🪁🚴‍♀️🪁Performance Task- Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)- Language Arts🪁🚴‍♀️🪁

Welcome 👦👧boys and girls. Today we will be engaged in a performance task activity. In this activity you will be provided with two sources to do your tasks.

Ready!!👦👧boys and girls. Read the sources carefully before selecting and writing your answers in part 1 and part 2👇

Task1

Source 1

What is Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)?  

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Most people infected with the virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. However, some will become seriously ill and require medical attention. Older people and those with underlying medical conditions like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, or cancer are more likely to develop serious illness. Anyone can get sick with COVID-19 and become seriously ill or die at any age according to the World Health Organization (WHO). 

Where do coronaviruses come from?

Coronaviruses are often found in bats, cats and camels. The viruses live in but don’t infect the animals. Sometimes these viruses then spread to different animal species. The viruses may change (mutate) as they transfer to other species. Eventually, the virus can jump from animal species and begin to infect humans. In the case of SARS-CoV-19, the first people infected are thought to have contracted the virus at a food market that sold meat, fish and live animals.

How do you get COVID-19?

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, enters your body through your mouth, nose or eyes (directly from the airborne droplets or from the transfer of the virus from your hands to your face). It then travels to the back of your nasal passages and mucous membrane in the back of your throat. It attaches to cells there, begins to multiply and moves into lung tissue. From there, the virus can spread to other body tissues.

What are the symptoms of someone infected with a coronavirus?

It depends on the virus, but common signs include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath, and breathing difficulties. In more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure and even death.

 Source 2:

Part 1:

Instruction: Use the information from the sources to answer the questions below.

1. What is Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)?  

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2. Write three ways you can prevent Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)?  

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3. What does the acronym WHO means?

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4.Which source has the most important information? Give reason for your answer.

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5.Use the table below to insert a tick to show the source that contain each information.

Information	Source 1	Source 2
Wear mask as required
Coronaviruses are often found in bats, cats and camels
Talk to an adult about concerns
It then travels to the back of your nasal passages and mucous membrane in the back of your throat
Common signs include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath, and breathing difficulties.
Keep your items to yourself
The World Health Organization

 Part 2:

Use the information from the sources to write a letter to your mother. Explaining to her how you can protect yourself at school from the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).  

Remember to include the following in your writing:

• parts of the letter. 
• transitional /linking words.
• Capitalize where necessary.
• Indent your paragraphs.