Listening for ielts 7 Unit 1

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: No wonder you were looking so tired.
Unit 3
: Listening Activity No. 15 
Over half a million children under five are taken to hospital each year after an accident at home. 
Tragically, about two hundred die. Most of these accidents need never have happened. Think how your 
adult-size home looks through a young child's eyes. Think how quickly your child is growing and 
changing. "Out of reach" may be much higher than it was not long ago. So think ahead their safety is in 
your hands.
Things look different from where children are. They can see lots of things to grab hold of or poke into: 
pan handles, the lead on the kettle, a hot drink, or the iron. If they grab something hot, it could burn or 
scald them. Even a cupful is dangerous.
When they're moving around they don't always look ahead. They don't see: panes of glass in doors 
and screens, things left on the floor, like toys, or spills in the kitchen, drawers or cupboard doors left 
open.
They can trip and fall over things, fall through panes of glass, or bump into things which stick out. 
Children like to explore and soon learn to open thing. They can find lots of things you thought were 
hidden away, like in a kitchen cupboard or under the stairs. They can find: medicines and household 
cleaners – all these can harm them, matches, lighters, knives and other sharp tools, plastic bags and 
things they could choke on like peanuts.
Children don't know which things are dangerous. For instance, they can't tell the difference between 
lemonade and turps. As children grow and explore they see new things they want to reach and play 
with. They can: climb the stairs on their own but then they don't know how to get down again safely; 
climb on a chair to reach a window, then they could fall out of it; climb inside things, like cupboards and 
freezers; reach switches and knobs and turn them on and off. They could be anywhere. If you can't hear 
them playing, please go and look for them.
Keeping a constant eye on them as they move around is very difficult. You can't be everywhere at 
once, and anyway it's important for them to learn about the world around them. But you can help keep 
them safe by planning ahead and making the right arrangements. You can: store all medicines and 
household chemicals out of reach of children, make sure they are not left lying around; make it more 
difficult for them to reach or grab hot things, for instance, turn pan handles away from the front of the 
cooker; use a short or curly lead on an electric kettle.
Make sure all fires and heaters are guarded; use barriers on stairs and in doorway until they have 
learned to move around safely; fit safety glass at low level; make sure things are not left around on the 
floor or the stairs-this is safer for you as well as for them. Teach them about safely. Show them how to 
do things safely, like going up and down the stairs. Tell them about how hot things could hurt them.

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