General English Level 1 V 3
UNIT 05 Keeping well TOPIC 02 What happened?
VOCABULARY 04 Injuries
Nat and Ben say
Nat:
What happened to your leg?
Ben:
Oh, I hurt my ankle.
Nat: Did you break it?
Ben: No I sprained it. It's really painful.

Ben and Nat talk about Ben's ankle. Breaks and sprains are injuries. Ben injured his ankle.

bone muscle skin

1 Read the examples.
2 Click on each example to listen.
3 Practise saying each example.
We break bones.

We say:
We sprain muscles.

We say:
We strain or pull muscles.

We say:
We cut , scratch , bruise and burn skin.

We say:


We can also say:
I have a cut on my arm.
I cut my leg.
I have a cut on my leg.

We say:


We can also say:
I have a scratch on my arm.
I scratched my neck.
We say:
I bruised my leg.I have a bruise on my arm.

We can also say:
I have a bruise on my leg.
I bruised my arm.
I burnt my hand.


I burnt my foot.

Now go to 05 VOCABULARY Injuries - task.