If you discover smoke or fire
If it is safe to do so, get everyone from immediate danger and close the door to the area to confine the smoke and fire.
If the fire is small and you are properly trained, control the fire with available firefighting equipment.
Before you go through a door to leave a room, feel the door with your hand. Do not open any door that feels hot.
Do not return for personal belongings.
If there is smoke, stay low.
Use stairs to reach an exit floor. Do not use elevators.
After you are out of danger, call 911.
If you catch on fire
Do not run. Stop, drop and roll to put out the flames.
If you are trapped, wedge wet towels or cloth along the bottom of doors to keep out smoke.
Close as many doors as possible between you and the fire.
Call 01 or 911 to report the fire and your location.
If you are trapped and need fresh air break the window only as a last resort
Response to fire alarms
When an alarm sounds, leave the building immediately. Never assume it is a false alarm.
Do not use elevators.
Do not return for personal belongings.
Help people who are unfamiliar with the building or people with disabilities escape the building.
How to use a fire extinguisher
Exercises
Vocabulary
Translate from English into Russian.
A fire extinguisher; to control the fire with available firefighting equipment; not to return for personal belongings; to drop and roll to put out the flames; to escape the building; to feel the door with your hand; if there is smoke, to stay low; if you are trapped, to wedge wet towels or cloth; if you catch on fire; if you discover smoke or fire; never to assume it is a false alarm; to response to fire alarms; to confine the smoke and fire; to keep out smoke; to be unfamiliar with the building or people; to use stairs to reach an exit floor; to wedge cloth along the bottom of doors;
Write words that have an opposite meaning to the given below.
known;
capture;
come in;
loosen, uncompress;
interfere
Write words that have a similar meaning to the given below.
your own things;
smog;
answer, reaction;
let go, release;
desperate remedy;
Match the words from the column one with the words from the column two. Translate the word combinations.
catch
false
firefighting
keep
last
personal
put
stay
to be
equipment
alarm
out
belongings
trapped
out
on fire
resort
low
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Make up sentences with the words and word-combinations given below:
Assume, catch on fire, confine, escape, fire extinguisher, false alarm, fire, firefighting equipment, flame, keep out , last resort, personal belongings, response, smoke, stay low, to be trapped;
Text
Answer the questions:
Think, what is this text about?
How to prepare to a fire?
What to do in a case of fire?
What cases of fire can you name?
Let’s watch an educational film made in USA. You will watch the movie and discuss the 6 ways to prevent fire.
Video “Fire safety”
Read the text.
Translate the text.
Agree or disagree
Help people unfamiliar with the building or people with disabilities escape the building.
If it is safe to do so, get everyone from immediate danger and do not close the door to let the fire brigade come in easily.
If the fire is small and you are properly trained, control the fire with available firefighting equipment.
If the fire is small you may return for personal belongings.
If there is smoke, open windows.
If you are trapped, break all the windows and try not open any door even if it feels hot.
If you catch on fire stop, drop and roll to put out the flames.
Use elevators to reach an exit floor, because they are faster
Wedge wet towels or cloth along the bottom of doors to keep out smoke.
When an alarm sounds, consider if it is not a false alarm, then leave the building.