Your Brain Feels No Pain
If the brain feels no pain, what is brain freeze?
Interesting Facts in Easy English
Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- whine: to complain in a way that annoys others
- receptor: a cell or nerve that responds to a sense
- roof of one’s mouth: the palate; above the top of the tongue
- contract: get smaller
- overreact: to act as if a minor problem is a serious one
- dilate: get wider
- conserve: save
- sensation: feeling
- temples: two flat upper parts at the side of the forehead
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Your Brain Feels No Pain
Comprehension Questions
- Why can’t you complain about pain in the brain?
- What is brain freeze?
- What can you do to stop brain freeze?
Discussion Question: How many different kinds of pain can you name? What’s the worst kind of pain?
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3 comments
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Mahnoj says:
i did it
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JoΓ£o says:
1- Why can’t you complain about pain in the brain?
R:The human brain has no pain receptors.2-What is brain freeze?
R:It occurs when you eat or drink something cold too quickly.
3-What can you do to stop brain freeze?
R:Try pressing your tongue against the roof of your mouth to relieve the sensation of cerebral freezing. -
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