- •Air travel
- •1. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below.
- •2. Instructions as above.
- •3. Put one of the following words in each space in the sentences below.
- •4. Translate into English:
- •5. Complete the sentences.
- •6. Here are 12 words that appeared in Unit 1 and the explanation to them. Find the words according to their explanation.
- •1. Listen to the airport announcements and complete the chart.
- •2. Where do you go first when you travel by plane? Put these places in the correct order. Write 1-5 on the left.
- •3. Read and listen to the conversations. Where are they? Write the letter next to the correct place on the right in Exercise 2.
- •4. Read the conversations again carefully. Who are the people?
- •5. Close your books. Listen to some of the lines from the conversations. There is a pause after each one for you to respond. You can use the ideas from the conversations in the book or your own ideas.
- •6. Translate into English:
- •7. Who is saying what? Write the letters (a-m) in the correct Speech balloon. Try to memorize what each person says.
- •8. What did the people at the airport say to each other?
- •9. Translate into English:
- •10. Make up micro dialogues:
- •Listening comprehension:Travelling by Air
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Translate into your language and back into English: Lufthansa’s home base
- •3. Match a line in a with a line in b to form a question. Answer this question
- •4. Work out questions to the following answers.
- •5. Listen and complete the conversations.
- •6. Practise the conversations in two several times. Use different information each time.
- •7. Translate into English:
- •8. Listen to the questions and choose one of the responds.
- •Key to Exercise 5
- •1. Read the text. Welcome to heathrow
- •Amazing facts... Every year Heathrow hands over There are 9,200 baggage
- •2. Fill the gaps with numbers from the box. Then check your answers in the text.
- •3. Pair work. Ask your friend about Heathrow airport. Begin each sentence from How many...? and use sentences of exercise 2. Listen to your friend's answer.
- •4. Which of these remarks are true? Begin your sentence with "Oh, yes, it's true..." or "Oh, no, it's not true..."
- •6. Translate into English:
- •7. Speak about Heathrow airport.
- •8. Here are 12 words that appeared in Unit 4 and the explanation to them. Find the words according to their explanation.
- •Word list
- •1. Study this information from a brochure for people travelling from other countries to London Heathrow Airport. Arrivals
- •2. Which of the following statements are true and which are false?
- •3. Change the sentences above which are false so that they are true.
- •4. Translate into English:
- •5. Complete the sentences:
- •Word list
- •Flying to spain
- •2. In flight. Norman is now on the plane. Listen to the four announcements, and answer the questions after each one.
- •3. Lunch on the plane. Listen to the dialogue and repeat. Then make up your own conversation.
- •5. Pair work. Ask each other questions and complete a landing card for each other.
- •6. Passport control. Listen to the dialogue and repeat. Then make up your own conversation.
- •9. Translate into English:
- •10. Here are 12 words that appeared in Unit 6 and the explanation to them. Find the words according to their explanation.
- •Word list
- •1. Read the story. Travelling by air
- •2. Put these events in the right order, according to the story.
- •10. Replace the underlined words with the words of the same meaning that appeared in Unit 7.
- •Word list
- •1. Put the different phases of flight in the correct sequence, filling in the table below
- •2. Look at the pictures and write down the number that corresponds to these words.
- •Word list
- •Keys to exercises
- •1. Read a slightly abridged story by Robert l. Fish. Hijack
- •2. Answer the questions to the story.
- •3. Take the parts of the characters of the story and try to dramatize it.
- •4. Nouns that go together. Match a line in a with a line in b. (The stress is on the first word in all the combinations).
- •6. Translate into English:
- •Word list
- •2. Find in the text examples of Present Perfect Continuous Tense and Present Perfect Simple Tense and explain the difference.
- •3. Here are the summaries of the seven paragraphs. Match them to the correct paragraph.
- •4. Read this summary of the text. There are some mistakes in it. Say if the sentences are true or false.
- •5. Translate into Russian and then back into English.
- •6. Make up sentences of your own with the word combinations in
- •7. Translate into English.
- •8. Speak about one of the items shown in Exercise 3. Word list
- •Reading comprehension:Airplane Structure
- •5. Look at these words for parts of a plane:
- •6. Look at the diagram on this page. Do you know the words which correspond to the numbers? Fill in the crossword below.
- •7. Read the text. Aeroplane structure
- •8. Answer the questions to the text.
- •9. Find in the text examples of Participle I and Participle II and try to explain the difference.
- •10. Find in the text examples of -ing forms and explain the difference between Participle I and Gerund.
- •11. Match the equivalents.
- •12. Translate into English.
- •Word list
- •Key to exercise 6
- •4. Work in pairs. Ask your friend (a pilot) about his possible action in the case of possible incidents during flight. Listen to his answer.
- •5. Match English and Russian equivalents.
- •6. Listen to the transmissions and define the type of emergency.
- •Word list
- •Keys to exercises
- •1. Read an abridged extract from a. Hailey's ‘Airport’. Explosive decompression on board trans america two
- •2. Check the box in front of the correct answer.
- •3. Find in the text examples of Continuous Tenses and explain their usage.
- •4. Pair work. You are a controller of the Toronto Air Route Centre. Your partner is Anson Harris who has called you.
- •6. Here are 8 aviation terms and definitions to them. Try to match the terms with their definitions. Memorize them.
- •7. Match English and Russian equivalents.
- •8. Try to explain the words and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •9. Translate into English.
- •Word list
- •1. Read an article by Andrew Alderson and Ian Birrell from The Sunday Times, 28/10/90. Concorde and jumbo in air miss over heathrow
- •2. Answer the questions to the text of the article.
- •3. Word building. The word in capital at the end of each of the following sentences can be used to form a word that fits suitably in the blank space. Fill in each blank this way.
- •4. Make short conversations between.
- •5. Match English and Russian equivalents.
- •6.Replace the underlined words with the word of the same or nearly the same meaning that appeared in Unit 14.
- •7. Use the word combinations of Exercise 5 in the sentences of your own.
- •1. Read an article from an aviation magazine. Fill each gap with one of the following verb forms:
- •Two aircraft hit uk motorways
- •2. Answer the questions to the text of the article.
- •3. Find in the text of the article words to the following definitions and synonyms:
- •4. Put in the missing prepositions in the following sentences. Each preposition can be used more than once.
- •5. Match English and Russian equivalents.
- •6. Use the word combinations in Exercise 5 in the sentences of your own.
- •7. Speak about the accident on the m2 motorway.
- •8. Speak about the accident on the m27 motorway.
- •1. Look at the paragraphs quickly and first decide which paragraphs go with which story.
- •2. Put the paragraphs in the right order.
- •3. Here are the answers to some questions. Work out the questions.
- •4. There are three different pronunciation of the -ed in the regular past tenses.
- •11. Here are 12 words that appeared in Unit 16 and the explanation to them. Find the words according to their explanation.
- •1. Read the article from Flight International.
- •2. Translate the text into Russian in a written form and make a short summary of the article in your language.
- •8. Use the word combinations of Exercise 7 in the sentences of your own.
- •9. Try to use the words from the box to fill in the gap. Caution! Two words are not used.
- •Word list
- •Reading comprehension: Jet Propulsion.
- •1. Look at these six groups of words about planes. Choose the correct heading for each group from the list of headings below.
- •2. Read the text from the history of aviation. Jet propulsion
- •3. Find in the text some adjectives and adverbs in the Comparative or the Superlative degree:
- •7. Read the short piece of information about Concorde. Fill each gap with one of the following adjectives or adverbs.
- •8. Translate into English:
- •Word list
- •Reading comprehension:Careers in Aviation and at the airport
- •1. Here is a table with the names of jobs in aviation, followed by a list of definitions of the jobs. Match the jobs with the definitions, and write the definitions in the table.
- •2. Read the text. Careers in aviation and at the airport
- •3. Answer the questions to the text.
- •4. There are some examples of Present Perfect Tense in the text. Try to find these sentences and translate them into your language. Explain the usage of Present Perfect Tense.
- •5. Translate the sentences with the Infinitive into your language.
- •6. Find in the text synonyms to the following:
- •7. Give English equivalents for the following:
- •8. Use expressions of exercise 7 in the sentences of your own.
- •9. Translate into English:
- •Word list
- •Keys to exercises
- •1. There are different jobs for a general aviation pilot. Read the text. Fill each gap with one of the pilot's jobs.
- •The general aviation pilot
- •2. Choose the appropriate meaning.
- •3. Transfer the sentences from exercise 2 from Passive into Active.
- •4. Here are the definitions to the aviation words used in the text. Find them according to the indicated paragraph.
- •5. Pair work. Choose two pilot's jobs, ask and answer each other questions about them as if were a pilot.
- •6. Choose one of the pilot's jobs and speak about it.
- •7. Match English and Russian equivalents
- •8. Translate into English:
- •Word list
- •3. Read the text. Flight instruments
- •4. Answer the following questions to the text.
- •5. Speak about each of the instruments mentioned in the text. Use the following structure.
- •7. Use the word combinations given in Exercise 6 in the sentences of your own.
- •8. Here are 10 names of the flight instruments that appeared in Unit 21 and explanation to them. Find the words according to their explanation. Careful! Four names are not used!
- •Word list
- •Key to Exercise 2
- •3. Now try to make the same words tree, but this time, do not look at the tree you filled in or the list of the words.
- •4. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •5. Match a line in a with a line in b to define the words in italics. Use your dictionary if you want.
- •6. Read the text. Weather information for the pilot
- •7. Which of these remarks are true? Correct the false ones.
- •8. Answer the following questions to the text.
- •Word list
- •1. Read the text. London volmet service
- •2. Answer the questions to the text.
- •6. Match English and Russian equivalents.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •8. Here are 10 aviation terms and definitions to them. Try to match the terms with their definitions, memorize them.
- •Word list
- •1. Read the text and define five types of altitudes.
- •2. Find in the text synonyms for the following.
- •5. Put questions to the following answers from the text above.
- •6. Give definitions to the above mentioned different types of altitude. Word list
- •Key to Exercises
- •1. Read the text. Technology: enhanced vision system (evs)
- •2. Answer the questions to the text.
- •3. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •4. Match English and Russian equivalents.
- •5. Find in the text and give synonyms for the following.
- •6. Form adverbs from the following adjectives and translate pairs into your language.
- •Word list
- •Key to Exercises
- •1. Read the text.
- •2 Find in the text examples of sentences with modal verbs and explain their meaning. Read the review of modal verbs.
- •3. Answer the questions to the text.
- •4. Give synonyms from the text for the following.
- •5. Match the English and Russian equivalents.
- •6. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •8. Here are 10 words that appeared in Unit 26. Use them in the correct form to fill in the gaps.
- •Word list
- •2. Answer the questions to the text.
- •3. Which of the statements are true and which ones are false? Correct the false ones.
- •5. Give opposites for the following.
- •6. Write the opposite of words by adding these beginnings.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •8. Here are 10 words that appeared in Unit 27. Use them in the correct form to fill in the gaps.
- •Word list
- •3. Match the English and Russian equivalents.
- •5. Answer the questions, beginning each with: The function (purpose) of the … is to ...
- •6. Form nouns from the following verbs and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •7. Speak about:
- •8. Translate into English.
- •Word list
- •Weight and balance
- •2. Answer the questions to the text.
- •3. Here are the answers to questions. Work out questions.
- •4. Match the English and Russian equivalents.
- •5. Give synonyms from the text for the following.
- •6. Translate into English.
- •7. Here are 10 words that appeared in Unit 30. Use them in the correct form to fill in the gaps.
- •Word list
- •Key to Exercise 4
- •Weight and balance
- •2. Answer the questions to the text.
- •3. Here are the answers to questions. Work out questions.
- •4. Match the English and Russian equivalents.
- •5. Give synonyms from the text for the following.
- •6. Translate into English.
- •7. Here are 10 words that appeared in Unit 30. Use them in the correct form to fill in the gaps.
- •Word list
- •Key to Exercise 4
- •1. Read the text. Secondary surveillance radar
- •3. Match the English and Russian equivalents.
- •4. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •5. Here are 16 aviation terms and definition to them. Try to match the terms with their definitions. Memorize them.
- •6. Find in the text the example of different Future Tenses, translate them into your language and explain the difference.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •Word list
- •Key to Exercise 6
- •1. Read text 1. London heathrow
- •2. Answer the questions to text 1.
- •3. Read text 2. Departing flights at heathrow
- •4. Show the sequence for departing flights at Heathrow and speak using the pattern ‘control passes to’.
- •5. Read text 3. Arriving flights at heathrow
- •6. Show the sequence for arriving flights at Heathrow and speak.
- •7. Find in the texts words with opposite meaning to the following ones.
- •8. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •10. Here are 11 aviation terms and definitions to them. Try to match the terms with their definitions. Memorize them.
- •Word list
- •Key to Exercises
- •3. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •4. Find the words in the text to the following definitions.
- •Automatic Terminal Information Service (atis)
- •6. Find in exercises 1 and 4 examples of the verb in Passive Voice. Write the sentences out and translate them into your language.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •Wоrd lisт
- •Heathrow control tower
- •2. Answer the following questions to the text.
- •3. Decipher the following abbreviations.
- •4. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •6. Here are 8 aviation terms and definitions to them. Try to match the terms with their definitions. Memorize them.
- •Wоrd lisт
- •Key to Exercise 6
- •1. Read the text. Microwave landing systems
- •2. Which of the statements are true and which are false. Correct the false ones.
- •3. Choose the most correct answer.
- •4. Give synonyms for the following.
- •5. Write the opposite of these words by adding these beginnings
- •6. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •Wоrd lisт
- •Key to Exercises Exercise 4
- •1. Read the text. Fill in the blanks with one of the adjective forms given below. (Each adjective can be used more than once).
- •Control zones / control areas in the united kingdom
- •2. Answer the questions to the text.
- •3. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •4. Match a line in a with a line in b to make new words.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •6. Here are 5 aviation terms and definitions to them. Try to match the terms with their definitions. Memorize them.
- •Wоrd lisт
- •1. Read the text. Concorde - special arrangements
- •2. Answer the questions to the text.
- •3. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •4. Translate the word and word combinations into your language and back into English. Memorize them.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •6. Give words for the following.
- •Wоrd lisт
- •Key to Exercise 6
- •1. Read the text. Passenger information
- •2. Answer the questions to the text.
- •3. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •4.Use the words and combinations from Exercise 3 in the sentences of your own.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •6. Make this sound crossword. The words from the text should be given in transcription.
- •Clues Across
- •Wоrd lisт
- •Key to Exercise 6
- •1. Read the text. Traffic alert and collision avoidance systems (tcas)
- •2. Answer the questions to the text.
- •3. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •4. Translate into English.
- •Tcas - это сложный метод
- •5. Match a question word in a with an answer in b.
- •6. Work out full questions to Exercise 5 and give full answers.
- •7. Put the words in the correct order to make questions. Answer the questions.
- •Wоrd lisт
- •1. Read the text. Automatic dependent surveillance (ads)
- •3. Desipher the following abbreviations.
- •4. Give the English equivalents for the following.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •Word list
Keys to exercises
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1. start-up 2. push-back 3. taxi 4. line-up 5. take-off roll 6. take-off 7. climb 8. cruise 9. descent 10. approach 11. final approach 12. touch-down
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6. terminal building 3. intersection 11. satellite 5. tower 7. jetway 1. taxiway 10 holding area/ bay 4. high-speed turn-off 2. runway 12. holding point 8. passenger steps 9. threshold
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1. FOLLOW ME van 2. tug 3. GPU 4. fire truck 5. snow plough 6. fuel tanker 7. catering truck 8. shuttle bus 9. mobile lounge
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U N I T 9
Learning points: Reading comprehension: Hijack
Review points: Nouns that go together
1. Read a slightly abridged story by Robert l. Fish. Hijack
Five o'clock on a late summer afternoon, and the plane - a 727 tri-jet - at 28 000 feet approaching the Tennessee River Valley on a south-southwestern heading from Kennedy in New York to New Orleans.
A light flashed on the captain's intercom panel. The captain leaned over and pressed a button.
‘Yes?’
‘Captain, this is Сlarisse. We've got trouble.’
‘Trouble?’
‘A passenger is locked in the washroom with Milly. It's hijacking.’
The radioman was already at work, calling the New Orleans tower. The captain's face was stiff. He spoke into the microphone.
‘Clarisse?’
‘Yes, Captain?’
‘Put our OUT OF ORDER sign on the washroom door. Is Milly still all right?’
‘Yes, sir. Wait a second - she's saying something’ - there was a pause.
‘Hello, Captain. She says he wants the plane diverted to Jacksonwille. To refuel.’
‘Where does he want to go? We have more than enough fuel for Cuba. Better have Milly remind him this isn't a 747, however.’
‘Yes, sir. She didn't say anything else.’
‘He is on the seat chart as a Charles Wagner from Hartford. He was in seat sixteen C, on the aisle, I served him lunch when we left Kennedy...’
‘What did he look like?’
Clarisse sounded unsure of herself. ‘Like... like anybody, I guess. Middle thirties, hair a little long but getting thin...’
‘How much did he have to drink?’
‘Just a beer. I'm sure he wasn't drunk. What should I do?’
‘Nothing... And let me know if...’
The radioman spoke. ‘New Orleans tower. I've already identified.’
‘Mayday here,’ the captain said into the microphone. ‘We've got a hijacker on board.’
‘What condition?’
‘He has one of our stewardesses locked in a washroom. Armed.’
‘Where does he want to go?’
‘So far, just to JAX. For refueling, he says.’
‘Stand by’, said the voice. ‘I'll contact security and be back.’
In a few minutes a different voice was on the radio.
‘Captain Littlejohn? This is Security, New Orleans. You may change course to Jacksonwille.’
Clarisse's voice came back.
‘Captain?’
‘Yes?’
‘He wants money. A ransom for the passengers and the plane. He wants it waiting for him when we get there. Otherwise, he says he'll take Milly first and then blow up the plane.’
‘How much ransom?’
‘A... a quarter of a million dollars.’
Captain Littlejohn picked up his microphone.
‘New Orleans Security? Do you still read me?’
A different voice answered. ‘This is JAX. We read you loud and clear.’
‘The hijacker wants a quarter of a million of dollars.’
‘We heard. What else does he want?’
‘Yes, sir. Here's what he wants. The money in an overnight bag, nothing smaller than fifties, nothing bigger than hundreds, in the twenty-five-thousand dollar bundles. He wants the plane to land at the end of runway 725 at Jacksonwille, as far from the terminal as possible... He doesn't want anyone to come here. He says the passengers can get off. The money will be delivered, but no one can enter the plane. And he wants... two parachutes... That's all. So far. He says further instructions will be given when we're on the ground. We'll want to be cleared for landing on 725 regardless of wind direction.’
‘Roger.’
‘And what about the money he wants?’
‘It'll be there. As well as the parachutes.’
‘Good,’ Captain Littlejohn said.
The mike was switched off, attention was given to flying the plane. The plane banked smoothly into the air corridor. The plane began losing altitude. The co-pilot immediately began speaking with the tower. Captain took over the task of informing the passengers. He pressed the button.
‘Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain. Due to adverse weather conditions, we are forced to make our landing at the Jacksonwille, Florida, Airport. A company representative on the ground will explain the delay and arrange any necessary transportation. We regret this inconvenience. Now please, fasten your seat belts, bring your seats to the vertical position and observe the NO SMOKING – sign’…
The last passenger left the plane. Two men went out of the bus. One brought a small parachute in one hand and an overnight bag in the other; the second man carried a bigger parachute.
They climbed the steps, placed their loads on the floor of the plane without entering and departed.
Captain Littlejohn raised his microphone.
‘Clarisse ?’
‘Yes, Captain?’ ‘Where do you go from here?’
‘Captain he says first to head toward Miami. He wants you to maintain minimum flying speed, he says two hundred knots will do, and to stay at two thousand feet altitude. And he wants the rear passengers entrance door left locked from the outside...’
The plane took off. Littlejohn leveled off, following the coast a mile off-shore, then he put the plane into a bank.
Clarisse came back on, nervous.
‘Captain, he wants us to get up into the cockpit before he jumps, doesn’t want us to see...’
At last there was a knock on the door. It opened and two very nervous stewardesses came into the cockpit, shutting the door behind them.
‘Naples coming up,’ the radioman said.
The co-pilot went into the empty corridor of the plane. He walked to the other end of the plane and back into the cockpit and the door.
‘All clear.’
Captain Littlejohn switched off the microphone, ‘Well, children,’ he said, ‘it’s been a long day. Let's get some rest.’
‘Fifty thousand each,’ the captain said softly.
‘Not bad for a few hours work, plus a little careful planning.’
‘I ought to get more,’ Milly said. ‘Five long hours in a tiny room with a dead man.’
‘You?’ Clarisse said. ‘What about me? I had to push him out of the door.’
‘I had to kill him,’ the radioman said. The co-pilot was paying no attention to the complaints. He was putting his share in his attache case.
‘Charles Wagner...’ he said to none in particular.’ ‘The hard-luck guy who went to the john at the wrong time. I wonder what he did for a living.’