Unit Objectives
Pilot / Air Traffic Controller & Aircraft Components

Vocabulary and activities centered around being a pilot, an air traffic controller, etc.

Asking Questions

Students learn the difference between direct and indirect questions, as well as how to form question tags.

Phrasal Verbs

Students learn the most common phrasal verbs that use the particles in, out, away, and back.

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Listening Speaking Grammar
11-1 Chief Pilot

Activity based on a fictional interview with a Chief Pilot. Activity serves as a preview to Grammar 11-1.

11-2 Careers in Aviation

Activity based on short recordings of people describing what aviation career they would prefer.

11-3 Air Traffic Controller

Activity that reviews the use of question tags in a conversation about one person's desire to become an Air Traffic Controller.

11-1 Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity. 

11-2 Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

11-3 Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

11-4 Speaking Pairs #1

Students convert direct questions to indirect ones.

11-5 Speaking Pairs #2

Students practice using noun clauses in sentences that begin with "I don't know".

11-6 Bag of Items

Students practice question tags in making assumptions about others in the class.

11-7 You Think Maybe...

Students practice using question tags in checking for information.

11-8 Assumptions

Students make assumptions about their partners using question tags.

11-9 Phrasal Verbs Discussion

Students discuss answers to questions that incorporate phrasal verbs studied in Grammar 11-3.

11-1 Indirect Questions

Students learn and practice the differences between direct and indirect questions.

11-2 Question Tags

Students learn the two kinds of questions tags and how they are formed.

11-3 Phrasal Verbs

The most common phrasal verbs (in, out, away and back) as well as the basic rules for using phrasal verbs are described.

Reading Use of English Writing
Reading 11-1 Three Aviation Interviews

Reading activity based on three aviation interviews. Activity previews the topic of question tags.

 
11-1 Air Traffic Controllers

Four short conversations that serve as a lead in to Grammar 11-3.

11-2 Famous Aviators

Students research Wikipedia entries about different aviators and then give a presentation about what they learned.

11-1 Subject Verb Agreement

Students review subject verb agreement and learn about collective nouns.

11-2 Contrast Linking Words

Students learn different ways of expressing contrasting ideas in their sentences.

11-3 Paragraph

Students write a paragraph on life as a celebrity.

Vocabulary

airline pilot

airworthiness

autopilot

aviation GPS

barnstorming

bush pilot

captain

chief pilot

civil pilot

clearance delivery

cockpit

constant-speed propeller

control tower simulator

domestic pilot

emergency locator transmitter

flight management system

flight progress strips

float

forecast

general aviation

Greenwich Mean Time

ground control

headset

helicopter

high performance aircraft

International Civil Aviation Organization phraseology

Instrument Flight Rules Controller

international pilot

juggle

landing gear

listen

military pilot

multi engine

On the Job Instructor

opportunity

propeller

radar sector

Red Bull

remote location

rescue helicopter

retractable landing gear

safety

senior pilot

ski

unique aircraft

Very High Frequency radios

weather briefing

weather radar

working

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