3. Составьте по вашим ответам реферат текста.

4. Переведите следующие предложения.

1. Телефон службы спасения должен использоваться только в чрезвычайных ситуациях.

2. Звонки, не имеющие отношения к чрезвычайной ситуа­ции, могут угрожать жизни людей, т. к. они попусту тра­тят время диспетчеров.

3. Ложные сообщения о чрезвычайных ситуациях пресле­дуются по закону как преступления.

4. Службы спасения выделяют для несрочных сообщений контактные телефонные номера. Они обычно имеются в местных телефонных справочниках.

5. В Англии и Уэльсе трехзначный номер 999 выделен для серьезных чрезвычайных ситуаций.

6. Во многих областях Северной Америки номер 311 вы­делен для контакта с полицией и другими службами, чтобы сообщать о происшествиях, не представляющих угрозы для жизни, с тем чтобы не перегружать 911.

7. Номер 112 является международным номером службы спасения для сети мобильных телефонов GSM.

8. Во всех странах Европейского союза 112 — это но­мер службы спасения как для мобильной связи, так и для стационарных телефонов.

9. В Швеции, если местный центр связи службы спасения перегружен, звонок направляется в другой центр.

5. Парная работа. Используйте данные ниже ролевые задания.

Student А

1. Ask if it’s emergency service.

2. Explain that you need a police officer and an ambulance.

3. Tell your partner that there has been a bad fight between your neighbours and one of them is badly injured.

4. Explain that your neighbour’s hands and face are badly cut.

5. Tell your partner the address of the accident.

6. Spell your name and the name of the street you live in.

Student В

1. Lift a receiver and say your number.

2. Ask your partner what service is needed.

3. Ask your partner what happened.

4. Ask about the character of the injury.

5. Ask about the address of the accident in question.

6. Ask your partner to spell the name and address.

Unit 10

1. Выучите следующие слова и словосочетания:

1. firefighter — пожарный

2. equip — оборудовать, оснащать, экипировать

3. extinguish - to put out — тушить

4. rescue — спасать

5. disaster — бедствие, катастрофа

6. fire service = fire brigade = fire department — пожарная команда

7. urban — городской

8. volunteer — доброволец

9. career service — профессиональная служба

4. Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос:

What is this text about?

A firefighter is trained and equipped to put out fires, rescue peo­ple, aid and assist during natural disasters and, increasingly, provide emergency medical services. The fire service, also known in some countries as the fire brigade or fire department, is one of the emer­gency services.

Firefighting is the process and profession of extinguishing fires. Firefighting and firefighters have become universal around the world, from urban areas to wildland areas, and on board ships.

Not all firefighters are paid for their services. In some countries, including the United States, Canada, Finland, Australia, and New Zealand, there are often paid, or "career" ("professional" is falling out of popular usage due to the perception that non-paid volunteers would thus be termed "unprofessional") firefighters working. Ad­ditionally, there are volunteer and "call" or "retained" (firefighters who are paid for the specific time they are responding to emergen­cies) firefighters who are not employed full time as firefighters.

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the use of retained fire­fighters (who are part-time, but are paid when on duty) rather than volunteers is standard. The Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade in Cambridgeshire is unique in the United Kingdom. It effectively functions as a retained fire station except that its members provide their services unpaid. The Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade op­erates and responds to calls as directed by the Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service.

In Australia, volunteer brigades which are unpaid provide mostly rural services (although traditionally they are paid by their employ­ers if called out during working hours). They are not career brigades; however, if they arrive at a fire scene first, they can assume command over the local career brigade as their training is similar to profes­sional firemen.

In Germany, volunteer fire departments are established in every town: even the biggest German city, Berlin, with more than 3.4 million inhabitants, has volunteer fire fighters besides a career fire service. In fact, only 101 German cities (most of them are towns with more than 100,000 citizens) have a career fire service, called "Berufsfeuerwehr" in German, but in every of these cities a volunteer fire service exists, too. In cities with a career fire service, volunteer fire brigades support the career fire service at big fires, accidents and disasters.