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RSHEMental wellbeing and getting help20 min★ difficulty

Basic first aid and emergencies

In an emergency, the person who knows three simple things is far more useful than the person who knows none. These are the three.

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Know basic first aid and how to get help in an emergency

Key learning points

  • • Call for help
  • • Unresponsive but breathing
  • • Bleeding, burns and choking

This lesson at a glance

  • 20 minutes
  • 16 parts to scroll through
  • 4 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

emergencyunresponsivebreathingbleedingchoking

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Basic first aid and emergencies

An English teaching video on this topic from ClickView. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

In a nutshell

Know basic first aid and how to get help in an emergency

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 · Call for help

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Call for help

Dial 999 for an ambulance, police, fire or coastguard, or 112, which also works. Give the location first — that is the one detail that lets help start moving. Stay on the line and do what the call handler says. 111 is for urgent but non-emergency medical advice.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Unresponsive but breathing

Check for danger before approaching, try to get a response, and open the airway. If they are breathing normally, place them on their side in the recovery position, tilt the head back slightly so the airway stays open, call 999 and stay with them.

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Quick check

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Quick check

What should you say first when calling 999?

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Quick check

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Quick check

What do you do for someone unresponsive but breathing normally?

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Reset break

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Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · Bleeding, burns and choking

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Bleeding, burns and choking

Heavy bleeding: press firmly on the wound with a cloth and keep pressing. Burns: cool under running water for at least twenty minutes and never apply creams or ice. Choking with no effective cough: five firm back blows between the shoulder blades, then five abdominal thrusts, alternating, while someone calls 999.

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Quick check

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Quick check

How should a burn be treated?

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Quick check

Part 11 of 16

Quick check

Which number gives urgent non-emergency medical advice?

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Explore the idea

Part 12 of 16

Worked example

Worked example: the order of actions

Someone collapses in a park. 1) Check it is safe to approach. 2) Try to get a response. 3) Check breathing. 4) Breathing — recovery position and call 999; not breathing — call 999 immediately and start chest compressions if you have been trained. Doing something imperfectly is better than doing nothing.

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Challenge round

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Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

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Challenge round

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Game · Fill the gaps

Finish the sentences

Choose the word that belongs in each gap.

111 is for urgent but non-____ medical advice.

If they are ____ normally, place them on their side in the recovery position, tilt the head back slightly so the airway stays open, call 999 and stay with them.

Heavy ____: press firmly on the wound with a cloth and keep pressing.

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Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Basic first aid and emergencies

4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. What should you say first when calling 999?

  2. 2. What do you do for someone unresponsive but breathing normally?

  3. 3. How should a burn be treated?

  4. 4. Which number gives urgent non-emergency medical advice?

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Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

Ready when you are

Quiz score

Not sat

Games

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Points this lesson

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Best run

0 in a row

Luna: 0 out of 4 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Case study

The group chat

Ellie is added to a class group chat with twenty-six people in it. At first it is jokes and homework questions. Then someone screenshots a private message from a girl in another class and posts it. Several people laugh. Two people leave the chat. Ellie says nothing, and feels bad about it that evening.

The next day the girl is off school. A teacher asks the class about the chat. Nobody wants to be the one who tells.

Staying silent can feel like the safest choice in the moment. It also leaves the person who was hurt on their own.

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Reading questions

  1. What choices did Ellie have at the moment the screenshot was posted?
  2. Who could she tell, and what would each of them be able to do?
  3. Write what you would do in this situation and why, in 6–8 sentences.

  • Thinking it through

    Writing

    Write what you would do in this situation, who you would ask, and why.

    6–8 sentences

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