Name the specialists and public organizations which are involved in a rescue operation. Identify the main types of relief supplies
18. Watch part of the film «Titanic’s survivors». Answer the questions:
1. How can we justify the fact that Titanic was «a technological wonder of that time»?
2. What was the cause of the shipwreck?
3. How many passengers were there on board?
4. When exactly did the shipwreck happen?
5. What were the passengers’ feelings at that moment?
6. How many people died in the disaster?
19. Choose the most suitable safety measures for the following emergencies: c hemical emergency, tornado, earthquake, flood, danger of lightening, wild fire, extreme heat, home fire.
Family escape plan; leave the building at once; crawl low; install a smoke alarm; prepare an emergency kit; go to the basement floor; shut all the doors and windows; stay away from tall trees; call 112 for emergency help; evacuate children, elderly and disabled people; get immediately under the desk; stay in the doorway; don’t use the lift; drink plenty of water; cover your nose and mouth with a wet handkerchief; use sunscreens; jump into a river or a pond; go to the highest place in the vicinity of your house; have a public warning system.
20. Make up sentences using the word combinations of the previous exercise and modal verbs (must/mustn’t, should/shouldn’t):
Example: During a period of hot weather you should drink plenty of water.
When an earthquake happens, you mustn’t use a lift.
21. Match the disaster with the geographical areas where they are likely to happen: Australia, the Western Coast of the USA, Japan, Thailand, Iceland, China, Alaska, Pakistan, India, the Middle East.
1. extreme heat
2. tornado
3. earthquake
4. tsunami
5. extreme cold
6. volcano eruption
7. flood
22. Study the list of words below and guess which natural disaster the text is about:
23. Read the text and complete the table:
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