Ex.5 Insert prepositions or post-verbal adverbs

1. Will you please hand this suitcase…? I am not tall enough.

2. When I arrived… the station the platform was crowded… the movement, as the 5 o’clock train hadn’t yet gone…. People burdened… suitcases and parcels were rushing… all directions … and … … the outlets … the tearooms. Children were looking… … the windows, their faces excited… the thoughts… the journey…. … the window I could see a little girl burst…. the compartment shouting something… a young woman who had just settled herself… … the cushions… a book… her hand. A woman… a leather bag… her feet was standing…one… the carriages searching her bag… the ticket. She had surely been running as she was sadly… … breath. I looked… …the clock. Helen would arrive… a quarter… an hour. I started when a voice… the announcer burst… speech directly… my head and announced the departure… the 5 o’clock train… Kiev… platform 6. It suddenly shut itself… … a click and five minutes later announced the arrival… the train I had been waiting… I knew that my friend travelled… the rear… the train, so I went… the platform. I entered the compartment and helped Helen to hand… the suitcases. Helen did look worn… … the journey as she had to change trains twice.

Travelling by Air

Customs hall таможенный зал

Customs officer офицер таможенной службы

passport паспорт

boarding card посадочный талон

captain командир

air hostess бортпроводница

air steward бортпроводник

(air)plane (airliner) самолет

fuselage фюзеляж

wing крыло

jet engine реактивный двигатель

(tail) fin хвостовой киль

glider планер

helicopter вертолет

light aircraft легкий самолет

propeller пропеллер

runway взлетная полоса

control tower аэродромно-диспетчерский пункт

hangar ангар

flight полет

non-stop flight беспосадочный полет

visibility видимость

altitude высота

gather speed набирать скорость

cruising speed крейсерская скорость

taxi (v) выруливать (на взлетной полосе)

take off взлетать, взлет

land/make a landing совершить посадку

forced landing вынужденная посадка

fair (cross, head) winds попутный (боковой, встречный) ветер

rock (v.) качаться (взад и вперед)

hit an air pocket попасть в воздушную яму

loop петля

spin штопор

wingover вираж

air crash авиакатастрофа

hijack (a plane) угнать (самолет)

seat-belt (safety belt) привязные ремни

to fly at an altitude of лететь на высоте

to fly at a speed of лететь со скоростью

visibility is good, poor, nil хорошая.плохая, нулевая видимость

all weather flying полеты в любую погоду