Intro
1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.
2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
You’re cooking dinner for friends and cut your finger with a knife. It’s not serious, but it’s bleeding and it’s important to be hygienic. All you need is a band-aid, but even if you have one, it’s probably in the back of the medicine cabinet. There’s nothing within reach in the kitchen. You can’t believe you don’t have a first aid kit in the house!
It’s not the law to have first aid kits in homes, but maybe it should be. Think about it: Headache? Here’s some aspirin in your first aid kit. Something stuck in your hand? Use these tweezers. Cut yourself? There are band-aids of all shapes and sizes. You can even put a kit together by yourself. If you think about it, it’s pretty smart to keep everything in the same place.
Find out what Devan has to tell Jeff about a time she wished she had a first aid kit in this lesson about good health.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Devan: So, the other day, this customer came into my work. And he slipped and fell, and cut his head, and I went to the back and realized that we don’t have a first aid kit at our work.
Jeff: Even if you did, do you know how to treat first aid situations? A situation that would require that kind of stuff?
Devan: I’ve never taken a CPR class or anything like that. Have you?
Jeff: I have several times. They make you renew your deal. But yeah, that was years ago.
Devan: Did you find it very helpful when you took it?
Jeff: In a way. I was certified. But I think if you ever end up in one of those situations, it becomes kind of an entirely different thing. But it does help to be trained.
Devan: So, have you ever ended up in a situation where you had to put your knowledge to use?
Jeff: I haven’t, fortunately. But I had co-workers who did. One guy saved a toddler from drowning in front of his mom.
Devan: Wow.
Jeff: Luckily it worked. He’s now a hero.
Devan: OK, it’s official. I’m going to go sign up tomorrow.
Jeff: You should do it. You’ve got a good heart.
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Discussion
Devan tells Jeff about an experience she recently had at work. A customer fell and got hurt, but she discovered that there was no first aid kit in the store. It’s obvious that Devan thinks that’s wrong, but she also admits that she hasn’t had any training to take care of people in those situations, anyway.
Jeff has taken many classes to learn CPR, but he’s never had to use it on a person. He thinks it’s important information to have, but Jeff believes that knowing how to do it and actually doing it are very different things. He had a co-worker once who had to use CPR on a child and it’s obvious that Jeff has a lot of respect for his friend’s actions.
Have you ever been in a situation when you had to use a first aid kit on someone, or use CPR to help someone who wasn’t breathing? How did it make you feel? Would you ever take a class to learn how to help other people in a crisis?
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