Asthma is a disease that affects the lungs. It causes swelling in the airways which can make breathing difficult. During an asthma attack, the muscles around the airways tighten and the inside walls swell and produce extra mucus, making it hard to breathe. Common triggers for asthma attacks include allergens, pollution, and respiratory infections.

1. Asthma
Types of diseases, sicknesses and cures

2. Diseases
Diseases are serious, bad sicknesses.
Talk to your partner. How many diseases do you know
in English?
What parts of the body do they affect?

3. asthma
• What is asthma?
• What part of the body does it affect?
• Do you know anyone with asthma?

4. Asthma - Vocabulary
Do you know these words? Talk about them with your partner.

5. Asthma - Vocabulary
Do you know these words? Talk about them with your partner.
situation, problem
situation, problem
dangerous things
uncomfortable force
感染
how to fix a disease
parts
easily feel bad
swelling (big)
block, stop
to have contact with
something bad
what causes allergies

6. asthma

7. asthma
Lung
Trachea
Bronchus
Air sac

8. asthma
An asthma attack is the moment when a person with
asthma can’t breathe.
• What causes an asthma attack?
• What happens in the body during an asthma attack?
• What else do you know about asthma attacks?

9. Asthma - Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Egs825oH0
Watch the video about asthma. Write down words you don’t
know. Think about the people in the video.
What are they doing?
What are they talking about?
Who is who?

10. End.