Unit 5 First Aid Reading and Thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第二册

选择性必修二 Unit 5 It’s a great honour to save a life. ——Leigh Bardugo 救人一命，善莫大焉。 ——李·巴杜格 P. 50 1 Before you read, discuss these questions in groups 1 What first-aid techniques do you know of? 2 If someone you know suffered a burn, what would you do? 2 Look through the text and identify its style and language features. Then tick its text type from the list below. _____ advertisement _____ blog post _____ hospital leaflet _____ email _____ newspaper article _____ short story It depends on the kind of burn. All of the burns I've ever seen were fairly minor, so the best thing to do was to put it under cold running water to stop the burning. I know basically what to do if someone breaks a leg or gets a cut. The text type is a hospital leaflet. We know this because the passage is written in an objective informational style, and deals with a health issue, giving a detailed description of how to handle this problem. √ Text types advertisement — full of persuasive language and colourful descriptions, talks about the benefits of a product, uses the imperative to tell someone to buy something hospital leaflet — factual, informational, objective, gives a description of a medical problem, and tells how to deal with it, uses the imperative to give advice newspaper article — factual, informational, objective, answers the who, what, when, why, and how questions about a recent event blog post — blog stands for web log, so it is a kind of journal or diary, usually topical in nature, talking about something that is current or new in the life of the author or regarding the author's interests email — a kind of letter, it should have an opening and a closing like a letter, b