First Aid 3 Notes and key

1 A wide range of medications … may be bought over the counter without a doctor’s prescription, and you may know and have used many of them.

2 However, when treating a casualty, ….. you must not buy or borrow medication to administer it yourself, even if the casualty has forgotten his or her own medication or you have the type they normally expect to use.

3 If you administer or advise any medication when giving first aid,… the casualty may be put at risk, and you could find yourself facing legal or civil action as a consequence.

4 Some protocols laid down by an employer or voluntary organisation allow … trained staff to administer medication in specific situations.

5 It is still essential … not to permit the casualty to exceed the recommended dose, whatever the circumstances, and you must keep a detailed record of what medicines have been taken or prescribed.

Notes and key
‘S’ and ‘Z’ sounds: ‘The use of medication’ – use – notice that in the title ‘use‘ is a noun, and is pronounced with an ‘s’ sound. Contrast this with the ‘z‘ sound in ‘use‘ as a verb in sentences 1 and 2, and in ‘advise‘ (verb) in sentence 3.
Stress: Did you notice that the stress on ‘yourself‘ and ‘permit‘ and ‘exceed‘ comes on the second syllable?
Pronunciation: Did you notice the pronunciation of ‘staff‘ – with an ar sound such as you get in ‘star‘ or ‘start‘?
Did you notice the pronunciation of the ‘s‘ in ‘dose‘? It is an ‘s‘, not a ‘z’ sound.
Spelling: advise – notice the spelling of the verb. The noun ‘advice‘ has a ‘c‘ and is pronounced with an ‘s‘ sound.
Vocabulary: protocol – noun – the accepted, usual, or official system of rules or code of procedure or behaviour in a particular situation
Silent letters: the ‘g‘ in bought, the ‘l‘ in could

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