. The process of circulation is fast! It takes less than a 1………………….to
pump blood to every port of your body.
When you breathe in, 2……………………… goes into your lungs.
Blood from your lungs fills with oxygen and moves into the 3 ……………………. side of
your heart.
The left side of your heart pumps the blood with oxygen in it out through tubes
called 4………………………... Arteries carry blood away from your heart to your body.
Your body takes the oxygen out of the blood and uses it to stay 5 …………………and
strong. We need oxygen for everything we do: moving, growing, speaking and
thinking. If we do not have oxygen, we cannot live.
When your body uses the oxygen from your 6………………………., it makes carbon
dioxide. Your body doesn't need this, so the blood 7……………………… takes it away,
Other tubes, called, carry the blood with carbon dioxide in it back to your heart. The
blood from body goes in 8………………………….to the right side of your heart'
The right side of your 9 …………………………. pumps this blood into your lungs. Your
lungs 10………………………. the carbon dioxide from the blood.
When you breathe out, the carbon dioxide goes back into the air.
All this happens in about a minute, and all you have to do is breathe!
 Choose the correct answer
1. What carries
4. Is circulation blood back to
slow? your heart?
a) Yes a) Arteries
b) No b) Veins
5. Where does 2. What organ
blood go from removes carbon
your lungs? dioxide
a) into the right from your
side of your blood?
heart a) Lungs
b) Heart

How a broken leg is treated

1. Listen to a science class presentation about how a broken bone is treated. What is a cast?

A cast is _____________________________________________________________________________________

4. How is a cast prepared? Fill in the gaps with the words below:

around  bandages  couldn’t  hard  kept  plaster  short

First the ___________________ 1 were put in __________________ 2;

then they were put _________________ 3 my leg. In a
________________ 4 time, the bandages became very
_______________ 5, and I ______________ 6 move my leg. That’s how
the broken bone is _______________ 7 in place.
2. Listen again and complete the sentences.
1) Sarah broke her leg while she was _______________________________.
2) When someone breaks a bone, you mustn’t _________________ that part of their body.
3) An X-ray is a type of _____________________________.
4) A cast is usually put on a broken leg or arm for one to two ___________________.
5) When the bone is better, a saw is used to _______________________ the cast.