Firefighters’ Tips to Prevent Home Fires 🔥
In France, a home fire kills 800 people every year, and most of the victims die at night, in their sleep, intoxicated by the smoke. So the sapeurs-pompiers give simple tips: check the electrical connections, never leave a fryer alone, install a smoke detector on each floor. The students read these tips, and learn the vocabulary of risk and prevention.
Around the text, a complete session: vocabulary definitions, conjugation (the present, and the right tense for each sentence, conditionnel included), comprehension with justifications, and expression tasks: play a firefighter, or write a prevention article for the local newspaper. The abridged version is free; the complete worksheet, with the answer key, is for Premium members.
The four pages side by side: the text, the exercises and the answer key
✨ What students practise
First, the text: eight sections of tips, with the good reflexes (✅) and the bad ones (❌): multiprises with a switch, the filter of the sèche-linge to clean, the friteuse to watch, the bougies and the cigarettes too, the détecteur de fumée on each floor, the extincteur in the kitchen. And a special section: what to do if the fire is in the corridor — do not go out, stay home, call 18 or 112.
Then the exercises: 10 vocabulary definitions (court-circuit, inflammable, prévention…), two conjugation tasks (the text in the present, and 8 sentences where the student chooses the tense, with a conditionnel and an imparfait hidden in the middle), comprehension questions with a justification from the text, and expression tasks. In short, a practical text, and a lot of grammar around it.
Read the firefighters’ tips: what to do, and what not to do, at home.
Match the 10 words of risk and prevention with their definitions.
Conjugate in the present, choose the right tense, justify the answers.
Play a firefighter, write a prevention article, present a campaign.
📊 The home fire in France, in numbers
Real numbers, from the Sapeurs-pompiers d’Ille-et-Vilaine, to open the session with a small electric shock:
💬 The words of the firefighters
The vocabulary, grouped in three families: the fire and the dangers (red), the equipment (blue), and the prevention and the people (green):
🎁 The free abridged version
The text with the main tips, plus the vocabulary and the present-tense conjugation. A good way to try the activity before going Premium.
🎁 Free PDF – abridged version
The text, the vocabulary and the present-tense task, free for everyone.
🔓 Want the complete worksheet and the answer key?
Become a Premium member to unlock the full version and the editable DOCX.
💎 The complete worksheet (Premium)
The full text, all the exercises, and the answer key with explanations for the tricky tenses — like the two possible solutions for « tout à l’heure », or the conditionnel hidden in the safety rules. The DOCX lets you adapt the tips to your country or your class.
Preview: the text, the exercises and the answer key
🎯 Recommended level, and the next steps
❓ Frequently asked questions
📚 What level is this worksheet for?
Mainly A2-B1: the text and the vocabulary are accessible from A2, and the conjugation task with the conditionnel stretches to B1.
🗂️ What does the worksheet contain?
A practical text with eight sections of tips, 10 vocabulary definitions, two conjugation tasks, comprehension questions with justifications, oral and written expression tasks, and the answer key.
📊 Are the numbers real?
Yes: 800 deaths and 10,000 victims per year, 70% of the fatal fires at night, one fire out of four due to a faulty electrical installation. Source: Sapeurs-pompiers d’Ille-et-Vilaine.
🎁 Which version is free?
The abridged PDF with branding is free for everybody. The complete worksheet and the DOCX files are reserved for Premium members.
✅ Is there an answer key?
Yes, with all the answers and explanations for the tricky tenses, like the two possible solutions for « tout à l’heure ».
