GENERAL AVIATION ENGLISH FOR STUDENT PILOTS

1.

Objective

At the end of the class, student pilots are able to read, to

listen, and to carry out a conversation in good English

2.

Duration

28 teaching hours (3,5 days)

3.

Course Outline

NO

SUBJECT

1.

Personal Information
a. Listening and Speaking
- Exchange personal and career related information
- Listen to a biographical information
- Ask and answer questions related to experience
- Listen for information about aviation jobs
b. Reading and Writing
- Read a personal profile
- Write a personal profile
c. Language
- Recognize and use vocabulary
- Use the present simple for personal situations,
habits, and routines
- Recognize the use of present continuous
- Revise the use of past simple
Products and services at the airport
a. Listening and Speaking
- Describe objects
- Make complaints
- Identify key information in airport announcements
b. Reading and Writing
- Read a comparative text about airports
- Recognize and use vocabulary associated with
aerodrome features
- Use language for describing directions
c. Language
- Recognize and use the language of quantity and
proportion
- Conduct a class survey and report your results
- Express unknown or uncertain numbers and
quantities
- Practice using countable and uncountable nouns
- Make comparisons

2.

NO

SUBJECT

3.

Holidays and travel

a. Listening and Speaking
- Extract key information from announcements and
recorded messages
- Practice exchanging information
b. Reading and Writing

TEACHING
HOURS
7

TEACHING
HOURS
7

- Describe neutral features

- Read travel plans and itineraries
- Recognize passages from different types of texts
c. Language
- Recognize and use vocabulary
- Describe destinations using adjectives and
modifying adverbs
- Use there is/there are and has/have to describe
places and quantity
- Talk about experiences using present perfect and
past simple
- Talk about current activities using present perfect
continuous
- Discuss aircraft specifications and compare aircraft
Aviation history and disasters
a. Listening and Speaking
- Listen to and identify the sequence of events in a
narrative
- Practice using narrative tenses
- Use time expressions in narratives
- Listen to specific information
- Listen to a talk about early flight
b. Reading and Writing
- Revise using language for describing position
- Use techniques to improve reading speed
- Recognize the use of referents in a text
c. Language
- Recognize the purpose of the past simple and past
continuous
- Use time conjunction
- Understand the use of past perfect
- Recognize the use of the past perfect
Revision lessons

Test

4.

2
2

TOTAL
4.

Activities/Methodologies

Listening, Speaking, Writing, Pair Work, Group Work

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