Girl Saves Her Best Friend

Skim the text and find out what it is about. Girl Saves Her A ten-year old girl is being called a hero after she saved her best friend’s life with the Heimlich manoeuvre.

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decided bestemte NEWCASTLE / BY MARY ROBERTS The two girls were hanging out at Amanda Thompson’s home when Jennifer decided to crack some jokes. It might have been a little too much for her best friend Amanda, who was eating a carrot. “We had just finished one of our assignments for school and I made her laugh with one of my jokes,” Jennifer says. Jennifer says that

when her friend started choking and gasping for air, she got behind her and used the lifesaving technique. “I was just so scared, and in the beginning I didn’t know what to do. Then I remembered crack some jokes fortelle something that I had noen vitser seen on TV, so I tried assignments oppgaver choking kveles the Heimlich gasping for air gispet etter manoeuvre on her.” luft The girl was lifesaving livreddende honoured with an technique teknikk award for courage at honoured hedret her school and she

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After reading a What can we learn from this text? b What could have Jennifer shows how she did the Heimlich manoeuvre.

happened if Jennifer hadn’t known the has been teaching Heimlich everyone she knows manoeuvre? how to do it. c What could Jennifer “Anyone can and have done instead of the Heimlich manoeuvre?

Vurderingseksemplar should learn it – even 4 year olds,” Jennifer says.