1 . On an ordinary day, Debbie’s doorbell rang out of the blue. Sixteen-year-old Amy from next door was there -“Help, my brother Dylan is ___________,” she shouted.

Debbie and her sister Ellen _____________ to their house to find eight-year-old Dylan bleeding heavily from a huge cut in his _________.

Amy had been ___________ Dylan while their mum had popped out to the shop. Dylan had fallen while running through the house, _________ pushing his arm through a glass door panel.

Debbie had recently taken a first aid _____________ and knew what to do. “I knew I needed to _____________ pressure to stop the blood from running. I ___________ a towel from the bathroom and used it to press on the ___________,” she said. She told Ellen to call for an ambulance __________ she knew the cut would need medical treatment.

Just as the ambulance pulled up, Dylan’s mum came back home. She was deeply   ________________ by what had happened. She held Dylan’s arm and then the two of them __________ to the hospital together in the ambulance.

After a few weeks, Dylan ______________ and went back home. Dylan’s mother thanked Debbie and Ellen the day after the incident. “I’m so ____________ that I learned first aid,” Debbie said. “I never thought I’d need to use my first aid ________ so soon, but I’m very glad I knew what to do. ”