First aid and safety Lesson 39 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 22 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 First aid is the help you give someone straight away, before a doctor comes. 1 The first rule is to keep yourself safe, and the second is to get help from an adult or call the emergency number: 911 in the USA and Canada, 999 in the UK and Ireland (where 112 also works), 000 in Australia and 111 in New Zealand. 2 A burn should be cooled under cool running water for about 20 minutes. 3 Never put ice, butter or cream on it: ice damages the skin further and butter keeps the heat in. 4 For a cut that bleeds, press a clean cloth firmly on it to stop the bleeding. 5 For a nosebleed, lean forward, not back, and pinch the soft part of the nose. 6 On the road, cross at a crossing, stop, look and listen both ways, and wear bright or reflective clothes in the dark so drivers can see you. 7 In a fire, get out fast and stay low, because smoke rises and the cleaner air is near the floor. 8 Never go back inside. 9 If your clothes catch fire: stop, drop and roll. 10 When giving first aid, first make sure you are safe yourself. 11 The emergency number is 911 in the USA and Canada and 999 in the UK and Ireland, where 112 also works. 13 Australians often call their country Oz for short. 14 When calling for help, say what happened and where you are, and do not hang up until told to. 15 A burn should be cooled under cool running water for about 20 minutes, never with ice, butter or cream. 16 Pressing a clean cloth firmly on a cut helps stop the bleeding. 17 For a nosebleed, lean forward and pinch the soft part of the nose. 18 Smoke rises, so the cleanest air in a fire is near the floor. 19 If your clothes catch fire, stop, drop and roll. 20 Never go back into a burning building. 21 Cross the road at a crossing and look and listen both ways. 22 Bright or reflective clothes help drivers see you in the dark. ← previous Sleep, exercise and growing upnext → Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics↑ back to World This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/39-first-aid-and-safety/