Exercise 7

1. At the exam you could be asked to tell about different non-standard situations that you have experienced during your flights.

You can be asked the following questions:

− Have you ever experienced a situation like this: (Do you know anybody who has?) (engine fire (failure), depressurization, bird strike (hit, ingestion), take-off aborting (rejecting), returning to the airport after departure, fuel dumping (burning), severe turbulence, CAT, medical problems on board (loss of consciousness/unconscious passenger, passengers with heart attack, acute pain……)?

− What was the situation caused by? How did you deal with it?

− What did you learn from this experience?

2. Describe your dialogue with a controller in reported speech (indirect speech).

3. Use sequence of tenses. Note the word order in reported questions.

Example: The controller asked if we requested landing priority.

4. Use the cause and effect language:

…caused….could cause… was caused by… was due to…as a result…led to… the reason was… resulted in… could result from… so… because…

Example:

Engine failure was caused by (was due to) the bird ingestion.

Severe turbulence led to (resulted in) the injuries among passengers.

In fact, something very similar happened to me. (A friend of mine (the crew of the company…) had a similar problem once). When we took off… I could see (hear)… I saw (heard)…The situation (the problem) was caused by… We were flying… There was (were) …. We were able… We didn’t need… We requested….I advised the controller that we were maintaining FL… The controller instructed us to…The controller asked us if we could accept heading… The controller asked us what our intentions were.

º Exercise 8.

Listen to the controller’s report, pay attention to the use of sequence of tenses.

Retell the story, using indirect speech.

6. Make sure you know how to use Modal verbs.