English as a Second Language - Illness, Allergies & Emergencies — Flashcards

Most of us, from time to time in ordinary life, suffer occasional 'minor injuries' ~ such as a small cut on the hand, where we mis-handle a piece of paper and the edge of it acts briefly like a knife (what we call 'a paper cut').
It's quite likely that English describes these little accidents in a different way from your language. Here are a few such situations: see if you can find the correct English way of explaining what has happened.