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WORKSHEET 1
TABLE
TABLE 1
Organs and body parts
(WHICH?)
Functions
(WHAT?)
Location
(WHERE?)
carries oxygen, carbon
dioxide, food and waste
around the body.
Heart
to the arteries.
Blood vessels
to and from all the organs.
carry blood
Veins
from the heart to the organs.
carry blood
Capillaries
to and from cells.
TABLE 2
Organs and body parts
(WHICH?)
Functions
(WHAT?)
Blood
around the body.
pumps the blood
Blood vessels
Arteries
Location
(WHERE?)
to the arteries.
to and from all the organs.
carry blood
carry blood
from the organs to the heart.
exchange oxygen and
carbon dioxide
to and from cells
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WORKSHEET 1
TABLE
FULL TABLE FOR THE TEACHER
Read the text “Arteries, capillaries and veins”
(see http://www.davincialba.it/didattica/Blood_runs/testi/Arteries,%20capillaries,%20veins.htm ) and fill
in the table below:
Organs and body parts
(WHICH?)
Functions
(WHAT?)
Location
(WHERE?)
blood
around the body.
Heart
carries oxygen, carbon
dioxide, food and waste
pumps the blood
Blood vessels
carry blood
to and from all the organs.
Arteries
carry blood
from the heart to the organs.
Veins
carry blood
from the organs to the heart.
Capillaries
exchange oxygen and
carbon dioxide
to and from cells.
to the arteries.
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WORKSHEET 2
BROKEN SENTENCES
1 – Your heart and blood vessels
are called capillaries
2 – At the centre of your blood system carry blood back to the heart
3 – The job of your heart
carry blood away from the heart
4 – Blood vessels are tubes
they branch many times
5 – There are two main types of blood to form veins
vessels:
6 – Arteries are vessels which
is your heart
7 – When arteries get to an organ
make up your blood system
8 – The smallest branches
is like the one of a pump
9 – The capillaries then join up
arteries and veins
10 – Veins are vessels which
where blood runs
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WORKSHEET 2
BROKEN SENTENCES
RIGHT SENTENCES FOR THE TEACHER
Read the text “Arteries, capillaries and veins”
(see http://www.davincialba.it/didattica/Blood_runs/testi/Arteries,%20capillaries,%20veins.htm ) and
match the first part of each sentence with the second one, to find out
the whole sentence:
1 – Your heart and blood vessels
make up your blood system
2 – At the centre of your blood system is your heart
3 – The job of your heart
is like the one of a pump
4 – Blood vessels are tubes
where blood runs
5 – There are two main types of blood arteries and veins
vessels:
6 – Arteries are vessels which
carry blood away from the heart
7 – When arteries get to an organ
they branch many times
8 – The smallest branches
are called capillaries
9 – The capillaries then join up
to form veins
10 – Veins are vessels which
carry blood back to the heart
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WORKSHEET 3
QUESTION LOOPS
A) What is at the centre of your blood
system?
B) What is the job of your heart?
C) What is the name of the tubes the
blood system is made of?
D) How many types of blood vessels
are there?
E) What is the job of the arteries?
1) It pumps the blood around the
body.
2) Three main types: arteries,
capillaries and veins.
3) Veins carry blood back to the
heart.
4) The smallest branches are called
capillaries.
5) Oxygen and food.
F) What is the job of the veins?
6) Arteries branch many times.
G) What do arteries do when they get
to an organ?
H) What is the name of the smallest
branches?
I) What do capillaries take away from
the cells?
J) What do capillaries bring to the
cells?
7) Arteries carry blood away from the
heart.
8) Blood vessels.
9) The heart is.
10) Carbon dioxide and waste
chemicals.
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WORKSHEET 3
QUESTION LOOPS
RIGHT ANSWERS FOR THE TEACHER
Read the text “Arteries, capillaries and veins”
(see http://www.davincialba.it/didattica/Blood_runs/testi/Arteries,%20capillaries,%20veins.htm ) and
match each question with the right answer:
A) What is at the centre of your blood
system?
B) What is the job of your heart?
C) What is the name of the tubes the
blood system is made of?
D) How many types of blood vessels
are there?
E) What is the job of the arteries?
F) What is the job of the veins?
G) What do arteries do when they get
to an organ?
H) What is the name of the smallest
branches?
I) What do capillaries take away from
the cells?
J) What do capillaries bring to the
cells?
9) The heart is.
1) It pumps the blood around the
body.
8) Blood vessels.
2) Three main types: arteries,
capillaries and veins.
7) Arteries carry blood away from the
heart.
3) Veins carry blood back to the
heart.
6) Arteries branch many times.
4) The smallest branches are called
capillaries.
10) Carbon dioxide and waste
chemicals.
5) Oxygen and food.
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WORKSHEET 4
LABEL THE PICTURE
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WORKSHEET 4
LABEL THE PICTURE
COMPLETE PICTURE FOR THE TEACHER
Read the text “Heart and double circulation”
(see http://www.davincialba.it/didattica/Blood_runs/testi/Heart%20and%20double%20circulation.htm );
then label the picture below, using the following words or expressions:
vein from the lungs – vein from the body – right atrium – artery to the body –
left ventricle – right ventricle
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WORKSHEET 5
PUT IN LOGICAL ORDER
artery to the body – blood gets oxygen and releases carbon dioxide – left
atrium – artery to the lungs – right atrium – left ventricle – veins from the body
– blood gives oxygen and carries carbon dioxide away – right ventricle –
veins from the lungs
Veins from
the body
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WORKSHEET 5
PUT IN LOGICAL ORDER
RIGHT ANSWERS FOR THE TEACHER
Read the text “Heart and double circulation”
(see http://www.davincialba.it/didattica/Blood_runs/testi/Heart%20and%20double%20circulation.htm );
then put the terms or expressions below in logical order, following the
way of the blood in your circulatory system (start from: “veins from
body”).
artery to the body – blood gets oxygen and releases carbon dioxide – left
atrium – artery to the lungs – right atrium – left ventricle – veins from the body
– blood gives oxygen and carries carbon dioxide away – right ventricle –
veins from the lungs
Veins from
the body
Right
atrium
Blood gets O2
and releases
CO2
Veins from
the lungs
Artery to
the body
Blood gives
O2 and
carries CO2
away
Right
ventricle
Left
atrium
Artery to
the lungs
Left
ventricle
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WORKSHEET 6
DEFINITIONS
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
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Plasma
Antibodies
Hemoglobin
Thrombocytes
Formed elements
Red blood cells
Lymphocytes
Granulocytes
Monocytes
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3
a) Solid elements in blood; including blood
cells (red blood cells and white blood
cells) and platelets
b) Produce antibodies
c) The largest of the white blood cells
d) Proteins useful against microbes
e) Also called platelets, partecipate in
forming blood clot
f) Fluid portion of the blood
g) White blood cells, with oddly shaped
nuclei, with lobes and strands
h) Protein within red blood cells, that
transports oxygen
i) Also called erythrocytes, contain
hemoglobin
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5
6
7
8
9
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WORKSHEET 6
DEFINITIONS
FULL TABLE FOR THE TEACHER
Read the text “What’s in blood?”
( see http://www.davincialba.it/didattica/Blood_runs/testi/What's%20in%20blood.htm ); then
fill in the table below, matching each term (numbers) with its definition
or description or function (letters).
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
Plasma
Antibodies
Hemoglobin
Thrombocytes
Formed elements
Red blood cells
Lymphocytes
Granulocytes
Monocytes
a) Solid elements in blood; including blood
cells (red blood cells and white blood
cells) and platelets
b) Produce antibodies
c) The largest of the white blood cells
d) Proteins useful against microbes
e) Also called platelets, partecipate in
forming blood clot
f) Fluid portion of the blood
g) White blood cells, with oddly shaped
nuclei, with lobes and strand
h) Protein within red blood cells, that
transports oxygen
i) Also called erythrocytes, contain
hemoglobin
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
f
d
h
e
a
i
b
g
c
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WORKSHEET 7
QUESTIONS
Answer these questions:
1) Why is human circulation (and in general mammal) called “double”?
2) Find out at least two differences between arteries and veins.
3) What are capillaries?
4) What is blood composed of?
5) What do we mean by "systemic circuit" and "pulmonary circuit"?
6) Which are the different parts of the heart?
7) What is the plasma and what is it composed of?
8) What is the hemoglobin? Which is its function? What does it consist of?
9) How can leukocytes move?
10) What is the function of the platelets?
11) What are antibodies? What is their function?
12) What is the RH factor?
13) Explain the ABO blood types
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