Page 52 - Grasp English B2 (Student Book)

4 Departures

The busiest air route, between Hong Kong and Taiwan,
carries 680,000 passengers per month.
An average commercial plane travels at 35,000 feet. C. 4.1 Listen and put the sentences from
That’s about seven miles above the surface of the Earth. 1.
exercise B on page 49.
The outside temperature is around -65ºF while flying.
That’s colder than almost anywhere on Earth at any given 2.
moment of the year.
More than twenty flights took off while you were reading 3.
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these notes.
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D. Listen again and complete the sentences with up to three words from the recording.

1. At the start of the safety briefing, the flight attendant welcomes passengers .
2. You should always if you open an overhead locker in case items fall out.
3. Passengers to use laptops or other large electronic items until the plane is in the air.
4. Any electronic device, such as smartphones, should be in for the whole journey.
5. They often recommend keeping your seatbelt in case there is unexpected turbulence.
6. There are usually emergency exits at the front, and over the wings.
7. You should only your life vest when you’re outside the plane.

8. If you’re wearing , you have to take them off if the plane lands on water.

• Flying is greener than you think. Although planes might
seem like flying factories, global air travel accounts for
just 2% of humans’ annual CO emissions.
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• Air travel is by far the safest form of travel. In spite of high-profile incidents like the Malaysia
Airlines disappearance, only twenty-four of every one-million departures (about 0.000024%) of
every year.
airline departures result in a fatal crash. By contrast, 1.3 million people die in road accidents

E. Discuss with a partner.
1. Do you usually pay attention to the safety briefing on planes?
2. Do you think it’s better to have a live safety briefing or a video?

3. What language(s) do you think the safety briefing should be given in?
4. If a passenger doesn’t listen to the safety briefing, do you think there should be consequences?

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