Page 40 - Grasp English B2 (Workbook)

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D. Complete the sentences with the correct modal structure.

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1. We the alarm for earlier – then we wouldn’t have needed to rush to the airport.

2. It quite scary for pilots to land in Gibraltar before they made the runway longer.
3. You any particular subjects at school to start training as a pilot.
4. People so many unnecessary flights if they’d known how it damages the
environment.
5. If you had wanted a coffee at the airport, you me!
6. The Spanish government a new airport in Castellón – it’s never been used.
7. Flight attendants lots of training to prepare them for any type of emergency.
8. I can’t believe she’s not here! She’s going to miss the flight! She her alarm go off.

E. Discuss each situation with a partner. What should they have done?

1. Steve got stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the airport and missed his flight.
2. Gemma arrived at the airport and realised her ticket was for the day before.

3. Julio overslept and missed his flight.
4. The Friedman family arrived at the airport and had to pay for excess baggage.
5. Yuan and Tai went into the city centre during a stopover in Dubai and missed their next flight.

6. Valentina bought a bottle of water at the airport then couldn’t take it through security.

F. Look at the images and speculate with a
partner about the situations. Use the modal
verb structures from exercise A on the previous
page.
• The helicopter might have had engine problems.

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