12 L2-Your body

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Oxford Read and Discover level 2 Your Body by Louise Spilsbury

Introduction Your body is amazing! It helps you to walk, work, and play. It helps you to eat, read, listen, and learn. It's important to protect your body. How does your body help you? How do you protect your body? Discover! Now read and discover more about your body!

Chapter 1 Your Skin and Hair You have skin everywhere on your body. Your skin helps you to touch things. It helps you to know when things are hot or cold. Skin stops dirt getting into your body. It stops water getting into your body when it's rainy and when you swim. Hair grows out of your skin. Hair on your arms and legs stands up when you're cold. This stops your body getting too cold. Your skin makes sweat when you're hot. This stops your body getting too hot. Protect your body! Wash every day, so you can get dirt and sweat off your skin and hair.

Chapter 2 Your Bones There are bones under your skin. These bones make your skeleton. Your skeleton helps you to stand up. There are joints in your skeleton, too. Bones meet at joints. Elbows and knees are joints. Joints help you to move. Knee joints help you to jump and kick. A baby has small bones. Bones grow and they make you big and tall. Discover! Your bones stop growing when you are about 20 years old. Then there are 206 bones in your body! Protect your bones! When you ride a skateboard, wear pads to protect your bones and joints. Wear a helmet to protect your head, too.

Chapter 3 Your Muscles What helps your bones and joints to walk, run, dance, and jump? Muscles! Muscles pull your bones to move your body. Muscles in your legs help you to ride a bicycle. Muscles in your arms help you to row a boat. Discover! There are more than 600 muscles in your body! Running, swimming, dancing, and riding a bicycle are types of exercise. Exercise makes your muscles, bones, and joints strong. Your heart is a type of muscle. Exercise makes your heart strong, too. Protect your body! Do exercise every day. What is your favorite type of exercise?