Watch the video again. Decide if the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones

 

1. The fire in the video is a planned one.

2. It is possible to survive flashover.

3. The house has neither a smoke alarm nor a fire sprinklers system.

4. The fire started in the living room.

 

5. If you discover a fire you should call the fire department first and then leave the house.

 

7. Home fires are typically reported some time after the fire starts.

8. Firefighters usually arrive ten minutes after the fire has been reported

9. There is a fire sprinkler on the wall in the room on the left.

10. The fire didn’t do much damage in the left room.

 

11. The room on the right combusts in flashover in twenty seconds.

 

12. The purpose of the video is to show lifesaving effectiveness of fire sprinklers.

 

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UNIT 2

 

CLASSES OF FIRES

 

VOCABULARY

 

Study the active vocabulary.

 

1. to denote                                    – обозначать, означать

2. liquefiable                                  – сжижаемый

 

3. to reach                                        – достигать

4. suitable                                         – подходящий, годный

5. extinction                                    – тушение пожара

6. compound                                – соединение, смесь; составной, сложный

7. to take place                           – происходить

8. jet                                                        – компактная струя

9. spray                                               – водяная пыль (распыленная струя)

 

10. to choose                               – выбирать

11. to cool                                        – охлаждать

cooling                                       – охлаждающий; охлаждение

12. quantity                                     – количество

13. sand                                             – песок

14. foam                                             – пена

 

15. vaporizing                              – парообразующий

16. blanketing                              – покрытие, покров

 

17. dry powder                           – сухой порошок

 

18. live                                                  – находящийся под напряжением

19. exception                               – исключение

20. nozzle                                         – насадок, ствол

21. electrically dead             – обесточенный

22. to apply                                     – применять, употреблять, обращаться

 

23. available                                  – имеющийся в распоряжении

24. flexible                                       – гибкий, податливый

25. to decompose                  – разлагаться,

 

26. to liberate                               – освобождать

 

27. to aggravate                       – ухудшать

 

 

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TEXT A

 

Discuss the questions with your partner.

 

1. Do you know any classification of fires? According to what principles are fires classified?

 

2. Look at the table. What can you say about each class of fire?

 

Class A      Class B      Class C           Class D               Class K

 

3. What is the fuel?

4. Could you give examples for each class of fire?

 

Read the text using a dictionary if necessary. Check your answers for Ex. 2.