24. A compound adjective is formed from two different words and occasionally three. Combine the following words and form different compound adjectives:

rehearsed

Hazard- specific

High- level

organized

Well- established

Thoroughly- tested

Brand- new

- directed

Well- made

Well- developed

Fifteen- minute

Two- hour

Full- time

Part- time

Funnel- shaped

25. Arrange the following words and word combinations into pairs of antonyms .

Important – insignificant – respond – immunity– wary – trouble – disregard – ignore – risk – safety – advantage– fortune – energy – alertness – stability – cautions – maintain – reckless – hazard – benefit – exposure – fortune– yield – submit– shelter – calamity – benefit – handicap– eliminate – preserve – emergency – routine – disaster – withstand – weariness – strength

26. Ask questions using the following words and word combinations:

to focus on, incident command, emergency, scene, first responder, disaster preparedness, government involvement, memory institutions.

27. Arrange the following words into pairs of synonyms:

Mitigate – urgency – affect – weaken – crisis – affect – eliminate – influence – important – guide – impact – manage – reply – essential – risk – refuge – conduct – protection – answer – head – response – security – hazard – react – danger – calamity – cover – peril – catastrophe – cancel – disaster – shelter – remove – misfortune – emergency – liquidate.

28. All the paragraphs in this text are jumbled up. Rearrange them into the correct order. Fill in the gaps in these sentences with a suitable word the first letter of which it given. Read the text.

Canadian Red Cross Society

The Canadian Red Cross Youth is a_______ In international relief w______ Each year it provides a____ to some 50 countries throughout the world.

The Red Сross in C_____ was established in 1896 as the first overseas b_____ of the British Red Cross Society. From this small b_____ developed the Canadian Red Cross Society. It was incorporated by an act of Parliament in 1909. the Society was r______ by the International committee of the Red Cross as an independent national society in 1927.

Canadian Red Cross Youth has more than 400,000 m_____ in schools from Newfoundland to british Columbia. It’s most interested in h_____ and c____ children in Canada and in Unfortunate children overseas.

The Canadian Red Cross Society is a____ in the provinces of Canada in more than 1,000 communities. The Canadian Red Cross provides disesler s_____ velerans’ s_____ instruction in first a_____, water s_____, and home n_____ as well as travelling medical and dental clinics. The Red Cross also operates a network of 25 Outpost Hospitals and Nurting Stations for p_____ in areas that are for from other h____ A national free Blood Transfusion Service operates in all ten provinces.

29. Read and translate the text

About Emergency Management

1. The Department of Emergency Management (DEM) is dedicated to helping the University and the State of Minnesota prepare for, respond to, recover from, and reduce the effects of potential intentional, accidental or natural disasters. Its mission is accomplished through preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation while fostering partnerships with outside agencies in the areas of emergency response, management, and training.

2. The Department of Emergency Management will be regarded as a leader in the community; having a world-class program supporting the university’s mission of teaching, research, and outreach.

3. The primary role of the Department of Emergency Management is to develop plans and resources to enable the University of Minnesota’s four campuses to cope with disasters.

4. The Department of Emergency Management (DEM) is a division of Public Safety, which in addition oversees the University of Minnesota Police Department (UMPD) and the Department of Central Security (DCS).

Developing plans and resources to cope with disasters is a four-step process that begins with preparedness. In this step DEM assesses the hazards that face the community. For example, while damage resulting from an earthquake would be devastating, major earthquakes are not very likely to occur in Minnesota so time and resources are not spent on developing such plans. However, Minnesota routinely faces tornados, severe winter and summer storms, along with the ever-present risks of hazardous materials and civil unrest.

In addition, because this is a major land-grant University, crowding problems are common. On a typical day, 10 to 20 thousand people fill the streets and sidewalks of the U of M each hour. There are also thousands of fans coming to campus by car and mass transit on any given day to attend men’s and women’s intercollegiate athletic events.

The second aspect of emergency management is response. DEM is actively engaged in the various activities that result from the occurrence of a disaster. In this situation, the emergency manager works to coordinate the efforts of various agencies such as police, fire or EMS. Assuming the responsibility of coordination ensures that efforts are not duplicated or wasted. Similar to utilizing the Incident Command System (ICS) model, an emergency management staff person often fills the incident commander role within a unified command structure.

Another aspect of the response phase is the establishment of an Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The EOC differs from a command post because it is away from the center of activity. The EOC provides a place senior administrators to make strategic decisions face-to-face without distractions.

At the University, the EOC is protected from severe weather and has a generator in the event of power failure. In addition to office phones used during the business day, there are three Centrex lines, which continue to work if the University's central telephone system fails. There are also ten special University lines in which phones are attached only during times of emergency. We have multiple data jacks, fax and copy services, secure entrances and access to emergency medical personnel 24 hours a day.

Recovery is the third phase of emergency management. As the name implies, this is the stage in which systems come back on-line. Again, coordination is the key to a successful recovery phase, as is good resource allocation.

Mitigation activities are the final role in emergency management and involves attempts to identify (a) what went wrong and how can it be prevented from occurring again, and; (b) other potential problems that can be addressed before they develop into a problem.

5. The DEM tasks are cyclical, not linear. After responding, immediate recovery planning begins. During this time, analysis on what caused the disaster and steps to mitigate problems takes place. For problems that cannot be easily fixed, adjustments are made for better response in the future.

Plans are living documents that must be continually updated as situations/threats/resources change.

6. Internally, DEM operates the University's Ambulance Service, which offers a number of highly trained volunteers to assist in the event of an emergency.

DEM works in close connection with the University of Minnesota Police Department, the Department of Central Security, the State of Minnesota’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to provide training as well as emergency medical equipment