Exercise 2.2 Today, we will talk about choking. In fact, choking is quite a common problem in our daily life. What's choking? This is when someone has an object stuck in his or her throat. This happens quite often when people are eating If a piece of food gets stuck, the person can't breathe and the food doesn't go down. When this happens, we say that the person is choking. Everyone should know what to do. What should we do when this happens? Should we hit the person on the back? No, you shouldn't do that. That's not a good idea because that can make the object move down and maybe get stuck more. You should do a trick called the Heimlich Maneuver. What's that? It's a special movement to help a person who is choking. It's called the Heimlich Maneuver after Doctor Henry Heimlich,the man who invented it.
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