4. Выучите следующие слова:

1. core — основной

2. summon — вызывать (no телефону)

3. dedicated — предназначенный

4. firefighter — пожарный

5. rescue — спасать

6. crime — преступление

7. ambulance — машина скорой помощи; санитарный транспорт

8. staff — кадры, штат, личный состав

5. Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос: What are core emergency services?

Core Emergency Services

There are three services which are almost universally acknowl­edged as being core to the provision of emergency care to the popula­tion. They would generally be summoned on a dedicated Emergency telephone number, reserved for critical emergency calls. They are:

Fire service — Providing firefighters to deal with fire and rescue operations.

Police Providing community safety and acting to reduce crime against persons and property.

Emergency medical service — Providing ambulances and staff to deal with medical emergencies.

6. Прослушайте следующий диалог, затем прочитайте его по ролям:

— Emergency. What service do you need?

— My name’s Catherine Louise ... L-O-U-I-S-E. I need ambu­lance.

— What happened?

— My father, who’s 87, fell down the ladder.

— What’s your address?

— 47, Fullham Rd.

— Sorry, can you spell it, please?

— F-U-L-L-H-A-M.

— OK, Ms Louise, coming soon.

7. Составьте подобный диалог, используя названия других служб мчс и следующих улиц:

Williow St., Right Sq., Jaded Cr. (Crescent), Whatsaname Ave, Eighth St., Threadandneedle St., Rodger Lane, Lewis Lane, Ha­zel Rd., Royal Mews, French Boulevard, Yellow Terrace, Gonowhere passage, Foreign Thouroughfare, Victoria Alley, Elm St.

В диалогах вы можете использовать следующие чрезвычай­ные ситуации.

1. There is a fire on the fourth floor of the neighbouring build­ing.

2. Somebody has been murdered in the street.

3. There is a fight between your neighbours.

4. An old man is lying unconscious near your doorstep.

5. There is a car upside-down on the hard shoulder of the In­terstate No. 3, a driver is trapped.

6. Your dog has been trapped in the bucket.

7. There is a flood in the hotel.

8. There has been explosion at the entrance of the movie thea­tre.

8. Рассмотрите рисунок на с.15 и заучите приведенные ниже термины.

1—13 — Measures for managing fractures and wounds

1. arm bandage

2. arm sling

3. head bandage

4. first-aid kit

5. first-aid dressing

6. sterile gauze dressing

7. sticking plaster

8. wound

9. bandage

10. emergency splint for a broken limb

11. fractured (broken) leg

12. splint

13. headrest

14—17 — Measures for stanching (tying up of) the blood flow

14. pressure points of the arteries

15. emergency tourniquet on the thigh

16. walking stick used as a screw

17. compression bandage

18—23 — Rescue and transport of an injured person

18. Rautek grip (for rescue of a victim of a car accident)

19. helper

20. injured person (casualty)

21. chair grip

22. carrying grip

23. emergency stretcher of sticks and a jack

24—27 — The positioning of an unconscious person and artifi­cial respiration (resuscitation)

24. coma position

25. unconscious person

26. mouth-to-mouth (mouth-to-nose) resuscitation

27. resuscitator (respirator, artificial breathing device)

28—33 — Methods of rescue in ice accidents

28. person who has fallen through the ice

29. rescuer

30. rope

31. table (or smth. else)

32. ladder

33. self-rescue

34—38 — Rescue of a drowning person

34. method of release (release grip) to free a rescuer from the clutch of a drowning person

35. drowning person

36. lifesafer

37. chest grip (a towing grip)

38. tired swimmer grip (hip grip)