Digestive system

1. The body needs food and drink. Food contains many substances that help the body
grow and repair. Drink is needed to replenish the supply of water in the blood.
Label de parts of the digestive system using these words:

salivary glands
mouth
throat

liver stomach

large intestine
small intestine

rectum

Word bank Word bank

Replenish = Completar, llenar/omplir Juices = Jugos digestivos/Sucs digestius.

Supply = Suministro/subministrament Throat = Garganta/Gola.
Bile = Bilis (jugo segregado por el hígado).
2. Fill in the gaps with these words:

Intestines – saliva – toilet – juices – food – mouth – throat

My teeth break food into small pieces. Food is mixed with saliva in my mouth. Food
goes down the throat and mixes with juices in the stomach. Nutrients in the food pass
from the intestines into my blood. Finally, food that can’t be digested comes out of my
body when I go to the toilet

3. Match Column A with Column B:

a) The longest part of the body is 1) To provide energy for life processes
b) The liver makes 2) Within for hours
c) Most food has passed to the small intestine 3) The small intestine
d) We need to eat 4) Bile to help digest fat

Answers: a) 3 b) 4 c) 2 d) 1

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4. Match both columns:
Organs Functions
1 a

2 b

3 c

4 d

5 e

6 f

7 g

8 h

Answer: 1 a 2g 3d 4f 5h 6c 7b 8e

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5. Read through the statements and link them to the correct label:

mouth food is broken down physically and

has acids added to it

oesophagus food enters here and is chewed up

stomach water is absorbed here

faeces pass out of the body here

small intestine

food passes down here to the

stomach
large intestine

digested food is absorbed into the

anus blood here

Word bank
Break down = Romper/Trencar (menjar)
Chew up = Masticar/Mastegar
Faeces = Heces/Excrements
Mix = Mezclar/Barrejar
Remove = Sacar/Extreure
The next step = El paso siguiente/El pas següent.

6. Put the sentences

into the correct order: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th
Order Sentences

2nd We then swallow the food and it passes down our oesophagus into our
stomach.
4th The next step is the small intestine where nutrients are absorbed into the
blood.
3rd Here acid and enzymes break the food down further.

1st Digestion starts in our mouth where food is broken down by our teeth and
saliva added.
6th From there it travels to the rectum where it remains until it passes out of the
anus.
5th The remaining material passes into the large intestine where water is
removed.

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7. Below is the order that food passes through the digestive system. Pretend that you
are a sandwich passing through the digestive system write a story for each stage of your
journey.
Organ Story
Mouth My name is Freddy Sandwich. I was having a lovely day till
Miss Cook decided to eat me for lunch. She put me in her
mouth and chewed me with her teeth. In the mouth I felt very
wet from saliva. I felt a bit funny, I think it was the enzyme
amylase breaking down the starch in my body into glucose.

Oesophagus All of a sudden I was travelling down this strange pipe. I think
Miss Cook had swallowed me down her oesophagus!

Stomach After being swallowed down the oesophagus, I started to get

churned up in the stomach. I didn’t like it much in there
because I was being broken down into even smaller pieces by
more enzymes. I could also feel the acid burning me. Ouch!

Small intestine Finally I was let out of the stomach into the small intestine. I
was feeling very small now and Miss Cook was absorbing all
the goodness out of me into her body. She must be hungry….

Large intestine By the time I reached the large intestine there wasn’t much left
of me. But Miss Cook still wanted more! She was absorbing
the water out of my body now.

Rectum Well there was not left of me by the time I reached the rectum.
Miss Cook had broken me up into tiny pieces and absorbed all
the goodness and water that she wanted. Now I was just
waiting to get out of here through the anus.

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 Finally I was let out of the stomach into the small intestine. I was
feeling very small now and Miss Cook was absorbing all the
goodness out of me into her body. She must be hungry….

After being swallowed down the oesophagus, I started to get

churned up in the stomach. I didn’t like it much in there because
I was being broken down into even smaller pieces by more
enzymes. I could also feel the acid burning me. Ouch!

Well there was not left of me by the time I reached the rectum.
Miss Cook had broken me up into tiny pieces and absorbed all the
goodness and water that she wanted. Now I was just waiting to get
out of here through the anus.

My name is Freddy Sandwich. I was having a lovely day till Miss

Cook decided to eat me for lunch. She put me in her mouth and
chewed me with her teeth. In the mouth I felt very wet from saliva.
I felt a bit funny, I think it was the enzyme amylase breaking down
the starch in my body into glucose.

By the time I reached the large intestine there wasn’t much left of
me. But Miss Cook still wanted more! She was absorbing the
water out of my body now.

All of a sudden I was travelling down this strange pipe. I think

Miss Cook had swallowed me down her oesophagus!

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8. Label the picture

mouth

oesophagus

stomach

pancreas

small intestine

large intestine

appendix

anus

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9. Food and Digestion Crossword

1
F I B E R
2
E N Z Y M E S
3
V I T A M I N S
4
E G E S T I O N
5
S T O M A C H
6
P R O T E I N
7
I R O N
8
A N U S
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T E E T H
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S A L I V A

1. Our bodies cannot digest this (5)

2. Chemicals that speed up chemical reactions (7)
3. An important part of a balanced diet. They are only needed in small amounts (8)
4. The process by which faeces are removed from our bodies (8)
5. The organ connected to the mouth by the oesophagus (7)
6. The food group needed for growth and repair (7)
7. A mineral required to make red blood cells (4)
8. The last organ in the digestive system (4)
9. They breakdown food mechanically (5)
10. This mixes in with food and helps it to move through the oesophagus (6)

THE KEY WORD IS INTESTINES

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 10. Label the picture:

teeth
mouth
tongue

oesophagus

liver

stomach

large intestine
small intestine

appendix
rectum

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11. Match both columns:

Mouth This is where undigested food leaves the

body

This is a muscular bag that churns the food

Oesophagus into a liquid and which contains acid to
kill harmful bacteria

This contains teeth which crush the food

Stomach and saliva to make it easy to swallow

Small Intestine This is a pipe that runs from the throat to

the stomach

This is where all the useful substances in

Large intestine the food we eat enter our blood

This is where water is removed from the

Anus food we cannot digest

Word bank

Bag = Bossa/Bolsa
Harmful = Dolent/Nocivo
To churn = Agitar
To remove = Extreure/extraer
To swallow = Empassar/Tragar
Pipe = Conducte/Conducto

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12. Find the digestive system words below in the grid to the left.

ABSORB EXCRETE NUTRIENTS SMALL INTESTINE

APPENDIX FILTER PANCREAS STOMACH

CHEW LARGE INTESTINE PHARYNX SWALLOW

DIGEST LIVER RECTUM TEETH

ESOPHAGUS MOUTH SALIVA TONGUE

Q K Z Z U V B Q U W S Y S P V D
M X L V L R R T C U J I W H P I
P S B A O L K Y G M B S B A A I
K X S S E W U A V M L S F R N Z
L O B M W A H M U D A W Q Y C T
I A T Z A P K T J T R A F N R Z
V N I O O L C X W S G L I X E V
E U M S N E L T X T E L L T A K
R T E G R G S I X O I O T W S F
C R M G P E U P N R N W E R I W
S I K S G H E E X T T M R Z F T
T E F I T T L I Q Y E N O N J Q
X N D Z E O D R B U S S I U Q Z
Q T U R S N M W C G T B T E T M
B S C C E F E A Y K I Z F I V H
O X V P A H C L C T N Q W F N N
E X P N C Y R V S H E X D F R E
D A S A L I V A H I F T E E T H

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13. Wordsearch: Find the words list below. There are 2 extra words hidden. Can you
find them?

B W V I L L U S S S F R A V Y O
I S B F D R O G B T S M P O L E
L J P U O P Q V S O B C B Q W S
E S O K R E C T U M E N L F Y O
X N J Q I U A T D A H Q V C D P
E B L D N C O M E C H A T B A H
R N O I P V N P I H Q Y N O M A
J P A N Y J Y W P L J U L O T G
Y Q A T I P M P N V D C I U R U
I C P E B M C A X Y U N V H T S
A V K S P Q S N L P Q Y E X C M
M O U T H X M C W P S T R U S Q
E Z M I D Q P R R B P K O V L B
D Y I N E A F E H V G A K O A R
G H O E S R L A D F O M P O Z P
K M A S M M H S P G U L L E T V

MOUTH RECTUM STOMACH INTESTINES

PANCREAS GULLET LIVER OESOPHAGUS

Word Bank

Gullet = Throat = Garganta/gola

Villus = Vellosidad intestinal/
vellositat intestinal

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14. Look at the table below and answer the questions:

Organ Time Length

Oesophagus 10 seconds 30 cm
Small intestine 8-9 hours 7m
Large intestine 14 hours 1.5 m

a) At what speed does food move along each of the organs?

b) What can you deduce from this information?

Digestive System Mindmap

nutrients

called

small pieces

into

food

Breaks down

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

Which is made up of

mouth oesophagus stomach small large

intestine intestine

The site of The site of The site of

The site of The site of
formation

mastication transportation digestion absorption faeces

insalivation

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DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SELF -ASSESSMENT Read and write a cross
YES NO NOT
☺  YET 
Label the organs of the digestive X
tract.
Define digestion. X
Explain the functions of the X
I CAN ... digestive system organs
Put in order the processes of X
digestion.
Calculate the velocity of transport of X
food through the digestive tract.

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