Aprenda Inglês enquanto você descobre mais sobre a vida dentro do nosso corpo. Atividade feita pela professora Rita Grazina

Estuda medicina, enfermagem ou alguma outra carreira da área da saúde e precisa aprender inglês? Ou, quem sabe você tem curiosidade por saber mais sobre como funciona o nosso corpo e está aprendendo inglês?

Essa atividade é pra você! A professora Rita Grazina criou este exercício baseado em um vídeo de um programa da National Geographic que nos mostra como nosso corpo funciona por dentro. Tem até uma palavra cruzada! Você não vai perder, né?! É só continuar lendo!

Inside the living body

Watch the video and answer the following questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbvPBc4GawM

1. True or false?
1. The cells are the building blocks of our bodies.
2. Inside each cell, there is a distinct extraordinary engine.
3. DNA is unique to any cell.

2. Answer the questions.
1. What’s the first challenge that a baby faces?
2. What do adrenal glands send around the body?
3. How many alveoli do we have in our lungs?

3. Choose the correct option.
1. At the moment of birth:
1. the physical linl between mother and baby is broken.
2. almost every organ needs to adapt to life outside the womb.
3. the heart starts to beat.
2. The digestive system:
1. is full due to the baby’s first meal.
2. has meconium which is corrosive and can harm the gut.
3. flushes meconium out within days.
3. The area that controls temperature:
1. sends our brain information to produce more or less energy when we feel too cold or hot.
2. is imature at birth.
3. is called hippocampus.

The Body

- Vocabulary -

Across

3. the part of your body where your hand joins your arm

4. the front part of your face below your mouth

5. the bones of a person's or animal's head

6. one of the two organs in your lower back that separate waste products from your blood and make urine

9. the soft part inside your mouth that you can move about and use for eating and speaking

13. the small round mark in the middle of your stomach (informal for navel)

14. the round coloured part of your eye, that surrounds the black pupil

15. the organ in your chest which pumps blood through your body

16. the joint between your foot and your leg

18. one of the five movable parts at the end of your foot [↪ finger]

Down

1. organs in your body that you breathe with

2. the organ inside your head that controls how you think, feel, and move

4. the part of the back of your leg between your knee and your ankle

5. one of the two parts of the body at each side of the neck where the arm is connected

7. the line of hair above your eye

8. one of the 12 pairs of curved bones that surround your chest

10. areas of firm pink flesh at the top and bottom of your mouth, in which your teeth are fixed

11. the organ inside your body where food begins to be digested

12. the part of your face above your eyes and below your hair

17. the joint that bends in the middle of your leg

Answer Key