🐷🐤🐷Performance Task (Flu/Influenza) 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👇
Task 1:
Source 1:
What is the flu (influenza)?
The flu is an illness you get from the influenza virus. It causes symptoms like head and body aches, sore throat, fever and respiratory symptoms, which can be severe. Flu is most common in winter months, when many people can get sick at once (an epidemic).
What causes the flu?
The influenza virus causes flu. Influenza A, B and C are the most common types that infect people. Influenza A and B are seasonal (most people get them in the winter) and have more severe symptoms. Influenza C doesn’t cause severe symptoms and it’s not seasonal — the number of cases stays about the same throughout the year.
H1N1 (“swine flu”) and bird flu are both subtypes of influenza A.
How does the flu spread?
The influenza virus spreads from direct or indirect contact with someone else who’s infected. Common ways to get the flu include:
- From someone nearby coughing, sneezing or talking. Droplets can either get onto your hands or move through the air to get into your nose or mouth. The flu then moves into your lungs.
- By touching a surface that’s contaminated by the flu virus, then touching your face, nose, mouth or eyes. This includes things like door knobs, desks, computers and phones.
- By touching the hands or face of someone who has the flu, then touching your face, nose, mouth or eye
What are the symptoms of the flu?
Symptoms of the flu usually come on quickly, and can include:
- Fever.
- Chills.
- Body aches.
- Cough.
- Headache.
- Sore throat.
- Runny or stuffy nose (congestion).
- Tiredness or feeling run down.
- Diarrhea or vomiting (usually only in kids).
You may not have all of these symptoms.
Part 1:
Instruction: Use the information from the sources to answer the questions below.
1. List two ways in which the flu can spread from one person to another.
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2. Define the term water Flu/Influenza.
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3.Write four symptoms of the flu
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4.The elderly persons in your community wants to learn about the Flu/ Influenza. However, they are unable to read. Your teacher asked you to make a presentation to the elderly persons of your community. Which one of the sources would you select to make your presentation? give reason for your choice.
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Part 2:
Use the information from the sources above to write a letter to the principal of your school, explaining three ways in which the students can prevent the spreading of Flu/Influenza.
Remember to include the following in your writing:
- Parts of the letter
- C.O.P. S writing strategy
- transitional /linking words.
- Capitalize where necessary.
- Indent your paragraphs.
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