Language Development

Body Basics

Language: Ask for and Give Information

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Busy Body Your skeleton helps you stand upright. Your heart pumps blood all day and night. Your lungs breathe air out and in. Your muscles let you turn and spin. Your stomach digests the food you eat. Your nerves sense feelings down to your feet. Your brain tells your body how to act. Your body is busy, and that’s a fact!

Busy Body
Your skeleton helps you stand upright.
Your heart pumps blood all day and night.
Your lungs breathe air out and in.
Your muscles let you turn and spin.
Your stomach digests the food you eat.
Your nerves sense feelings down to your feet.
Your brain tells your body how to act.
Your body is busy, and that’s a fact!

The Body

  • skeleton

  • heart

  • lungs

  • muscles

  • stomach

  • nerves

  • brain

Express Yourself

ASK FOR AND GIVE INFORMATION

Ask a partner a question about each of these parts of the body. Answer your partner’s questions in complete sentences.

    Example

  • 1. What does the skeleton do?

    It supports your body and protects the heart and lungs.

  • 1. skeleton

  • 2. heart

  • 3. lungs

  • 4. muscles

  • 5. stomach

  • 6. brain

7.–10. Tell a partner 4 facts about the body. Then listen as your partner tells you 4 facts about the body.

    Example

  • 7. Muscles help you move.