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UNIT 1 TEMPERATURE

PRE-READING ACTIVITY

Can you guess how these words are used in the text?

thermometer forehead
chills take the temperature
fever rise

Temperature

1 It is often wise to take a sick person’s temperature, even if he does not see to have a fever. If the
person is very sick, take the temperature at least 4 times each day and write it down .
If there is no thermometer, you can get an idea of the temperature by putting the back of one hand
on the sick person’s forehead and the other on your own or that of another healthy person. If the
5 sick person has a fever, you should feel the difference.
It is important to find out when and how the fever comes, how long it lasts, and how it goes away.
This may help you identify the disease.
For example:
● Malaria usually causes attacks of a high fever that begin with chills,
last a few hours, and come back every 2 or 3 days.
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● Typhoid causes a fever that rises a little more every day.
● Tuberculosis sometimes causes a mild fever in the afternoon. At night
the person often sweats, and the fever goes down.

Note: In newborn babies a temperature that is unusually high or unusually low (below 36 ) may mean
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a serious infection.

Studying how words are formed

Find the word “ forehead” in line 5. Can you see the two parts to this word.

You know the word “head”. Can you say what the prefix “fore” means?

Form new words by adding this prefix to the bases below.
Take care! Some of the words below will not accept “fore”.
Toe foot see
Leg cast finger
warn know tooth
Can you use all the new words you have made to describe humans?

Identifying word types

Line 1 - wise Line 9 - attacks
Line 6 - lasts Line 12 - mild

Line 7 - identify
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