1. Listening / Speaking

Before you listen, discuss the following questions:

1. Is travelling by aeroplane safe?

2. What problems do pilots face while they are flying? Name some.

A. Jim, Mary and their father are
travelling on an aeroplane.
Listen to their dialogue.
What was the in-flight
problem discussed? Where
was the plane travelling to?

B. Listen again and complete the sentences:

1. While the plane was flying above the ocean, it _________________ a dive.

2. The airhostess _________________ coffee and the passenger next to Jim's father _________________

3. Jim's father _________________ a magazine.

4. Jim's father _________________ his prayers when he heard the captain's voice.

C. The next day Jim went to the school library to find more information about planes and how they fly. Here are some pictures he found:

PICTURE A

Can you help Jim match the four
forces with the correct direction?

The four forces
of flight

PICTURE B

Look at the pictures of the planes below, read the information
and write T (true) or F (false) next to statements 1-4:

A. TALKING ABOUT THE PAST TIME

1. Complete the sentence in the Grammar Box:

Past Continuous – Past Simple

I was flying over the ocean when the plane took a dive.

While I ____________________ my prayers, I ________________ the captain's calm voice.

I was f lying over the ocean when…  …the plane took a dive

2. Now complete the rule with a or b:

a. a past event  b. a longer activity that sets the scene in the past

When the Past Continuous and the Past Simple appear in the same sentence the Past Continuous describes ____________ and the Simple Past describes ____________

B. USING LINKING WORDS
(at) first, then, after that, when, while, as, later,
finally, (at) last

1. Study the examples in the Grammar Box to see how
to use linking words:

Linking words

As the Wright brothers were growing up, they were repairing and fixing things.

First, they made kites and sold them to classmates.

Then, they opened a bicycle shop and repaired bicycles.

Later, they used the money for their first flight experiments.

Finally, they flew the first plane in 1903.

2. Now, write your own sentences using the linking words that don't appear
in the Grammar Box: after that, when, while, in the end.

A. THE MISSING LUGGAGE

You are waiting for your flight at

the airport when you realise that

your handbag is

missing. Ask a

security officer

for help. Tell him/her

what you and the

people around you were doing.