Your Body Louise Spilsbury Introduction 1 Your Skin and Hair 2 Your Bones 3 Your Muscles 4 Your Eyes and Ears 10 5 Your Nose and Mouth 12 onRw 6 Your Brain 14 7 Getting Sick 16 8 Protect Your Body 18 Activities 20 Projects 36 Picture Dictionary 38 About Read and Discover 40 OXFORDcee Eo Introduction Your body is amazing! It helps you to walk, work, and play. It helps you to eat, read, listen, and learn. It’s important to protect your body. How does your body help you? How do you protect your body? oy Now read and discover more about your body!You have skin everywhere on your body. Your skin helps you to touch things. It helps you to know when things are hot or cold. Skin stops dirt getting into your body. It stops water getting into your body when it’s rainy and when you swim. Hair grows out of your skin. Hair on your arms and legs stands up when you’re cold. This stops your body getting too cold. Your skin makes sweat when you’re hot. This stops your body getting too hot. Protect your body! Wash every day, so you can get dirt and sweat off your skin and hair. Go to pages 20-21 for activities. A Ae 4) Your Bones ‘There are bones under your skin. These bones make your skeleton. Your skeleton helps you to stand up. There are joints in your skeleton, too. Bones meet at joints. Elbows and knees are joints. Joints help you to move. Knee joints help you to jump and kick. A baby has small bones. Bones grow and they make you big and tall. Your bones stop growing when you are about 20 years old. Then = there are 206 bones in your body! Cw Protect your bones! When you ride a skateboard, wear pads to protect your bones and joints. Wear a helmet to protect your head, too. Riding a Skateboard Go to pages for activities. YamaLI a Oru F ava sell es eo | Running, swimming, dancing, 1D and riding a bicycle are types of exercise. Exercise makes your / muscles, bones, and joints strong. Your heart is a type of muscle. Exercise makes your heart strong, too. Protect your body! Do exercise every day. What is your favorite type of exercise? What helps your bones and joints to walk, run, dance, and jump? Muscles! Muscles pull your bones to move your body. Muscles in your legs help you to ride a bicycle. Muscles in your arms help you to row a boat. There are more than 600 muscles in your body!Blinking Le Your Eyes and Ears Your eyes help you to see the world around you. They open and close many times every day. This is called blinking. When your eyes blink, they wash dirt out of your eyes. At night your eyes close so you can sleep. Your ears help <<) a ta you to listento music. They » help you to listen for cars in aii. the street. Your Ps) things when you =p ears can hear eS olm eles sleep, too! Protect your eyes and ears! On sunny days, wear sunglasses to protect your eyes. Don’t listen to very loud music — it’s bad for your ears. Protecting EyesYou breathe through your nose and mouth. Your nose and mouth take air into your body. You breathe about 15 times every minute. Your nose helps you to smell things. Your mouth helps you to talk and eat. Your teeth bite food so you can eat it. Your body uses food to live and grow. Protect your teeth! Brush your teeth after breakfast and after dinner, and don’t eat lots of candy. After exercise, people breathe fast. They can breathe 40 times every minute! Go to pages 28-29 for activities.6, Do you know how you read these words? Your brain tells you what your eyes see! Your brain tells you what you see, hear, and touch. It tells your muscles when to move. It helps you to write, speak, draw, and do puzzles. Your brain is amazing! Your brain works all day and at night when you sleep! At night it makes you breathe and it makes your heart work. At night your brain helps you to remember things that you learn in the day. Protect your brain! Wear a helmet when you ride a bicycle. Go to pages 30-31 for activities. JeyDo you get sick? Germs are things that can make you sick. Germs can get in your body when you breathe and when you eat. Germs can get in your mouth from your fingers, too. Some germs get in your body when | you get a cut in your skin. Wash your hands with soap and. water to get germs off your fingers. Wash your hands when it’s time to eat, after you go to the toilet, after you touch animals, and after you play outside. Stop germs! There are germs in a sneeze. Catch sneezes in a tissue. Then throw the tissue ina wastebasket. Go to pages 32-33 for activities.fey) There’s lots of water in your body. oy You lose water when you go to the toilet and when your body makes Eat food that’s good for you. Good | food helps your bones to grow. It } makes you strong, and it stops you getting sick. sweat. Drink water every day to protect your body. Go to the doctor when you get sick, and go to the dentist every year. Do exercise every day. It’s good to do exercise and it makes you happy. It’s good to sleep when you are tired, too. It’s important to protect your body. Go to pages 34—35 for activities.Your Skin and Hair 3 Write true PB isise. [ Read 1 Hair grows out of your skin. _true_ a 2. Hair on your arms and legs stands | 1 Write the words. sweat skin hair dirt up when you're hot. — § 3 Hair stops your body getting too cold. estes 4 Your skin makes sweat when you're cold. e 5 Sweat stops your body getting too hot. 4 Answer the questions. 2 Complete the sentences. 1 How does your skin help you? Your skin helps you to touch things, and to_Know when things are hot or cold. 2 How does your hair help you? dirt cold touch water body 1 You have skin everywhere on your _ body 2 Your skin helps you to things. 3 It helps you to know when things are hot or — °° 4 Skin stops getting into your body. 3 Howcan you protect your skin and hair? 5 Itstops _ getting into your body when it’s rainy. a ————zX___.3 Match. Then write the sentences. € Read pages 6-7. 1 Find and write the words. 1 _A baby has small bones. 2 3 A Circle the odd one out. 1 skin bones 2 joints bones under 3 elbows you knees 4 small bones body 1 Muscles make your skeleton. 5 joints bones tall 2 Your skin / skeleton helps you to stand up. 6 pads skateboard wear 3 Elbows and knees are skeletons / joints. 4 Bones / Knees meet at joints.Your Muscles 3 Write the words. -€ Read pages 8-9. 1 Order the words. af bones. / your / Muscles / pull Muscles pull your bones. ce dancing 2 help / Muscles / you /a bicycle. / to ride 3 a boat. / Muscles / you / help / to row oo. 4 in / 600 / There / body. / more than/ are / your / muscles 4 Answer the questions. 1 How can you protect your body? 2 Find and write the words, joi 2 Is the heart a type of joint? Qusclesarmn ste gpr0relIMtsbog, 3 What makes your heart strong? 1 _muscles 3 4 What is your favorite type of exercise?€ Read pages 10-11. 1 Match. Then write the sentences. A) Your Pe ae Pa 3 Circle the correct words. 1 Your ears help you to see / listen to music. 2 Your ears help you to listen for / move cars in the street. Your ears / eyes can hear things when you w close many times Your eyes help you every) dau Z —, music is good / bad f areqepenand to see the world ery loud music is good / bad for your ears. Whentiour bli around you. a. /hen your eyes blink, they wash dirt out 4 Order the letters and write the words. of your eyes. Then write the secret word. 1 See 1 stlien > 2 2 uSmic 2 fl T_T} 3 nUsny Be eee Teer TnnT TUTTI THUMM TUTTE 4 kinglinb 4> 5 udlo 2 Answer the questions, 6 reha o> f 7 wSha eo 1 How many times do you blink every minute? 8 esye > sree eee Ee 9 cSelo o> 2 How d | pisare ad © your eyes help you to sleep? The secret word is: 3 How can you protect your eyes? I3 Write true or false. Mail — and Mout! 1 Your nose helps you to talk and eat. 2 Your teeth smell food. 1 Complete the sentences. 3 Your body uses food to live and grow. 4 Brush your teeth to protect them. 5) € Read pages 12-13. food nose breathe 1 Your helps you to smell things. 4 Complete the puzzle. 2 Your teeth bite so you can eat it. 3 You through your nose and mout! 2 Match. Then write the sentences. ° 1y | After exercise air into your body. s Your nose and 15 times every 2 3+ _|m mouth take minute. a> - People breathe 40 times every pe After exercise minute. a people can breathe people breathe fast.i th rds. ‘6) Your Brain 3 Order the wo! 1 and at night. / Your brain / works all day Read pages 14-15, brain eyes al Ik 1 Write the words. muscles read “sped 3 makes / At night / your heart / your brain / a work. 4 remembers things / that you Learn. / Your a See eee ere rH 3 e - wy, brain ieee 6 2. your brain / you breathe. / At night / makes 5 a bicycle. / when you ride / Wear a helmet 2 Circle the correct words. Gircle the oddone out: 1 Your brain tells you what your eyes hear /see. 1 brain eyes day : bi . 2 Your brain / nose tells you what you see, 2 jgucle hand brain hear, and touch. 3 day night work 3 Your brain tells your muscles when to 4 hot brain heart move / smell. 5 muscles learn read 4 Your brain / foot helps you to write and speak 6 helmet bicycle eyesa _ a (7) Getting Sick 3 Complete the sentences. 1 Washhands with __ and water to get germs off Pere eee ae your _: € Read pages 16-17. deat 1 Find and write the words. 2 5 flijn{[gle[r[s]ilr 2 ee x|q/b/rjela/t|h{e 4m 2 It’s good to wash your slilcik/riq|pjo|l 5 q Va when it’s time z|rjulmjoju|t{h|x 7 che to and after you migie|r|m|s|clult se go to the toilet. s|k|i[n[c/s|r|tl|w Ts mljijnj/i}tjolujcth 8 t 2 Circle the correct words. 3 Washihands after you B Germs are things that can make you sick / happy. Germs can get in your body when you breathe / touch. Germs can get in your body when you eat / see. 4 Germs can get in your mouth on your a ma 5 Catch sneezes ina fingers / toes. wv . Then throw the Germs get in your body / bad when you | Tissite In a _ . get a cut in your skin. N 4 There are germs ina w uwProtect Your Body € Read pages 18-19. water grow sleep 1 Write the words. food protect strong 2 Answer the questions. 1 What food is good for you? 2 How does good food help your bones? 3 What is your favorite food? 3 Match. Then write the sentences. | ‘There’s lots of every day. You lose water water when your body Patilose makes sweat. Beinicwater when you go to the toilet. | water in your body. | a =| EEE Eee ee cree ree EEE PEE Pee Eee eee EEE #easssaslaasSsusdsStaOEEE Bee eee ee eee 4 Complete the sentences. doctor water dentist exercise sleep food 1 Eat______that’s good for you. 2 Drink _ every day. 3 Gotothe__——_s when you get sick. 4 Gotothe every year. 5 Do_—__every day. 6 It’s good to when you are tired.©) Ant kare Groph 1 Ask four friends what exercise they do. Complete the chart. ae & W@) My Body F Poster 1 Choose a part of the body. Write notes and complete the diagram. What is it? (icine Do you... Friend 1 | Friend 2 | Friend 3 | Friend 4) swim? dance? run? walk? Peach ride a bicycle? I ridea skateboard? 2 Drawa graph. [tee Geen 2 Find or draw pictures of the part of the body. Make a poster. swimming dancing running walking —ridinga_—_ridingo bicycle skateboard 3 Display your poster.Picture Dictionary Se Se +4 around bite blink body loud minute muscles protect i bone brain breathe cu pull remember skeleton skin +S “eS dirt exercise fast smell sneeze soap street joints lose strong sunglasses sweat worldOC MLM hc ie Series Editor: Hazel Geatches + CLIL Adviser: John Clegg Oxford Read and Discover graded readers are at six levels, for students from age 6 and older. They cover many topics within three subject areas, and support English across the curriculum, or Content and Language Integrated Learning ICLIL). 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