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First aid
head

chest elbow
eye
back

hand
finger
knee
thumb

foot
ankle

Vocabulary H j ^ x H Listen to six conversations about injuries on site and match 1-6 to a-f
to complete the sentences.
1 He sprained a) his arm.
2 He broke b) his back.
3 He b u r n t c) her finger.
4 He h u r t d) his hand.
5 She cut e) his ankle.
6 The pallet crushed f) his knee.
L a n g u a g e

P a s t s i m p l e : be
We use the past simple of be to talk about the past. 1/He/She/It was/wasn't In the site manager's office yesterday.
We/You/They were/weren't here this morning.

P a s t s i m p l e
We use the p a s t s i m p l e to talk about actions and situations that started and finished in the past.
To form the past simple of regular verbs, we add -ed to the verb. / sprained my ankle.
The pallet crushed his hand.
Some verbs do not form the past simple with -ed.They are irregular He fell off the scaffolding, (fall •> fell)
(e.g. go > went, buy • bought, meet -* met, etc.). He broke his arm. (break -> broke)

2 Read this extract from an accident report and underline the verbs in the past
simple. W h i c h verbs are regular?

ACCIDENT REPORT

Name: Michel Kempinski Date: 7th November Location: Mill Street
' RB Johnson
T h i ' i -n Construction
Description Of incident: 1 was in the site manager s Of fee yesterday. I here
was a problem with some waste management paperwork^. The site manager told me to
cheeky the skjps in the gard. I counted the skips and found there were Onlg six, not eight.
Then I saw the accident. Warrg tried to lift a skip wrt-h his Crane. The load was too heavg
and the Crane tipped over. t Crashed into the scaffolding that we erected gesterdag.
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Four men were hurt. We called the emergenCg services. Theg sent twO ambulances.

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