Ex. 1. Before you read the text, look at the pictures above and talk about these questions. 1 What kinds of injuries do you know? 2 What are some different types of fractures?

This is a pre-reading task, meant for discussion. Here are examples of answers: 1. Possible injuries include: fractures, sprains, dislocations, cuts, bruises. 2. According to the text we are about to read, there are stress fractures, displaced fractures, compound fractures, impacted fractures, comminuted fractures, and greenstick fractures.