Book 2: Success in Emergencies

 Student Checklist

Page
  13 Poison!
  14 Story: Poison!
  Discussion Questions
  15-16 Story Questions
  More Questions
  17 911 Dialog: Please Hurry!
  18 Present or Past?
  19 At the Emergency Department
  Discussion Questions: Calling 911
  20-21 First Aid Emergencies
  22 How Accident-Prone Are You?
Write Your Own Story
  23 Bad News
Reflexive Pronouns: Do It Yourself!
  24 Listening: An Hour in the Life of a 911 Operator
  Word Builders
 Supplement 1… Irregular Past Tense Verbs
  Supplement 2… Extra Song: A Sad Lesson
 Poison!
Listen to your teacher tell the story.
Then write the story with your class.

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 Story: Poison!
Instructions: Order the sentences. The first one is done for you.
___ She felt very sick and became unconscious.
___ A few minutes later, Mary finished her phone call and came back
into the room.
___ She took out a bottle of cleaner and drank some.
___ An ambulance came and they all went to the hospital together.
___ Her baby opened the cupboard under the sink.
___ She phoned 911 right away.
1 Mary Lee was in the kitchen doing the dishes. Her baby was in
the kitchen with her.
___ She screamed when she saw her baby unconscious on the floor.
___ Mary left to answer the phone.

Discussion Questions
1. What do you think? Was the accident Mary’s fault ? Why/Why not?
2. Do you have poison at home ? Where? What kind ?
3. If someone swallows poison, what should you do?
Is it always a good idea to make them vomit?
4. What can parents do to protect their children from poisons ?

New Words
accident (n) (AC ci dent) 
ambulance (n) (AM bu lance)
cupboard (n) (CUP board)
fault (n)   
poison (n) (POI son) swallow (v) (SWAL low)
sink (n) unconscious (adj.) (un CON scious)
scream (n & v) vomit (v) (VO mit)
protect (v) (pro TECT) 

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Story Questions
First: Fill in the blanks.
Next: Work in pairs. The first person asks the questions. Their partner answers
with their book closed. Then change.

1. Where _________ Mrs. Lee? She was in the kitchen.

What ________ she doing? She was doing the
dishes.
Who _________ with her? Her baby was with her.

2. Why ________ she leave She left to answer

the room? the phone.

Who _______ left alone Her baby was left

in the kitchen? alone in the kitchen.

3. What _________ the baby She opened the

open? cupboard under the
sink.

4. What ________ she take out? She took out a bottle

of cleaner.

Then what _______ she do? She drank some.

5. How ________ she feel? She felt very sick.

Then what happened? She became

unconscious.

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 6. When _______ Mary She finished her phone call
finish her phone call? a few minutes later.
Where _______ she go She came back into the
then? room/kitchen.

7. What _______ she do She screamed!

when she saw her baby?
Why ________ she Because her baby was
scream? unconscious.

8. What number _______ She called 911.

she call?

9. What came? An ambulance came.

Where _______ the It took them to the hospital.

ambulance take them?

More Questions!
With your partner, write three questions the doctor will want to ask Mary.
Write three questions she will want to ask the doctor.
The Doctor's Questions:
1. _________________________________________________________________?
2. _________________________________________________________________?
3. _________________________________________________________________?
Mary's Questions:
1. _________________________________________________________________?
2. _________________________________________________________________?
3. _________________________________________________________________?

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911 Dialog:
Please Hurry!
Instructions:
1. Read the dialog with your teacher.
2. Do the dialog with your partner.
Use your own name, address and
telephone number.

A. Police, Ambulance, Fire.

B. Hello! I need an ambulance!
A. Okay, what’s your name?
B. Mary Lee.
A. How do you spell it?
B. That’s Mary: M-A-R-Y. Lee: L-E-E.
A. What is your address ?
B. 1833 E. 61. Pardon me ???
A. 1833 E. 61?
B. Yes, that’s right! How do you spell that?
A. Is there an apartment number ? Did you say _____?
B. Yes, it’s apartment 204. = Was that ______?
A. And your phone number? Pardon me ?
B. 299-3084. =Come again ?
A. 299..? =Could you repeat that?
B. 3084.
A. 3084. Okay. Please wait one moment.
(......)What is the problem?
B. My baby drank poison!
A. Okay. An ambulance is on the way.
Do you know what kind of poison it was ?
B. I don’t know! It was some kind of cleaner.
A. Okay. Wait right there with your baby.
Give the ambulance drivers the bottle of poison when they come.
B. Okay. Please hurry!

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 Present or Past?
Use the present for things that usually happen.
I go shopping every Friday.
Use the past for things that happened in the past.
I went shopping last Friday.

 Fill in the blanks.

1. Mary __________ (do) the dishes every day after breakfast .
2. On Friday, Mary’s husband _________ (do) the dishes.
3. Mary __________ (leave) to answer the phone.
4. The phone always _________ (ring) when you ______ (be) busy!
5. Mary usually never _________ (leave) her baby alone.
6. That day, she __________ (leave) the kitchen for only a minute.
7. Mary’s baby __________ (like) juice.
8. Many children __________ (like) juice.
9. The baby ____________ (think) the poison _____ (be) juice.
10. She __________ (open) the bottle and ________ (drink) some.
11. Many children __________ (drink) poison every year.
12. Now Mary _____________ (be) always very careful.
13. Mary ___________ (keep) all her cleaners in a locked cupboard.
14. She ______________ (want) to prevent another accident!

Write: (a) the question; and (b) the short answer for each sentence.
Example: 1.

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 Pair Dialogs
At the hospital Mary talked to the
doctor. Then she phoned her husband
and her parents. She wanted to stay at
the hospital with her baby that night, so
she also called her boss at the restaurant
to ask for the evening off. Her husband
first talked to his wife on the phone and
then told his boss he had to go to the
hospital. At the hospital he talked to his
wife and then to the doctors. They both
talked to their daughter.
With your partner, pick one
conversation and write the dialog. Then
do it for your classmates. Ask them to
listen and guess who A and B are.

Discussion Questions: Calling 911!

1. When do you call 911 ?
a) for police emergencies; b) for an ambulance; c) to get a doctor; d) for fire;
e) for police, ambulance, or fire; or f) for information?
2. Do you have a ‘911’ line in your country? What is it called? What is it used for?
3. Have you ever called the 911 number in Canada ? When ? Why?
4. Did you ever call the emergency number in your country? When ? Why?
5. What other special numbers do people call? How many of the following do you know?
What are they? When are they used?
a) 411 b) 0 c) 1-800 d) 1-900
HOMEWORK: Find the following in the phone book.
Emergency Number Non-Emergency Number
Police
====================================================================================================
Ambulance
================================================================================================-===
Fire

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 1) What is happening in each picture?
2) What is the name for each emergency?
3) What should you do?

 Ling Su was cooking with hot oil.

The oil got too hot and it started
on fire. She burned her hand.

 Rene was fixing his T.V. He

touched a wire and got a shock.
He fell down and isn't breathing.

 Tommy was crossing the street.

A car ran the red light and hit him.
Tommy isn't bleeding. He's
breathing, but he's unconscious.

 Ping was taking out the garbage.

Suddenly he felt a strong pain in his chest.
He felt weak and had trouble breathing.

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  Jenny was in the bathroom.
She saw some medicine and
thought it was candy. She ate it.

 Alex was having supper.

Suddenly he grabbed his throat.
He couldn't talk and he couldn't breath.

 Jim was going down the stairs

when he tripped on a ball and fell.
He's conscious but he feels
pain in his back and neck.

 Yvonne was washing some cans for

recycling. She cut her hand on the lid
of a can. The cut is bleeding heavily.

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How Accident-Prone Are You?
When someone gets hurt a lot or often has accidents, we say they are
“accident- prone”. How accident-prone are you? Interview several of
your classmates to find out who is the most accident-prone in the class!

Have you ever......?

1. had a bad burn? 5. fallen?

2. cut yourself badly? 6. got an electric shock?
3. taken an ambulance? 7. choked on something?
4. been in a car accident? 8. had any other close calls?

If your partner says yes to one of the above questions, also ask them:
When ?
How did it happen?
What did you do?
Did anyone help you?
Did you see a doctor or go to the hospital?
What happened afterwards ?

Your Story!
Write about an accident that happened to you or someone you know.
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 What happened next?
Write the end of the story!
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

Reflexive Pronouns: Do It Yourself!

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Listening: An Hour in the Life of a 911 Operator
Jane is a 911 operator. Every day
she answers many calls on the emergency
lines. This morning these are the calls she
received. Listen and fill out the missing
information.

Name Address Phone # Problem

Word Builders
‘un’ before an adjective means ‘not’. Write the opposite of each of the
words below, then write a sentence using each.
1. conscious 2. happy
3. lucky 4. comfortable
5. popular 6. usual

1. ____________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________________
4. ____________________________________________________________
5. ____________________________________________________________
6. ____________________________________________________________

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 Irregular Past Tense Verbs
For most verbs, add "-ed" to make the past. Example: work - worked
For irregular verbs, do not add "-ed". Example: write - wrote

PRESENT PAST PRESENT PAST

be: am, is, are was, were know knew
become became leave left
begin began lose lost
bite bit make made
bleed bled mean meant
break broke meet met
bring brought put put
buy bought read read
catch caught ride rode
come came run ran
cost cost say said
cut cut see saw
do did sell sold
drink drank send sent
drive drove shake shook
eat ate sing sang
fall fell sit sat
feel felt sleep slept
fight fought speak spoke
find found spend spent
forget forgot stand stood
freeze froze steal stole
get got take took
give gave teach taught
go went tell told
have had think thought
hear heard throw up threw up
hit hit understand understood
hold held wake woke
hurt hurt wear wore
keep kept write wrote

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