Review simple present

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Questions

Answer these questions:

1. When did you start your career in aviation?
2. What aspect of your job do you enjoy most?
3. Which airports have your worked at?
4. How many hours a week do you usually work on average?
5. When did you last experience a communication problem in English?
6. How often do you have to attend training courses?
7. How much language training will you have this year?
8. How long did you train to do your job?

Pronunciation exercises

Listen and repeat

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Airport Organization-landside

(Engineering / Aeronautics) the part of an airport farthest from the aircraft, the boundary of which is the security check, customs, passport control, etc.

• Shops
• Restaurants
• Restrooms
• check in areas

Organization in Airports- airside

Engineering / Aeronautics) the part of an airport nearest the aircraft, the boundary of which is the security check, customs, passport control, etc.

• runways
• taxiways
• stands
• apron

Weather Vocabulary part !

shower	llovizna
drizzle	llovizna
to drizzle	lloviznar
rain	lluvia
to rain	llover
to teem down	llover a cántaros
deluge	diluvio
flurry	ráfaga
downpour	lluvia torrencial
to pour down	llover torrencialmente
to hail	llover con granizo
hailstones	granizo
snow	nieve
to snow	nevar
slush	nieve derretida
frost	helada
ice	hielo

Types of Airplanes

Taken from http://typesofairplanes.com/

Airplanes are any aircraft that have fixed wings and depend on the laws of aerodynamic lift to get off the ground. They differ from dirigibles in that they don't stay in the air because of gas, and they are different from helicopters in that their wings do not rotate to generate the lift; rather, their wings are uni-directional, and the lift is caused by accelerating the plane by some means down a runway until it can reach the speed to life off. There are several different types of airplanes that are commonly in use today, and we'll divide them into two basic types of airplanes: jets and propeller planes.

Jets

Jets are probably what you think of when you think of airplanes. Jets are powered by jet engines, making these types of airplanes the fastest. Jet engines are built to shoot air or some other chemical out of a turbine, thus providing thrust to boost the plane forward. They are used in pretty much all commercial jets. The basic structure is a long tube, called a fuselage, with two large wings fixed to the side. Attached underneath each of these wings is a number of jet engines. There can be anything from 1 to as many as 8 engine jets, though typically 8 engines refers to a jet that is only used by the military or cargo shipping companies. For the most part, the jets you're riding on to get from place to place are going to be built by Boeing or a similar company, who then sells or leases them to airlines. Here are some types of jet airplanes:

747 - This is the jumbo jet. You probably haven't traveled on these unless you've gone on long trips crossing an ocean. Trips to China or Japan are on the 747. It's a plane that can hold hundreds of people, and it is particularly notable for having two stories, one for coach passengers and another for first class.

The Concorde - The Concorde is a retired airplane which used to do shuttle flights from New York or Washington to Paris or London. It was a supersonic jet, meaning it traveled faster than the speed of sound, and it was noted for getting from place to place incredibly quickly. This also produced a problem for local travel, as whenever a Concorde flies, it emits a sonic boom, which can be destructive in local areas. It was able to travel, at its fastest, at around 1,450 miles per hour. Its production and use was scrapped after a crash in 2003.

Prop Planes

There are a large number of different propeller-powered types of airplanes in the world. They pick up their speed not from a jet engine, but from a rotating propeller, which, much like a helicopter rotor, pushes the air in a certain direction - in this way, back, pushing the plane itself forward. Prop planes can't go anywhere near as fast as jet planes, but they are useful in a number or ways, partly because they require less runway space and therefore have the ability to get to more secluded places that may have only an airstrip, rather than a full-fledged runway. They are also more efficient for transporting a small number of passengers a shorter distance. There are a number of different types of prop planes. Here are some:

Biplane - Biplanes are planes with two wings. They usually have one wing above the fuselage, and another below. These types of planes were the first ones ever flown, and were dominant during the beginning of aviation. Now they are more or less an anachronism, used for not much more than aviation shows and historical enthusiast purposes.

Seaplane - These are planes which can take off and land on water. This makes them incredibly useful and valuable, as they can get to places with no landing strip whatsoever, as long as there is a decent sized lake or ocean nearby for them to land on. This isn't to say they can land on any water conditions. Rough seas are not a good place for a seaplane to land. Seaplanes really need to be landing on almost perfectly calm water. This makes lakes and bays and coves an ideal place for seaplanes to land. Seaplanes can work one of two ways: they can float on the fuselage, or they can float on pontoons, which are placed where the wheels would typically be. The fuselage planes are called "flying boats," because essentially they can function as either. Typically, flying boats are much larger than the pontoon planes, which are also known as "floatplanes." There are also many amphibious planes, which have the ability to land on water or land.

There are many, many different other types of planes, such as the engine-less glider, or the stealth bomber, or the fighter jet. Airplane technology is constantly being improved on, and is increasingly becoming a standard method of travel. Crashes are relatively rare, making them significantly safer than automobiles, but crashes tend to be widely advertised, giving them a stigma that often scares passengers away. But seriously, fear not: airplanes are awesome.