Unit Objectives
NAVAIDS & Navigation

Students learn NAVAIDS and navigation and participate in activities about air navigation.
The Past & Present

Students review and expand understanding of the Present Perfect.
Vocabulary Expansion: Participial Adjectives

Students are introduced to the form and use of adjectives that stem from verbs.

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Listening Speaking Grammar
8-1 Introduction to GPS

Two people discuss the Global Positioning System (GPS).

8-2 Aviation Navigation Changes

Listening activity based on recordings of what ten people do within the air navigation system. Listening activity contains several words from unit vocabulary and acts as a review of Grammar 8-1 and preview of Grammar 8-2.

8-3 Saving Flight Miles

Listening activity based on one man’s description of his experience working in the air navigation system. Listening activity contains several words from unit vocabulary.
8-1 Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity.

8-2 Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

8-3 Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

8-4 Speaking Pairs

Students practice describing present situations in both the Present and Present Perfect tenses.

8-5 News

Students announce fictional news to their group and further discuss the details in the past tense.

8-6 Describing Photos

Students describe what has been happening recently based on what they see in photos.

8-7 Present Perfect Conversation

Students practice different usages of the Present Perfect in a free discussion.

8-8 Navigation Points of Discussion

Students practice converting sentences that contain verbal phrases to adjectives.

8-9 Participle Discussion

Students discuss answers to conversation questions that employ participial adjectives used to describe feelings.
8-1 Connecting Past & Present #1

Students expand their understanding of the Present Perfect Simple by learning that it is a way to focus on connecting finished past actions with the present.

8-2 Connecting Past & Present #2

Students learn that the Present Perfect Continuous can also be used to describe present situations.

8-3 Participial Adjectives

Students learn that many adjectives come in the form of present or past participles.
Reading Use of English Writing
8-1 Four International Airports

Reading activity about the airports of Kuala Lumpur, San Francisco, Vancouver and London. Activity also serves as a review of Grammar 8-1 and 8-2.

 
8-2 Navigational Aids/Equipment

Four short conversations that serve as a lead in to Grammar 8-3.
8-1 Spacing

Proper spacing rules are introduced and practiced in an exercise.

8-2 Proofreading

Students do a proofreading exercise, finding and correcting mistakes in a paragraph.

8-3 Paragraph

Students write a paragraph describing what their city has done to reduce pollution and decide whether the city has done enough.
Vocabulary

airborne

airspace

airway

approach

avionics

beacon

chart

computer

cross-country

departure

direction finding

display

Distance Measuring Equipment (DME)

Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT)

Flight Information Region

Flight Management System

glide slope

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Instrument Landing System (ILS)

instrumentation

light gun

localizer

monitor

Navigational Aid

navigation

Non Directional Beacon

planning

pooling

radar

radial

safety

satellite

Standard Instrument Departure (SID)

Standard Terminal Arrival Route (STAR)

strobe

technician

technology

vector

Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range combined with Tactical Air Navigation (VORTAC)

Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range (VOR)

Very High Frequency (VHF)

visibility

Visual Approach Slope Indicator System (VASIS)

weather

workload
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