Monday, February 24, 2014

SESSION NO. 01
28/02/2014
READING ACTIVITIES: 
Page 8 of our Textbook. (Unit 1 - Runway Incursions)
Pages 1 through 4 of THE LITTLE PRINCE


LISTENING ACTIVITIES
Watch the video about Los Rodeos accident in 1977.


SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
-We shall introduce ground operations and debate about its dangers.
-Comparison between the poem In the Desert by Stephen Crane and Saint-Exupery experience in the Sahara. Remember the poem we read and commented last Friday? Just in case you did not note it down.

In the Desert

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;

“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”


USEFUL LINKS
(DOWNLOADABLE AND PRINTABLE PDF FILES)

FUNCTIONS

LINKING WORDS

TYPICAL MISTAKES IN ENGLISH

IDIOMS

AVIATION COMMUNICATIONS

AVIATION MANUAL AND GLOSSARY



Sunday, February 23, 2014

Hi guys, from now on this blog will be our site to share information, upload files and offer our comments and opinions. I have discarded the facebook group for several reasons and have chosen a blog format instead. Hope you like the design and the accessibility of the info available for our Friday sessions.
Tomorrow I shall upload the materials needed for session no.1. I shared the textbook by a different means, via email.

So welcome to the blog and enjoy the picture we took a couple of weeks ago when preparing our ICAO Proficiency Test. We had fun, a nice lunch. We have to do it again.