HOW

MEDICINES
WORK
LEARNING OUTCOMES

★ Understand that medicines work by killing

germs or by replacing missing substances in
the body
★ Identify and write about safe ways to take
medicines
MATERIALS

01. CAMBRIDGE
ELEVATE
02. LEARNER’S BOOK

03. ACTIVITY BOOK

04. VIDEO
WORDS TO
LEARN
★ symptoms
★ germs
★ prescribe
★ fever
★ cure
★ Difference
between
symptoms and
cure
★ How medicine
help us
Symptoms and cures
When we are ill, we have
signs of the illness called
symptoms. Different
illnesses have different
symptoms.
 One of the symptoms is a
fever. Medicines help to take
Look at this away the symptoms of the
picture! illness.
Often we become ill because
germs enter our body.
Medicines can help to kill the
germs and make the illness go
away. When medicines make
illness go away, we say that the
medicines cure us.
These germs can only be seen with a
powerful microscope. They cause
sore throats
Medicines make us better but we
have to take them safely. You
should only take medicines if
they are given to you by doctor, a
nurse or an adult who looks after
you. Sometimes a doctor will
prescribe medicines
 Activity 1.6
Taking Medicine
safely
Question 1-2
 Question
Predict what you
think would happen
if you didn’t take all
the medicine that
doctor prescribed
for you.
 WHAT YOU HAVE
LEARNT Why must
some medicine
be prescribed
by a doctor?
SYMPTOMS CURE MEDICINES

Symptoms are the Medicines can cure We must follow the

signs of illness. illness and make instructions to take
them go away. medicines safely.
 Exercise 1.6 How
Medicines Work (1)

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 THANKS
!
STAY SAFE AND
HEALTHY
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