Type your answers into the text boxes or perform the activity requested.
When you have finished this section of work, you will have shown that you are aware of the risks an unhealthy lifestyle, understand how to keep yourself healthy, know how to contact medical and other emergency services.
To do this you must:-
1. describe what good personal hygiene is and why it is important
2. list the main risks to good health
3. identify things you can do to reduce these risks to health
4. find out where your nearest sports centre is and what activities are available
5. make a trial emergency call correctly and clearly. Write the name of the person you called here:
You will need to know how to look after your personal hygiene. This means keeping your teeth, hair, body and clothes clean and taking care over the way you look.
You will need to know about the main risks to health, including drinking too much alcohol, taking drugs, smoking, unprotected sex, poor diet and lack of exercise.
You must show you know how you can cut down these risks to your own health.
You will measure your height and weight and your tutor or supervisor will give you a chart and help you to check whether you are the right weight for your height.
You must find out where your nearest sports or leisure centre is, what activities you can do there, when you can do them and how much they cost.
You will also have to make a trial emergency call. This means a practice call that your tutor or supervisor will arrange and not an actual call to the emergency services.
You will have to report an emergency and ask for help from the police, fire, ambulance or coastguard services and give all the information they ask for clearly and calmly.
You will have to do this well enough that the emergency services could send out a police car, fire engine, ambulance, boat or helicopter to you, depending on what the emergency was.
You've typed some evidence into the boxes above. You could also produce some more. Some suggestions are below.
The evidence you produce can include:-
1. a leaflet with labelled Personal Skills showing the main points of good hygiene or a tape recording of you describing what personal hygiene is and why it is important
2. a chart or table listing the six main risks to health and ways of reducing them, including the recommended limits of alcohol for a man and a woman the main ways of protecting yourself from sexually transmitted diseases the important ingredients of a healthy diet and suggestions for exercise
3. a record of your weight and height, with a statement of whether you are about the right weight for your height
4. a leaflet from your nearest sports centre, listing all the exercise activities that are offered including information about costs
5. a tape of you making a trial telephone call for help to the emergency services.
When you have finished this section of work, you will have shown that you are aware of the need to dress in a way that suits the occasion, understand the need to take care of the way you look
1. dress appropriately for the situation 2. make yourself look smart, when appropriate, for the situation
This section is about the impression you give to other people by the way you dress and present yourself. You will have to show that you know what clothes to wear for a particular occasion and how to make yourself look smart, including your personal hygiene and the way your hair looks.
6. Describe examples of dressing appropriately for the situation:
7. Describe examples of making yourself look smart, when appropriate, for the situation:
When you have finished this section of work, you will have shown that you can plan a meal for yourself, can prepare a meal for yourself, can work safely in the kitchen, can clear away after yourself.
1. decide what type of meal you are going to make 2. state whether this meal would form part of a healthy diet, with reasons 3. estimate the cost of your meal 4. collect together everything you will need to make your meal 5. prepare your meal 6. work safely while you prepare your meal 7. clear up after you have prepared your meal
You will have to decide what to make and whether it is a healthy meal. You will need to work out roughly how much it will cost. Your tutor or supervisor will help you to do this. You must get all the ingredients and equipment ready and then prepare your meal. Your tutor or supervisor must be with you while you do this. Your tutor or supervisor will advise you about how to work safely. You will have to show that you can work safely and use good hygiene. You will need to wear protective clothing and be careful to keep your hands clean. Your meal must be prepared well enough for you to eat it.
After you have made your meal, you will have to clear away the equipment and dishes, put leftover food or ingredients away and do the washing up.
You should leave the kitchen area as clean and tidy as you found it.
1. a written record of
what you are going to make the ingredients you will need the kitchen equipment you will need an estimated cost of the meal whether you think this is a healthy meal or not and one reason why
8. Write your record here:
2. a poster of good hygiene in the kitchen 3. a photograph or video tape of you preparing your meal 4. a photograph of the finished meal and a written statement about how much you enjoyed it 5. a witness statement from your tutor or supervisor that you worked safely and that you used good personal hygiene and food hygiene.
