UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL FRANCISCO JOS DE CALDAS

INSTITUTO DE LENGUAS DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL ILUD-

ENGLISH COURSES FOR TEENAGERS
INTRO 2

READ AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW.

Human Body

Your heart is really a muscle. It's located a little to

the left of the middle of your chest, and it's about the
size of your fist. There are lots of muscles all over
your body - in your arms, in your legs, in your back,
even in your behind. But this muscle is special
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around your body. The blood provides your body with
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the oxygen and nutrients it needs. It also carries

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away the waste that your body has to get rid of.
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the body and pumps it to the lungs. The left side of

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the heart does the exact opposite: it receives blood

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from the lungs and pumps it out to the body. By the

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time you're grown up, your heart will be beating

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(pumping) about 70 times a minute.

How does the heart beat? Before each beat, your

heart fills with blood. Then it contracts to squirt the
blood along. When something contracts, it squeezes
 1. Where is your heart located? ___________________________________________
___________________________________________

2. Where else can you find muscles in ___________________________________________

your body besides the heart? ___________________________________________

3. Why do we need a heart? ___________________________________________

___________________________________________

4. Which organ(s) directly works with ___________________________________________

the heart? ___________________________________________

1. FIND ALL THE BODY WORDS IN THE LIST.

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 2. READ THIS TEXT

Orcinus orca is the killer whale. A killer whale can swim 20 kph (kilometers per hour), but it cant see
more than 100 meters. So how do killer whales find food? The answer is that they use sound. Killer
whales can hear sounds that humans cant hear, and they use sound to find food. They also use
sounds to talk and their sounds can travel through the water.
NOW USE THESE WORDS TO MAKE AND ANSWER QUESTIONS.

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Can/ hear sounds that we cannot?
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Can/ use sounds to communicate?
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Can/ find food with sounds?
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Can/ talk through the water?
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2. LISTEN AND CHECK THE QUESTIONS YOU HEAR. LISTEN AGAIN AND CIRCLE
THE ANSWERS YOU HEAR.

3. CAN LUCY AND BRAD DO THESE THINGS?

CHECK THE BOX FOR YES,
CROSS THE BOX FOR NO
AND WRITE ? FOR I DONT KNOW
USE THE PICTURES TO DESCRIBE WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THESE PARS OF YOUR
BODY.

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1. GO TO: http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/htbw_main_page.html

THEN:
LOOK AT THE HEADING Bones
CLICK ON Activity: the Skeleton
PRINT AND LABEL THE PARTS OF THE SKELETON
2. GO TO THE LINK BELOW, HERE YOU CAN CHOOSE ANY GAME, EXPERIMENTS,
QUIZZES, WATCH AND LISTEN VIDEOS AND MORE ABOUT HOW YOUR BODY
WORKS.

http://kidshealth.org/kid/closet/index.html