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TRAVELLING BY AIR

LESSON 8

GRAMMAR: MASS AND COUNT NOUNS: A, SOME, ANY, MUCH, MANY, A LOT OF

The following sentences describe what you do when you go to an airport to catch a plane, but they are in the wrong order.

Read them carefully and put them in the right order.

You go to the departure lounge.

You get a trolley.

You arrive at the airport.

You go to your gate.

You go to the check-in desk.

You go to the duty-free shop.

You get a boarding card.

You board the plane.

You check in your luggage.

You look at the departure board to see if your flight is boarding yet.

The board tells you which gate to go to.

You go through passport control.

Make a similar diagram about travelling by air as about travelling by train. You decide what groups to have.

3. Расположите описания действий пассажира, прилетающего в аэропорт, в правильной последовательности.

What is the order of events when you fly into an airport? Begin like this:

The plane lands.

You unfasten your seat-belt.

You will now read an extract from a book called Airport International. It is about the beginning of air travel and its growth over the years. (The extract mentions Southend, which is a town on the south-east coast of England). Read the text. Fill each gap with one of the following verb forms.

approaching seen	grown	operating
jammed built	tops	become
shares	jumped

FLYING – THEN AND NOW

My first flight was from Paris to Portsmouth in 1959. The pilot arrived late, with the stewardess. He wore a leather coat, old trousers, and Wellington boots. The stewardess had holes in her stockings and wore mirrored sunglasses. They both went into the cockpit without a word.

When we were (a)……. the English coast, the stewardess appeared in the cabin. She was still wearing the sunglasses, but her lipstick was smudged. 'Southend? Anyone for Southend?' she shouted. The boy in front of me put up his hand. The DC3 suddenly landed. The boy was shown the door and he (b)…….. down onto the grass field, and we took off again. The steward­ess went back into the cockpit. I remember thinking at the time that flying wouldn't always be like this.

And I was right. In 30 years, international travel has completely changed, and the world has (c)……. a global village. Crossing the world is as easy as (sometimes easier than) getting from one side of a city to another. The world of air travel has developed into a huge industry.

The airports themselves are remarkable places: Paris's strange and space-like Charles de Gaulle, or Dallas/Fort Worth with its Texan vastness. There are airports which are almost (d)………with the number of arrivals and departures, like Chicago's O'Hare or Tokyo's Haneda; and there are deserted airports like Tanzania's Kilimanjaro, lying beneath the snows of that great mountain, waiting for the tourists who have never arrived.

But probably one of the greatest of them all is London's Heathrow, which (e)……. the list of both international flights and international passengers. In 1989, it handled 355,000 flights and over 38 million passengers with 57 million items of luggage. It has (f)……… into a city in its own right, employing 53,000. Like all the great airports, it dates back only to the last days of the Second World War.

The first runway was (g)…….. on the flat land near the village of Staines in 1944. It was a place of historic interest. One of the most important Anglo-Saxon temples is buried under Terminal Two, and the village of Heathrow is now under the main car park. The airport has ghosts. A Saxon prince has been (h)……… near the ponds, where he drowned, and an outlaw rides through the cargo sheds, with a three-cornered hat and a black horse. Heathrow has been (i)……… as an international airport since 1 January 1946, when a British South American Airways Lancastrian took off into the morning mists on a flight to Buenos Aires. In February 1952, the Queen arrived from Entebbe to set foot on British soil for the first time as monarch.

Since those early days, constant building has been necessary to deal with the growth of air traffic and the demands of air travellers. How­ever, Heathrow (j)……. the same problems as all big airports-too many planes, too many people, and too much crime. It is the centre-point of the great air routes between Europe and North America in one direction, and between Europe and the Gulf, Africa, and Asia in the other. It is alive with all the citizens of this strange world, rich and poor, honest and dishonest. It is the Airport International par excellence.

Here are summaries of the seven paragraphs.

Match them to the correct paragraph.

a.Heathrow, one of the world’s biggest airports

b. The growth of international travel

c. An unusual stopover

d.Some airports around the world

e.The crew on an early flight

f.Heathrow, its growth and its problems

g.The history of Heathrow

Answer the questions:

1. What point is the writer making in the first two paragraphs?

2. What do the crew usually do during a flight today? In what way was the writer’s first experience of flying different from the routines of today?

3. What do you understand by the term ‘global village’?

4. What are some of the facts that make Heathrow a remarkable airport?

5. What do you understand by the following line from paragraph 7 ‘(Heathrow) is alive with all the citizens of this strange world...’?

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