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Paris Airshow 2015 preview answers

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. The debut of the Bombardier CS300 is the first must-see attraction.
  2. The CS300 has the majority of the orders compared to the CS100.
  3. They don’t have a lot of orders for these planes yet.
  4. Airbus will have the A350-900 on display for the first time in the Paris Airshow.
  5. Military planes.
  6. There are question marks over their participation because some of their most popular warbirds and companies won’t be in Paris.
  7. Recruiting and training skilled staff to meet the demand for planes that they have.

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Paris Airshow 2015 preview

Here’s an interesting video that describes the 2015 Paris Airshow. Watch it and follow along with the news as it happens in Paris.

Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. What’s the first must-see attraction mentioned in the video?
  2. How does the CS300 compare to its smaller brother in terms of sales?
  3. What’s the problem that Bombardier has with the CSeries?
  4. What will Airbus have to offer at the show?
  5. Which other categories of planes, apart from commercial, will be on display in Paris?
  6. Why are there question marks over the US and Russian participation at the show?
  7. What is the aerospace industry’s biggest challenge at the moment?

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What can you expect from this year’s Paris air show? #PAS15

Flightglobal’s Murdo Morrison highlights the potential stories and themes from this year’s Paris air show (#PAS15), including news on Bombardier’s CSeries, Airbus at their home show, and what we can expect from each day’s aerial display. For more news, opinion and analysis from the show, check out Flightglobal’s coverage at flightglobal.com/paris.

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Structure: Verbs + prepositions 1

Fly High English - Structure

Instead of the usual post, this week we decided to do something different and publish an element of the structure of English that students have difficulty with.

This time in our structure help we talk about verbs and prepositions. Which verbs can use ‘to’ after them? Take a look at the diagram below to see some of the most common verbs that can use ‘to’ after them. It’s important to remember that ‘to’ is only one possible preposition with these verbs, some of these verbs can use other prepositions too. Read the examples, write some examples yourself and read them out loud to become more familiar with them.

A diagram of verbs used with 'to'.
Verbs with ‘to’

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Private escort

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

An A330 was en route to its destination when, about 90 minutes before its estimated arrival time, two fighter aircraft were sent to escort it to the airport. Somebody had made a phone call to police saying that there was a chemical weapon on board the plane. The aircraft continued for a safe landing at its destination and taxied to a remote apron, where the aircraft and everybody on board was searched. Nothing unusual was found and the plane and its passengers were cleared to continue their journeys.

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Private escort

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You should try to write everything that is said.

You can listen as many times as you want.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 4+

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Difficult words: fighter aircraft (n.), escort (v.), chemical weapon (n.)

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HondaJet nears delivery answers

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. Over 2,500 flight hours have been logged.
  2. It’s taken so long because it has had many technical problems during its development.
  3. It could be an advantage because the market for light jets is going to improve in the near future.
  4. It’s built from very light composite materials, it has a new engine developed by Honda and GE and an original approach to aerodynamics in relation to the positioning of the engine.
  5. The cruising speed is 420kn at 43,000ft.

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