(Page 16)
1. SPEAKING Look at the title of the text and the four warning signs (A–D). What is the connection? What do you think the text will be about?
| Reading Strategy When you do a matching task, follow these steps: 1. Read the text to get a general idea of the meaning. Do not worry if you do not understand every word. 2. Read the task and all the options carefully. 3. Read the paragraphs of the text carefully one by one and match them to the correct option. 4. Check that the extra options do not match with any of the paragraphs. |
2. Read the Reading Strategy. Then read the text quickly to get a general idea of the meaning. Were your ideas in exercise 1 correct?
3. Read the text again. Match the questions below with paragraphs A–E of the text.
In which paragraph does the writer tell us …
1. when doctors realised Ashlyn had a medical problem?
2. what causes her condition?
3. what happened when she burned her hands?
4. why some people die from this condition?
5. how school life for Ashlyn was unusual?
How did the doctor feel whne he saw. Ashlyn's eye injurry?
He was shocked because it was a serious injurry.
4. Complete the questions using the question words below. Then take turns to ask and answer the questions in pairs.
When What Who Why
1. How was the doctor shocked when he saw Ashlyn's eye injury?
2. _____ didn’t Ashlyn cry when she was a baby?
3. _____ watched Ashlyn carefully in the playground at school?
4. _____ did Ashlyn’s story first appear in newspapers?
5. _____ is the cause of Ashlyn’s medical condition?
5. VOCABULARY Find words in the text to do with accidents and injuries. Then complete gaps 1–7 below.
Accidents and injuries
Verbs
burn/ cut/ hurt/ (1) in _ _ _ e yourself/ your hand, etc.
fall/ (2) tr_p/ slip over
(3) b _ _ _ k your arm/ finger, etc.
bleedsprain your ankle/ wrist
hurt (e.g. my leg hurts)
Noun and phrases
(4) bl_ _da broken arm/ finger, etc.
(5) a b _ _ _se
(6) a b_ _na cut
(7) an in_ _ _y a sprain pain
6. SPEAKING Work in groups. Tell your classmates about a time when you hurt or injured yourself. Use vocabulary from exercise 5.
I broke my arm when I was six years old.
A. Warning. This wire fence is electrified.
B. Caution. Hot!
C. Mind your head.
D. Swimming pool.
(Page 17)
A life without pain
☊1.13
A. All children hurt themselves from time to time. But when thirteen-year-old Ashlyn Blocker gets injured, she doesn't realise it. Once, when she burned herself, she only knew about it when she looked at her skin.
B. There was always something different about Ashlyn. As a baby, she didn't cry. When she was eight months old, her parents noticed there was some blood in her eye, so they took her to see a doctor. The doctor found a serious cut in her eye and was shocked. Why didn't the baby cry? Tests showed that Ashlyn had a very unusual medical condition: she couldn't feel any pain.
C. This condition is very rare: many people who have it die of it. Pain is a natural warning that you're ill or injured. People who can't feel pain lust don't realise they're in danger.
D. The first few years of Ashlyn's life were very difficult. She often tripped and injured herself. Once, she broke her ankle but she didn't stop running. During school breaks, one teacher watched Ashlyn all the time in the playground and they had to search for cuts. bruises or other injuries.
E. When she was five, Ashlyn's story appeared in newspapers and on TV. Scientists studied her condition and found she has a genetic disorder that means pain signals do not reach her brain. Unfortunately, at the moment, there is no hope of a cure. And, as Ashlyn knows, a life without pain is both difficult and dangerous.
