Unit Objectives
Circuits

Students practice vocabulary related to the topic including types of IFR and VFR circuits.
Modal Auxiliary Verbs

Students review structure common to all modal verbs and explore the multiple meanings of several of them.
Necessity & Advice

Students practice the language used to ask for and give advice as well as to express obligations.
Requests

Students learn how to use certain modal verbs and phrases to make requests or offers.
Sentence Punctuation

Students review rules on when to use capital letters as well as how to punctuate the end of sentences.

  

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Listening Speaking Grammar
4-1 Homework

Four people describe what they have for homework. Activity serves as a preview for Grammar 4-1.

4-2 Online Reading

Listening activity based on different people’s experiences with reading online. Activity reinforces student comprehension of unit vocabulary.

4-3 Just an Aviation Manual

Listening activity based on a discussion about two people's interest in aviation. 
4-1 Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity.

4-2 Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

4-3 Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

4-4 What’s the Job?

Students guess jobs by asking each other about the job’s responsibilities.

4-5 Speaking Pairs

Students present sentences to each other so that their partners create a sentence with the same meaning using modal verbs of obligation.

4-6 Problems

Students act out situations in an effort to elicit sentences of advice from fellow group members.

4-7 Giving Advice

Students are presented with fictitious problems they are having in life. Other group members offer advice.

4-8 Had Better

Students discuss situations in which they can say the given sentences containing "had better."

4-9 Requests

Students are presented with prompts that they use with a partner to elicit requests in different grammatical forms.
4-1 Expressing Necessity

Students review basic form and structure of modal auxiliary verbs as well as focus on the different modal verbs and phrases used to describe obligation and necessity.

4-2 Advice & Suggestions

Students practice modals and other popular phrases used to give and ask for advice as well as suggestions.

4-3 Making Requests

Students learn the modal verbs and phrases commonly used when making requests and offers.
Reading Use Of English Writing
Reading 4-1 Wright Brothers

A reading activity about the biography of the Wright Brothers.

 
4-1 Can I Ask You a Favour?

Four short conversations that serve as a lead in to Grammar 4-3.

4-2 Famous Aviators

Students research and present their findings about different Aviators.
4-1 Capitalization & End Punctuation

Students learn when to use capital letters and how to punctuate the end of their sentences.

4-2 Proofreading

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

4-3 Paragraph

Students write an opinion-based paragraph on how flight instructors encourage students to fly better circuits..
Vocabulary

airfield

airspace

altitude

approach

base

characteristic

checklist

circuit

clearance

communicate

compass

crossing

departure

downwind

emergency

enter

excessive

expect

flight log

flight plan

frequency

gate

helicopter

information

instruction

layout

left hand

leg

lower

manually

midfield

minimum

Noise abatement

operational

parallel

pattern

phraseology

procedure

pushback

radar

recreational

regulation

report

right hand

rotating

secondary

separation

solo

speed

standard

theory

touch and go

traffic

vertical

visibility

whiz wheel
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