3. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1. What would you do if you won $ 100? $ 1,000,000?

2. Who would you like to be if you woke up tomorrow as a different person?

3. What single item would you save if your house/flat caught fire?

4. If someone lit a cigarette in a non-smoking area, would you tell them to put it out?

5. If you went to the USA, what would you do first?

6. What would you do if you were stuck in the lift?

7. What would you do if someone pulled out a knife in the street and said, "Hand over your money”?

8. If your best friend had a birthday tomorrow, what would you buy?

4. Что бы вы сделали в следующих чрезвычайных ситуациях?

1. You’re out walking and you get bitten by a poisonous snake.

2. You’re cooking in the kitchen when you accidentally cut yourself deeply on the hand.

3. You’re in a hotel room on the 6th floor and the fire alarm goes. You see the smoke coming under your door.

4. Someone in your family knocks a pan of boiling water off the cooker. The water goes over his/her arm.

5. You find an elderly relative lying on the floor without con­science.

Форма Second Conditional употребляется тогда, когда мы хотим дать совет:

If I were you, I would never put a candle on a plastic lid. (до начала пожара) — На твоем месте я бы не стает свечу па пластиковую крышку.

5. Дайте совет в следующих ситуациях, начиная со слов If were you...

1. Your friend has been having bad headaches. Up till now he has just taken aspirins.

2. Maria is going to the USA, but she doesn’t speak English.

3. Your friend runs a restaurant, but there are few customers.

4. Your friend is leaving school but doesn’t know what career to choose.

5. Your friend has had a few accidents at work.

6. There’s a storm outside, but your brother is eager to go out.

7. Your relative smokes too much.

Форма Second Conditional употребляется для выражения вежливой просьбы: Could you change some money? — Поме­няйте, пожалуйста, деньги. Would you move your bag, please?Подвиньте, пожалуйста, вашу сумку.

6. Выберите правильный ответ.

1. Could you lend me $5?

2. Would you mind getting me a drink?

3. Can you help me move into my new flat?

4. Would you mind putting out your cigarette?

5. Would you please move your car? It’s blocking my way.

6. Would you turn off the TV?

a. Sure, no problem.

b. Are you kidding? I’m broke!

c. Oh. Sorry, I didn’t know this was a non-smoking section.

d. I'll do it right away.

e. Sorry, but I’m really busy these days.

f. I'll do it in a moment.

7. Перефразируйте следующие команды так, чтобы они звучали как вежливые просьбы.

1. Turn off the light.

2. Get me a hamburger.

3. Give me something to drink.

4. Stop smoking.

5. Stop talking.

6. Telephone for an ambulance.

7. Turn down the radio.

8. Закончите следующие предложения:

1. If I had the money,... lend it to you.

2. If she spent a few months in the USA

3. If he were really hungry,....

4. If I were a firefighter,....

5. If I were a bird

6. If I took my exam tomorrow,....

7. If I had a dog,....

8. I f my watch broke

9. If they got married,....

10. If I went to Washington

9. Переведите на английский язык.

1. Если бы я был пожарным, я бы помогал людям.

2. Если бы начался пожар, то я бы вызвал пожарных.

3. Если бы произошел несчастный случай, я бы вызвал скорую помощь.

4. На твоем месте я не стал бы ставить свечу на пластик.

5. Если бы у меня была собака, я научил бы ее искать про­павших (missing) людей.

6. Если бы я получил образование, то я бы нашел хоро­шую работу.

7. Если бы ты был спасателем, я бы вышла за тебя замуж.

Unit 13

1. Выучите следующие слова:

1. ceiling — потолок

2. tile — кафель, плитка

3. neighbour — сосед

4. flame — пламя

5. board — правление, руководство, совет, коллегия (лю­бая организация, управление которой связано с заседа­ниями: группа людей, участвующая в таких заседаниях, и т. п.)

6. leak — утечка

7. wiring — проводка

8. destroy — разрушать

9. damage — ущерб

10. insurance — страховка

11. escape — избавление, спасение

2. Прочитайте следующий текст, стараясь минимально исполь­зовать словарь, и озаглавьте его.

I never did like polystyrene ceiling tiles. Apart from the fire haz­ard, they don’t look very good. So when I moved into a house whose previous owner covered every ceiling with polystyrene tiles, I really intended to take those tiles down. Now I can tell you nothing is more urgent.

For there’s the other thing about polystyrene tiles. They can turn the small fire into a killer.

Saturday, May 16, began in a usual way. I got up at about 7 o’clock, took my wife Jean a cup of tea in bed, then set off for the south coast on business, Jean rose shortly afterwards and left the house to do some shopping.

It was just as well that she did, for within an hour the house was filled with lethal smoke and fumes. Burning plastic dripped from the ceiling starting little fires in carpets and furniture. A neighbour spot­ted the smoke pouring out of the window and called the fire brigade. Another neighbour located Jean, and she and the firemen arrived simultaneously.

It was a piece of good luck, because they didn’t have to break down a door to get in. Once inside, they put out the flames in a re­markably short time and without a mess.

They also called the electricity and gas boards, who sent repre­sentatives to check the safety of respective installations.

'The wiring is all right, it must have been a gas leak," the man from the electricity board said. "There’s nothing wrong with the gas — it must have been an electricity fault" the gas man said. Both were right. The trouble started on the electrical wiring of the cooker clock.

One thing is certain: without those ceiling tiles it would have been a very localized fire. It might even have gone out by itself. However, the lire spread to the dining room. The heat shattered seven panes of glass. Two armchairs in the dining room were destroyed, but the sofa was not. The fire brigade put out the flames before they reached the hall and staircase or it might have been a more serious matter.

But the smoke damage...

Everything in the house was covered with an oily black film, al­most impossible to remove. There seemed to be nowhere the smoke hadn’t penetrated.

The insurance company paid up for the damage in the house and the interior decorations. The ceilings have been covered with the ornamental plaster which has been approved for its fire resistant qualities.

Now, four months later, things are slowly returning for normal. But nothing can make us forget that we had a very lucky escape. The fire could have started at any lime. If it had broken dining the night, we would have been killed by the fume. The discovery that you aren't fireproof is really frightening.