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Basic 3 · Our World and Our People · Myself

Personal Hygiene

In this topic you will learn how to keep your body clean and healthy.

By the end of these notes you should be able to:

  • Explain personal hygiene
  • Describe good hygiene habits
  • Explain how good hygiene prevents disease

What you already know

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Copy everything that has a blue line on its left into your notebook. The other parts are for reading.

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All About Us
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Myself
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B3.1.2.1.1 – Explain ways of promoting personal hygiene and safety as a responsible citizen

Introduction

Germs are tiny living things we cannot see. They can make us sick. Keeping our bodies clean stops germs.

1. What is Personal Hygiene?

Personal hygiene: Keeping your body and clothes clean to stay healthy.

2. Good Hygiene Habits

Hygiene habits
HabitHow often
bathe with soapevery day
brush teethtwice a day: morning and night
wash hands with soapafter the toilet and before eating
cut fingernailsevery week
wear clean clothesevery day
comb hairevery day
Steps of washing hands with soap under running water
Figure 1: Washing hands well Draw the handwashing steps.Illustration: Sirbus

3. Hygiene Prevents Disease

Washing hands stops germs that cause cholera, diarrhoea and typhoid.

Brushing teeth stops tooth decay.

New words

hygiene
Keeping clean to stay healthy.
germs
Tiny living things that cause disease.
decay
To rot or go bad.
diarrhoea
A sickness with watery stools.

Summary

  • Personal hygiene means keeping your body and clothes clean.
  • Bathe, brush teeth twice a day and wash hands with soap.
  • Good hygiene stops disease.

Class activity: Clean Kit

  1. Look at the soap, toothbrush and clean handkerchief.
  2. Show the right way to wash hands at the Veronica bucket.
  3. Make a hygiene chart for the class.

You need: Bar of soap, Toothbrush, Clean hand towel

Exercises

Answer in your exercise book first, then check your answers.

  1. 1. How often should you brush your teeth?

    • A. Twice a day
    • B. Once a month
    • C. Never
    • D. Once a year
    Show answer
    Answer: Twice a dayMorning and night.

  2. 2. When should you wash your hands with soap?

    • A. After the toilet and before eating
    • B. Only on Sunday
    • C. Never
    • D. After sleeping only
    Show answer
    Answer: After the toilet and before eatingThese are key times.

  3. 3. Germs can make us sick.

    • A. True
    • B. False
    Show answer
    Answer: TrueGerms cause disease.

  4. 4. We should wear dirty clothes.

    • A. True
    • B. False
    Show answer
    Answer: FalseWear clean clothes daily.

  5. 5. Keeping clean to stay healthy is ______.

    Show answer
    Answer: hygieneThat is hygiene.

  6. 6. Write three good hygiene habits.

    Show answer
    Answer: Any three: bathe, brush teeth, wash hands, cut nails, clean clothes, comb hair.These keep us healthy.

Homework

  1. Make a daily hygiene chart and tick each habit you do for a week.