Fire at home Lesson 34 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 26 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 A fire in a home grows very fast: in a few minutes a whole room can fill with thick, hot, poisonous smoke. 1 You have very little time, so the plan is simple: get out, stay out and call for help. 2 Smoke is the biggest danger. 3 It is hot and lighter than the cool air, so it rises and gathers at the ceiling first. 4 The cleanest air is near the floor, which is why you get low and crawl under the smoke. 5 A smoke alarm smells the smoke before you do and wakes you, even at night. 6 Homes need one on every level and near the bedrooms, tested every month. 7 For example, if a girl wakes to the alarm and her bedroom door feels hot, the fire may be right behind it. 8 She keeps it shut and uses her second way out, such as a window, then goes to the family's meeting place outside. 9 If your clothes catch fire, running only feeds the flames with air. 10 Instead you stop, drop to the ground, cover your face with your hands and roll until the fire is out. 11 A boy in Michigan ran back into his burning house to get his video game; the smoke made him fall down, and firefighters had to carry him out. 12 A mum in Leeds threw water on a pan of burning oil; the water turned to steam and blew flaming oil across the kitchen, and she was burnt on the arms. 13 A small fire can fill a home with smoke in just a few minutes. 14 Most people who die in house fires are killed by smoke, not by the flames. 15 Hot smoke rises, so the cleanest air in a smoky room is near the floor. 16 Smoke alarms should be on every level of a home and tested every month. 17 Before opening a door in a fire, you feel it with the back of your hand; if it is hot, you use another way out. 18 The back of the hand feels heat well, and your palms stay safe for crawling. 19 Every family should have an escape plan with two ways out of each room and a meeting place outside, where everyone can be counted so nobody goes back in to look for someone. 20 Once you are out of a burning building, you never go back inside, not even for a pet or a toy. 21 You call the emergency number from outside: 911 in the USA and Canada, 999 in the UK and Ireland, 000 in Australia and 111 in New Zealand. 22 If your clothes catch fire, you stop, drop, cover your face and roll; rolling smothers the flames, putting them out by cutting off their air. 23 You should never hide under a bed or in a cupboard during a fire, because firefighters may not find you. 24 Closing doors behind you slows the spread of fire and smoke. 25 Water on burning oil makes the fire explode outwards. ← previous Medicines and cleaning productsnext → Home alone, the door and the phone↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/