Read the Text Arteries, Capillaries and Veins

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 / from the heart to the organs.
Veins / carry blood
Capillaries / to and from cells.

TABLE 2

Organs and body parts (WHICH?) / Functions
(WHAT?) / Location
(WHERE?)
Blood / around the body.
pumps the blood / to the arteries.
Blood vessels / to and from all the organs.
Arteries / carry blood
carry blood / from the organs to the heart.
exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide / to and from cells

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 / carries oxygen, carbon dioxide, food and waste / around the body.
Heart / pumps the blood / to the arteries.
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.

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 vessels: / to form veins
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

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 vessels: / arteries and veins
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

WORKSHEET 3

QUESTION LOOPS

A) What is at the centre of your blood system? / 1) It pumps the blood around the body.
B) What is the job of your heart? / 2) Three main types: arteries, capillaries and veins.
C) What is the name of the tubes the blood system is made of? / 3) Veins carry blood back to the heart.
D) How many types of blood vessels are there? / 4) The smallest branches are called capillaries.
E) What is the job of the arteries? / 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? / 7) Arteries carry blood away from the heart.
H) What is the name of the smallest branches? / 8) Blood vessels.
I) What do capillaries take away from the cells? / 9) The heart is.
J) What do capillaries bring to the cells? / 10) Carbon dioxide and waste chemicals.

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? / 9) The heart is.
B) What is the job of your heart? / 1) It pumps the blood around the body.
C) What is the name of the tubes the blood system is made of? / 8) Blood vessels.
D) How many types of blood vessels are there? / 2) Three main types: arteries, capillaries and veins.
E) What is the job of the arteries? / 7) Arteries carry blood away from the heart.
F) What is the job of the veins? / 3) Veins carry blood back to the heart.
G) What do arteries do when they get to an organ? / 6) Arteries branch many times.
H) What is the name of the smallest branches? / 4) The smallest branches are called capillaries.
I) What do capillaries take away from the cells? / 10) Carbon dioxide and waste chemicals.
J) What do capillaries bring to the cells? / 5) Oxygen and food.

WORKSHEET 4

LABEL THE PICTURE

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

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

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”).

WORKSHEET 6

DEFINITIONS

1) Plasma
2) Antibodies
3) Hemoglobin
4) Thrombocytes
5) Formed elements
6) Red blood cells
7) Lymphocytes
8) Granulocytes
9) 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 strands
h) Protein within red blood cells, that transports oxygen
i) Also called erythrocytes, contain hemoglobin
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9

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) Plasma
2) Antibodies
3) Hemoglobin
4) Thrombocytes
5) Formed elements
6) Red blood cells
7) Lymphocytes
8) Granulocytes
9) 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

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