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STUDENTS’ WORKSHEETS

HUMAN
BODY
 Joints, bones and muscles

 Systems of the body: respiratory, digestive and nervous

 A healthy body: food types,sport,taking care of your body

NAME:

AGE-GROUP:

DATE:

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Joints are the places where two bones join together

There are three types of joints :

fixed (skull) – gliding (vertebrae) – movable (knee,elbow,wrist...)

Joints allow movement

Ligaments connect bones in a joint

MOVEMENT
In the picture we can see a pair of antagonist muscles, when one is contracted, the
other one is relaxed. That is possible thanks to the elbow, a movable joint.

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ACTIVITY 1:

Complete the graph with the names of joints Any questions? Hands up!!

ACTIVITY 2:

Write 5 correct sentences using the table below

The knee They have a

The skull Fixed limited range of
The elbow Is movement
The neck Movable BECAUSE
The shoulder Are It/they can move
The vertebrae freely
The wrists Gliding
It can’t move

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ACTIVITY 3:

Ask and answer questions with your partner about joints

a) Where is / are the........?

b) What type of joint is this?

c) Can you move it?

d) What muscles are involved?

e) Think of 3 other joints in your mother tongue and look them up in a dictionary,
share these with your partner

 If you need them, use these structures:

a) Here is the… I’m touching my… This joint is…

b) It is fixed because....I can move it so… I’m not sure/ I don’t know

c) Yes / No / only a bit

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We all have skeletons inside our body: that makes us vertebrates.

The skeleton has 3 main functions:

 It protects important parts of the body: the skull protects your brain
 It lets you move

 It Supports you body and keeps itupright by holding the different body
parts in place
Don’t worry,
that’s not
mine!!

Skull Humerus
backbone Shoulder
blade
Ribs

pelvis Radius

Ulna
Femur

Tibia
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More about bones:

- The body has a total of 206 bones, 29 of them in the head

- The smallest bone is in your ear and the longest...yes! the femur
- Some people have 11 or 13 pairs of ribs instead of 12
- Bone or joints can be substituded with artificial ones: protheses
- Bones change with age, when you’re a baby they bend rather
than snap, later they become stiff so they crack rather than bend.

ACTIVITY 1:

Complete the chart of the skeleton with the following bones:

Skull, shoulder blade, ribs, humerus, radius, pelvis, femur, tibia and backbone

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ACTIVITY 2:

Fill in the gaps.

Version A

The skeleton has 3 . The protects the brain and it also

helps you stand . The bone in the body is the femur and

we have 206 in our .

Upright - functions - bodies – skull - longest -

bones

Version B

We have 12 pairs of . They protect the and lungs.

The bone is in our ear.

Baby’s are ( 2 words ) than adult’s.

The is longer than the .

ACTIVITY 3:

Review and locate with a partner the names of bones studied

Make comparisons between them
Ask and answer questions

 Use these structures:

The skull protects .....

Which bone is it ? ( pointing...) , point to your...
Where’s the.......?
The radius is shorter than...... The femur is longer than........

Some students will answer questions about bones in front of the group ...
so keep reviewing!!

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Every action you do is carried out by a muscle.

We have about 640 in the body

As we have seen with joints they change in lenght, when contracted they get
shorter and thicker, and when relaxed they get longer .

The muscular system:

 It enables us to move ( as the skeleton)

 It gives the body shape

 It protects some important organs such as the liver

trapezius
Face muscles

triceps

chest shoulder biceps

abdominals

back

quadriceps
gluteus
Femoral biceps

calves

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More about muscles:

- The biggest muscle is not the biceps is the gluteus

maximus, and you know where to find it...yes, there!!
- Muscles don’t push, they can only pull or contract
- Muscles make up about two-fifths of the body’s total weight
- Larger and stronger muscles are a result of regular exercise and
physical activities.

ACTIVITY 1:

Complete this mind map about muscles, bones, joints or other .

Bones Other

The Human Body

Muscles Joints

Humerus - Liver – Triceps – calves – elbow – pelvis –

brain- chest knee – abdominals –
wrist

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ACTIVITY 2:

Locate the following muscles and say if they are on the:

ARM LEG UPPER BODY

Calves : Shoulders:

Chest : Quadriceps:

Triceps: Abdominals:

ACTIVITY 3:

Follow activity 2 orally with your partner

 Use these structures

The biceps is in the ...

Can you touch your....?
Flex your ......
Point to your....
Here, I have my....
When I play tennis, I use ....

ACTIVITY 4: Revision Lessons 1-2-3

Read the sentences carefully and write true (T) or false (F)

 We have 206 muscles in our bodies

 We can find the calves on the upper body

 The brain is an organ, not a muscle

 The elbow is a gliding joint

 The skeleton supports your body

 Our muscles make-up 10% of our body weight

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The RESPIRATORY SYSTEM is made up of these main parts:

Nasal cavity – oral cavity – trachea – lungs and diaphragm

Nasal cavity

Oral cavity Trachea

Tongue

Right lung
Left lung

Diaphragm

Breathing is with the heartbeat, the body’s most essencial activity

We breathe with our lungs. When we breathe in, we take oxygen from the air and
we breathe out oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Oxygen Carbon dioxide

Oxygen

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Facts about breathing:

- Even when you sleep, you breathe every 4 seconds

- After much exercise, you breathe as fast as once each second
- Yawning happens when the body has been still for a while, so
more oxygen is needed
- There’s always around half litre of air in your lungs

ACTIVITY 1:

Complete the text with the words given:

When breathing , we take oxygen from the . This oxygen goes

to our and distributed around the body. Then we breathe and

we expirate .

Out – lungs – carbon dioxide – air –

ACTIVITY 2 : in
Label the picture with the different parts of the respiratoty system

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ACTIVITY 3:

Divide into 3 groups of 3-5 students

The teacher is going to assign an area of discussion, try to speak with your
partners for 2-3 minutes.
Not another boring science less
Areas for discussion:

 Smoking and the respiratory system

 Exercise and breathing

 Asking and answering questions to your partners

 Use these structures:

When you smoke, you breath in …

Smoking is ….. for your lungs

When you exercise, you breathing goes …..

Your lungs breath faster when …….

Why is breathing essencial?

How many times do you breath in a minute? And in an hour? In a full day?
When do you yawn? When I’m ……
Is breathing involuntary?

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and drink

The body needs food

Food contains many substances that help the body grow and repair
Drink is needed to replenish the supply of water in the blood.

Parts of the digestive system:

Salivary glands

Mouth

Throat

Liver Stomach

Large intestine

Small intestine

Rectum

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Timeline of digestion:

O hours: food is chewed and swallowed

1 hour: food is mixed with acids in the stomach

4 hours: food has left the stomach and passed to the small intestine

10 hours: leftovers begin to collect in the last part of the system

16-20 hours: faeces pass through the anus and out of the body

ACTIVITY 1:

Fill in the gaps:

Version A

My teeth break the into small pieces. The food is mixed with

in my . Food goes down the and mixes with

in the stomach. Nutrients in the food pass from the into

my blood. Finally, food that can’t be digested comes out of my body when I go

to the

Intestines – saliva – toilet – juices – food – mouth – throat .

Version B

The body needs to breathe fresh every few seconds, but it cannot live

of it alone. The body food which contain used to help the

body . Drink is needed to fill up the supply of in the

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ACTIVITY 2:
Match Column A with Column B, if possible add more examples

A B

 The longest part of the body is

 The liver makes
 Most food has passed to the small intestine
 We need to eat






BLESS YOU!!!!!!

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ACTIVITY 3:

Work with a partner:

Ask and answer questions about the digestive system: parts, location, timeline,
facts...

Discuss the importance of a good intake of food, digestion, resting...

Use these structures:

 Where’s your stomach? / Point to your throat / Can you find your...?
 Is the heart part of the digestve system?
 Within 1 hour, food is ... within 20 hours ...

 Food and water are important for...

 We need to eat and drink because ...
 The stomach does...
 When we are digesting food, blood is ...

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 The nervous system sends millions of signals along the nerves.

 Nerves can go as fast as 100 m/sec
 Information is passed by the neurotransmitters,they communicate nerve cells
 There is a part that controls the others: the brain

Brain Cerebellum

Cervical nerves

Spinal nerve

Sciatic nerve

I don’t think so!!

More Brain facts:

The left part of the brain is good at language and maths and the right at
art and music

Your brain keeps working when you are sleeping, so the heart keeps beating
and the lungs breathing

An average brain weighs about 1.4 kgs and men have larger brains than
women but that doesn’t mean they are more intelligent...are they??

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ACTIVITY 1:

Complete the chart as in the example:

 You touch a very hot object

1.Nerves at your finger sense the hot object

2.Brain receive and then send signals

3.You withdraw the hand almost inme

 A ball is coming to your face

1.

Your brain sends signals back: close your eyes and raise your hands
3.
2.
Your sight ( visual nerves ) see the ball and sends signals to the brain

You close your eyes but also try to avoid the impact by raising your hands

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ACTIVITY 2:

Match these concepts with its definition

Spinal nerve
Is the organ that controls the rest

Cervical nerve
It’s the main nerve linking the body and the brain

Brain Organ that breaks down food

Nerves close to the brain located in the neck and

Stomach arms

ACTIVITY 3:

A) With your partner find more examples as in activity 1 and follow the
steps that the nervous system does.

B) Ask and answer questions about the nervous system

Use these structures:

 How fast do nerves work?

 How does the brain communicate with nerves located in the leg?
 The brain is the most important organ because...
 We remove the hand when touching something hot because...

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ACTIVITY 4 : Revision lessons 4-5-6

Relate the image to the its correct system:

Digestive -- Respiratory --

All this science makes me sooooo hungry!!

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There are food types:

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: Is absolutely vital for us. 65% of our body is water!!

: found in vegetables, bread and rice it helps our digestion

: Substances found in food, necessary for growing and

staying healthy.

: Same as vitamins, they help your body develop

: The building blocks of our body

: Also known as lipids, vital for various metabolic

functions

: Your body’s favourite ‘fuel’.

Another way of organizing food is with the food pyramid:

On top of the pyramid we find fats and sugars, to be eaten
once a week

Then we find food that should be eaten every 2-3 days.

At the base of the pyramid we found the food that should be

eaten daily

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Vitamins and minerals can be found in food and are important

for a huge amount of processes and functions. Look at the table:

VITAMIN FOOD where you

MINERA can find it
IMPORTANT
for
L
Eyes, skin and inmune
Vitamin A Milk, carrots and broccoli
system
Milk, and sun... yes!!
Vitamin D Teeth and bones

Vitamin E Oil and brown rice antioxidation

Vitamin K Liver and green vegetables Blood clotting

Reducing the effects of a

Vitamin C Citrus fruits, strawberries
cold, antioxidant
Vitamins B Meat, tuna, chicken, mushrooms, Protein and carbohydrate
spinach, peanuts, legumes, metabolism, nerve and brain
(B1,2,3,5,6,12) whole grain cereals function

Calcium Milk, yoghurt and cheese Strong bones and teeth

Meats and liver
Iron Making hemoglobin

Magnesi Spinach, broccoli, tofu and

Releasing energy
popcorn!
um
Potassiu Peanuts, bananas and green
Fluid balance
beans
m
Zinc Growing, digestion and
Turkey and peanuts
metabolism

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Facts about food and diet:

- The contents of the food are measured by Kcal ( calories );

a child aged 6-10 needs 1800 calories per day,
a women 2000 and a man 2500 .
- Taking into account the previous figures, we should eat 55
grams of protein, 230 of carbohydrates, 70 of fat and 24 of
fibre every day.
- Eating less than 1200 calories a day is negative for our
development, but eating more than 3000 is also potentially
dangerous.

Example of daily meals:

BREAKFAST:
Glass of milk with 4 biscuits 400 cal.
Banana- apple or pear

MID-MORNING
Small juice 250
Small sandwich with salami – ham – cheese ( playground break ) cal.

LUNCH: 800
Pasta – Rice – Pulses – Salad - Vegetables cal.
Meat - Fish
Yoghurt, fruit, 2 slices of bread

AFTERNOON SNACK: 150 cal.

Bread and chocolate – nuts – cereal bar

DINNER: 400
Vegetables - salad cal.
Fish and Yoghurt and fruit

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Discuss the following diet with your group and decide if it’s balanced:

Use the following criteria:

 This meal is balanced because it has the right amount of ....

 This meal has too much protein
 In this meal there is a lack of vitamins / It is incomplete because ....
 The diet has too many calories / the right amount / too few

The average science teacher diet

BREAKFAST AFTERNOON SNACK
2 toasts with ham – salami – turkey Glass of milk
A glass of juice Small sandwich
1 yoghurt
4 biscuits ( ok!, chocolate ones sometimes!)

MID-MORNING DINNER
Cereal bar Bowl of salad
100 grs of fish
LUNCH 1 apple - pear
100 grs of pasta –pulses – vegetables – rice
125 grs of red meat – chicken – turkey
1 yoghurt and 2 slices of bread
1 apple – pear - banana

Now, complete or discuss these sentences:

 Having a glass of milk or a yoghurt in the morning contains the mineral......

 Where can you find vitamins in lunch? And in the dinner?

 Is it important to eat some fats? Do you find them in the diet?

 How many calories should a woman eat daily? And a man?

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ACTIVITY 2:

Look for the following words in this wordsearch:

PROTEIN – VITAMIN C – FISH – CALORIE –

A E S L I F MPEARA C H I N E F

H GFIBRE
S –C CALCIUM
O O –L MEAT
E –R BREAD
T H- ZINC
E V I

O X A A A L N P A R S A B S

E I U L F L S D C T N O N H

A D R C A S O U P A Z C F V

E R B I F X S R N H W O O I

Q U S U T I Y A I R Y N R T

W H I M E A B B R E A D O R

V B O N O Z F R E A K E O E

C H H E K Z S L N T Y S P T

V I T A M I N C N I Z E R A

R A G S E P N I F T I V N W

K E H T P R O T E I N J U P

Look for more ‘secret’ words related to food... or not!!

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ACTIVITY 3:

Put the following items of food into the correct category

CHICKEN – BREAD – PASTA – OIL –

BUTTER -APPLE

EGGS – WATER – RICE – COLA – FISH -

SALAD

CARBOHYDRATES
PROTEIN FATS DRINKS

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So,finally,the last lesson, and yes... it’s sports!!

Let’s remember some of them:

5 people play on each team, don’t run without bouncing the ball, it’s......
In this sport we use a ball and a net which is higher than tennis nets,
it’s......

Eagle, Birdie, hole in one... green grass, clubs.... yes, it’s....

This sport was invented in England, and perfected by players such as
Pelé, Di Stefano, Cruyff, Maradona and more recently Ronaldo,
Ronaldinho, Leo Messi or Kaká, of course you know, it’s .........

So far, so good. . .but do you know the name of these sports??

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But not everything is sports, there are many other leisure activities
you can practise in order to stay active:

Playing outdoors with friends or family is a great way to stay

active

A park is like a playground, you can get all the exercise

you need. Swing, climb, run about... have fun!

You can practise a martial art: judo, karate, tae-kwon-do and

mugendo are the most popular

After so much activity it is always advisable to sit down, rest, and

Appart from doing your homework , there are other

healthy habits: Ha, ha,
sooooo
 Sleep 9-10 hours per day funny!!!!

 Brush your teeth 3 times a day, and a mouthwash once a day

 Have a shower each and every day
 If you feel tired, ill , or have an injury… rest!
 Be sensible, eat a balanced diet and feel happy about who you are.
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There are other other things to avoid, and these are called health risks

 Smoking is very bad for your health, so please don’t smoke

 Watching TV long hours every day, it’s fun to watch some

programmes but it’s not good to sit in front of it many hours a day.

 Alcohol affects your brain and in the long term you can damage your
liver, please be sensible with alcohol

 Avoid drugs, they can be very dangerous to your health in many different
ways

 Take proper care of your body, wash your hands often,dress your
small wounds, rest when injured playing any sport, don’t force the body too much
and stay safe in everyday situations.

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ACTIVITY 1:

Read and answer the questions. Look for your score because here comes the...

1. How often do you eat vegetables?

A. never B.sometimes C.often D.always

2. Do you sleep 8-10 hours a day?

A. never B.sometimes C.often D.always

3. How often do you play sports?

A. never B.sometimes C.often D.always

4. Do you brush your teeth after a meal?

A. never B.sometimes C.often D.always

5. Do you wash your hands before a meal?

A. never B.sometimes C.often D.always

6. How often do you have a bath or a shower?

A. never B.sometimes C.often D.always

7. How often do you walk to school?

A. never B.sometimes C.often D.always

8. How often do you listen to your science lessons?

A. never B.sometimes C.often D.always

Ask your teacher for the scores.

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ACTIVITY 2:

Set up in groups of 3-4.

Your teacher will give you 2 topics to choose from:

Healthy habits

Avoiding health risks

Think of a list of any of them and start planning a display using real pictures,
drawings, felt tip pens, markers...

You can start your work in the class but the display should be finished as ...
yes, your favourite healthy habit, HOMEWORK!!

I hope you learned a lot of things abou

bye, bye!!

Have fun with the unit, I really hope you enjoy it! Francesc Niella, Nottingham, March 2008

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