Man-made disasters

Disasters having an element of human intent, negligence, error or involving a failure of a system are called man-made disasters. Man-made disasters are arson, CBRNs, civil disorder, power outage, public relations crisis, radiation contamination, telecommunication outage, terrorism, war, surviving a disaster.

2.Find English equivalents to the following word combinations:

Катастрофа/стихійне лихо/катаклізм, оточуюче середовище,

(нещасний) випадок, посилювати, процвітати, викликати, пожежа,

землетрус, зсув, лавина, посуха, голод, повінь, град, ураган, спалахи на

сонці, гроза, торнадо, цунамі, виверження вулкану, злива, недбале

ставлення, аварія.

3.Answer the questions:

1. What does the word “disaster” mean?

2. What two types of disasters do you know?

3. What are natural disasters?

4. What are man-made disasters?

Lesson 3

INFRASTRUCTURE

1.Read and translate the text: