Sun safety Lesson 46 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Sunlight carries invisible ultraviolet rays, or UV; they cannot be felt as heat, but they burn the skin and over many years can cause skin cancer. 1 UV is strongest in the middle of the day, in summer and in sunny places such as Australia and New Zealand, and it gets through thin clouds, so you can burn on a cool, cloudy day. 2 In Australia children learn to slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat, seek shade and slide on sunglasses. 3 Sunscreen goes on before you go out and is put on again every two hours and after swimming, because it rubs and washes off. 4 In hot weather you also drink water often; a girl in Arizona who plays all afternoon in the heat without drinking may get a headache and feel dizzy and sick, which is a sign to go to the shade, cool down, drink and tell an adult. 5 A girl in Queensland spent a whole day at the beach without sun cream; she got burnt so badly she had blisters and a fever and could not sleep. 6 A toddler in Arizona was left asleep in a parked car for a short time; the car heated up fast and he had to be rushed to hospital with heatstroke. 7 The Sun gives out invisible ultraviolet, or UV, rays that burn the skin. 8 You cannot feel UV rays, so you can burn even when it does not feel hot. 9 Much of the UV gets through clouds, so you can burn on a cloudy day. 10 UV is strongest around the middle of the day. 11 Australia and New Zealand have some of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world. 12 Sunscreen should be at least SPF 30 (SPF is the number that shows how strongly it protects) and be put on again every two hours and after swimming. 13 A hat with a wide brim shades your face, ears and neck. 14 Water, sand and snow reflect UV, so you can burn even under an umbrella or on a ski slope. 15 Sunburn on a child's skin raises the chance of skin cancer later in life. 16 People with darker skin can still get sunburnt and still need sun protection. 17 In hot weather you need to drink water often, before you feel very thirsty. 18 A parked car can become dangerously hot in minutes, so children and pets must never be left inside one. 19 A tan is not a sign of healthy skin; it is a sign that UV has damaged the skin. ← previous Pools, lakes and icenext → Hiking and the outdoors↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/