Arabterm Technical Dictionary Online: http://www.arabterm.org/index.php?id=1&L=1
ICAO phonetic alphabet and number pronunciations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Good interactive site on pilot knowledge: http://www.pilotfriend.com/
Aviation Eng 175 Semester 2
Week 26 Speaking tests
Study Guide
Description of the test
http://www.tea-test.com/
Describing pictures in ICAO Aviation English tests =
Study the PowerPoint giving situations and vocabulary to describe them <== Download HERE
More accident pictures:
Model recordings
Model Recording 1
Task: Describe this picture of an plane taking off with insufficient lift
(This happens to be a plane flown automatically by computer, no pilots or passengers we hope :-)
The frame above is from: http://youtu.be/-7vcMqjSoqU (video unavailable in Oct 2014)
Listen to Thaer's description <=== HERE
Read the TRANSCRIPT of his description (slightly improved version)
From what I’ve seen there’s an aircraft trying to take off. It’s a civilian aircraft.
It’s trying to take off but apparently it doesn’t have enough lift to go up in the air.
And the pilot seems to be struggling, trying to lift the plane up in the air, but he can’t do that.
From what I can see, he’s out of runway, but even though he didn’t have enough lift he decided to take off,
which apparently got him into the trees right at the end of the runway.
He has no option, he’s trying to ditch the plane using the trees as a cushion.
At the end there is a big fireball and smoke, I guess from the engines or the fuel.
Since the airplane just took off, it’s full of jet fuel.
Model Recording 2
Describe this picture of a pilot experiencing extreme wind shear on landing
(In the video the pilot barely manages to abort the landing and go around for another attempt)
The frame above is from: http://youtu.be/32tD0kdQHDM (link redirects to playlist in Oct 2014)
Listen to Charbel's description <=== HERE
Read the TRANSCRIPT of his description (slightly improved version)
In this picture there is an aircraft trying to land on the runway
But the pilot is facing a big difficulty because of the strong crosswind that we can see in the picture
And what you need to do in the crosswind is that you apply full rudder in the direction of the crosswind
Like the pilot is trying to do here in order to try and land
And the thing is that it’s very dangerous and you need to be careful
And at the moment of touchdown if you can’t land and you find it risky to land
You need to increase the power again and climb and take off again to do a turn
And retry landing because you cannot just go for it if you find it risky when the wind is strong
And also you have to bank into the wind when you bring the plane down
and then bring it level again just before you touch down
You need to adapt to what is happening with any particular situation
Now you do it
Instructions for making recordings and correcting them in the ILC or classroom
Download the instructions given to you in the ILC (and see how this is marked) <=== Here
- Use the opportunity your teacher has given each of you to make a recording (30 points)
- Listen to your recording and transcribe it (35 points)
- Use WORD to write down what you said
- Make as many corrections and improvements to your English (grammar and vocabulary) as you can
- Submit your transcription to your teacher using one of these means (35 points)
- Work from the printout your teacher has given you OR
- paste the contents of your word document to the online space created for you
Student Recordings and transcriptions in PiratePad files
If you made a 1-minute recording of your description of a picture (you earned 30 points) ...
Your teacher has listened to your recording and written exactly what you said in your PiratePad file.
Your teacher will bring you a printout from that file to class (You get 35 more points)
- Read your transcript and make any corrections or improvements you can.
- Show your work to another students for more help.
- Give your corrected work to your teacher
(you can get up to 35 more points, depending on quality of your work)
Section 1
Mohammed Hefaity, Hazza and Faisal negotiated the corrections and improvements below with the teacher -
Listen to Hazza's recording here
Read the TRANSCRIPT of his improved description
From what I can see, an aircraft is making an emergency landing. I guess … I think it might have stalled at low speed, so apparently, that’s what might have happened. That’s what happens when you fly at low speed, you might lose control of your aircraft and you might stall, or even worse, you might spin, or even crash.
The picture shows how the aircraft was flying at a low speed while it was trying to take off, but unfortunately the pilot was unable to do so.
Faisal - Listen to your recording here
Here is what Faisal said in the recording:
We had a military aircraft at height about 1000 ft and he tried to descend but when he descend he descend at very high speed and he did not pull the throttle back to reduce the speed. He descending very fast then he touched the ground at very high speed. Then the parachute goes out from the aircraft to reduce the speed. The aircraft is still moving fast on the runway and the aircraft has crashed. I think the throttle is not functioning.
Here is what Faisal might have said to improve his performance:
In this picture I see a military aircraft flying at an altitude of about 1000 feet. He is trying to descend, but he is attempting to land at too high a speed. As the pilot descended he did not pull the throttle back to reduce the speed. He approached the runway too fast and touched down at a dangerous speed. The pilot deployed a parachute to try and reduce the speed, but the aircraft was moving too fast on the runway and crashed. I think the most likely cause of the accident was that the throttle was not functioning.
Mohamed Ahmed Hefaity - Listen to his recording here
How can you best prepare for your speaking test?
- Practice! Record yourself describing a picture
- If you have made a recording your teacher will transcribe it for you and give you a printout
- Make corrections on the printout and bring them to your teacher
- Your teacher will go over this with you and help you produce an improved version
Muntaser - Listen to your recording here
Mohamed Ahmed Al Sereidi - Listen to your recording here
Saeed Sulaiman - Listen to your recording here
Jaber - Listen to your recording here
Hamdan - Listen to your recording here
Saeed Jamal - Listen to the recording here
Abdul Rahman - Listen to your recording here
- Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted it to a Word doc <=== here
- Now please correct or improve what is here
Marwan - Listen to your recording here
- Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted it to a Word doc <=== here
- Now please correct or improve what is here
Humaid - Listen to your recording here
- Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted it to a Word doc <=== here
- Now please correct or improve what is here
Section 2
Mousa - Listen to your recording here
- Vance has transcribed your recording for you
- Now see if you can make any corrections or improvements
Ammar Saeed - Listen to your recording here
- Vance has transcribed your recording for you
- Now work on the PiratePad and see if you can make any corrections or improvements
Khalifa Juma Al Nuaimi - Listen to your recording here
- Vance has transcribed your recording for you
- Now see if you can make any corrections or improvements
Rashed - Listen to your recording here
- Vance has transcribed your recording for you
- Now see if you can make any corrections or improvements
Ahmed Rashed - Listen to your recording here
- Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted it to a Word doc <=== here
- Now please correct or improve what is here
Ahmed Ali Al Yammahi - Listen to your recording here
- Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted it to a Word doc <=== here
- Now please correct or improve what is here
Theyab - Listen to your recording here
Mohammed Abdulla - Listen to your recording here
Ahmed Al Naqbi - listen to your recording here
Mana - Listen to your recording here
- Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted it to a Word doc <=== here
- I've even made corrections for you so please study my feedback to help you with the test
Week 25 Final exam Wed June 26 or Thu June 27
What's on the test
Vocabulary Review of Oxford Aviation English Units 1 and 2
Listening Review of Oxford Aviation English Unit 2
Fluency exercises
- Students see a a trio of pictures and select 4 statements (from a set of 3) which best describe that picture
Interaction exercises
- The most logical response (4 choices) is given to a prompt.
- The correct response could be determined on grammaticality or proposition.
- There are 30 such questions on the test.
Week 24 Vocab and listening Thu June 20
Unit 2 Listening
Unit 2 Vocabulary
Basics of Navigation Final Exam Practice for Students
- Hazza's suggestions from class
- Suggestions from Pilot Imtiaz: A few topics that would help section 1:
June 3-5, 2013 Bermuda Triangle Secrets Revealed
Read about it: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq15-2.htm
BBC Documentary, 45 minutes, on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GICglVEAIlI
Preparation for vocabulary test June 5
Vocab test online lessons
Handouts for classroom activities (These handouts were prepared by running OCR scans on PDF version of book, concatenating the files, converting them to text, and then searching them for the two dozen words in the vocabulary list, and adapting what was found to the exercises here, where vocab target words are blanked from the texts):
- p.7 and 8 - Safety Sense: Download here ===> Word and PDF files
- p. 10 Exchanges: Download here ===> Word and PDF files
- p.14 Situations: Download here ===> Word and PDF files
- p.15 Descent Confusion: Download here ===> Word and PDF files
- p.84 Transcripts for Unit 1: Download here ===> Word and PDF files
May 29, 2013 Runway Incursion at Chicago O'Hare (FAA Safety Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zBdtNVa8N0
mp3 of tower and two pilots
Transcript
Instreamia
Enroll here: http://www.instreamia.com/class/367646/enroll
May 27, 2013 Tenerife Runway Disaster
More exercises at Awsome stories: http://www.awesomestories.com/disasters/tenerife
Instreamia
Enroll here: http://www.instreamia.com/class/367646/enroll
Handout for May 28 ILC class <== Here
Tenerife exercises
Reading
YouTube
Communications Transcripts
Instreamia video English
There are some interesting video worksheet materials set up for you here:
Enroll at: http://www.instreamia.com/class/367646/enroll
What to do:
- Gladiator
- Aerodynamics
- EXPLORE and try other interesting materials you find here
Sections 8 and 9 ILC - Trace Effects
See the Handout from Sunday April 28: Achieve Chapter 1 milestones <=== HERE
Method 1 - Play online and return to your benchmark next time
You can Google Trace Effects to land at the home page: http://americanenglish.state.gov/trace-effects
And play the game here: http://traceeffects.state.gov/
To create an account, all you need is an email address
Create your account here: http://traceeffects.state.gov/create-account/
Download the UNITY browser
RUN the installation – DO NOT CANCEL IT
If any questions, ask your teacher
Method 2 - Play locally (does not track your progress)
If the UNITY BROWSER takes a LONG TIME to load, you can PRACTICE the game on your local computer
To have the game record the milestones YOU achieve, YOU MUST PLAY ONLINE!
LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN!!!
Trace Effects Handouts
Section 8 ILC Apr 22 Amelia Earhart
Click here to see your assignment
http://kbzac.pbworks.com/w/page/59655400/IELTS
Handout in Word <-- Download it here
IELTS Formal letter writing sample and choice of tasks (complaint and application) <== Download it here
Section 1 ILC Apr 18, 2013 Earth Day
To join the April 18 Elluminate chat space, click here http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/
Recording of the event:
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-04-17.2114.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
More information:
Earth Day at Naval College, 2012
http://acommunication.pbworks.com/
http://acommunication.pbworks.com/w/page/52696874/earthday22april
http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume16/ej61/ej61in/
International collaboration with students worldwide, 2013
http://earthbridges.net/
http://earthbridges.wikispaces.com/Earthcast13+Schedule
http://curiousvance.wordpress.com/
Section 8 ILC Apr 17-18, 2013
You can practice the grammar from Headway here:
http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/a_grammar/unit01/?cc=global&selLanguage=en
Or try one of the earlier units to bring yourself up to speed
Check your grammer; try this diagnostic
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072283289/student_view0/diagnostic_a.html
Use the cd-rom from the back of your HEADWAY book and do some of the Unit 1 exercises
Fill out this form: Explore what's in the ILC and return it to your teacher
IELTS Letter Writing
These Wordles come from this website
http://www.dcielts.com/ielts-letters/ten-top-tips/
IELTS Writing tip 1 - http://screencast.com/t/g0WVNkHP8lE
IELTS Writing tip 2 - http://screencast.com/t/k3OX1Ajw
IELTS Writing tip 3 - http://screencast.com/t/mbIGv4KX
IELTS Writing tip 4 - http://screencast.com/t/rmb73ftP1
IELTS Writing tip 5 - http://screencast.com/t/IscpkgyQ5
IELTS Writing tip 6 - http://screencast.com/t/oQvQnqlJX
IELTS Writing tip 7 - http://screencast.com/t/bIy7K9SKdx
IELTS Writing tip 8 - http://screencast.com/t/HFSbDNkal
IELTS Writing tip 9 - http://screencast.com/t/nNRYKtSI8
IELTS Writing tip 10 - http://screencast.com/t/9CfQfd6PFSRR
Section 9
Section 9 ILC
Writing
Jaber Mohammad Al Mansoori - did first draft in class - http://sync.in/Ah5M4NMqso
Ahmed Hamad Al Karrani - did first draft in class - http://sync.in/hTymFXXW3T
AH http://sync.in/zBhFryhg5J
Hamad Al Dehba Al Ameri - did first draft in class - http://sync.in/6qj9kkeFfa YouTube Mar 6 no work
Hamad Ali Yammahi - did first draft in class - http://sync.in/fehJomBTgy YouTube Mar 5
Hamad Sorour Al Sharqi - DID NOT do classwork - http://sync.in/HGszNDtEuY
Isa Mohamed Al Shaikh - DID NOT do classwork - http://sync.in/uCoRPtSFC2
Khaled Khalfan Al Qaydi - did first draft in class - http://sync.in/bDnhuOUFLN
Khaled Saeed Obaid - did do classwork - http://sync.in/uid6hUgaG1 YouTube March 6
Khalid Mohammad Al Badwawi - DID NOT write first draft in class? Nothing from ILC Mar 5 or 6 http://sync.in/oC1PKzhoNT
Majid Rashid Binghurair - did first draft in class - http://sync.in/1NGGSgRnvM YouTube Mar 5
http://sync.in/TxqZPPFed7
Masood Hamdan Al Ahbabi - did first draft in class - http://sync.in/jNoPHcVyTk
Mohamed Abdulla Hefaity - did first draft in class - http://sync.in/2irkZgSCpP
Musallam Salem Al Ameri - did first draft in class - http://sync.in/mNKKm5hdrB
Rashed Maajab Al Hajeri - excellent work - http://sync.in/j3IY3pwh2v
Saeed Salim Al Shamsi - did first draft in class - http://sync.in/hQJYbDiTwq YouTube on March 6
Sultan Mohammed Al Kaabi - DID NOT do classwork - http://sync.in/eidcwot2E5
Mon March 11 Introductions
View these introductions: http://youtu.be/4oceDC_w6uY
- Talk about the people in them
- Practice the vocabulary
Watch this video: http://youtu.be/92pgzt2dWwg
If you were going to hire one of these people, which would it be?
Role play
The interviewer can draw from these questions (the ones asked in the video)
Can you tell me something about yourself?
Tell me a little bit about yourself
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How would you describe your personality?
How would you describe yourself?
Could you describe yourself briefly?
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Are you originally from the UAE?
May I ask how old you are?
Have you finished your studies?
Do you have any family obligations?
The interviewee answers about him/herself
A black / white example of bad / good answers to this question
http://youtu.be/4OjDRKguXj8
Introduce others in the class based on what they said in their “interviews”
Write an introduction:
Here is a text example: http://youtu.be/CZCfTX-oRzg
Listen to a couple of examples here: http://youtu.be/pIlIi0o53To
Write 2 paragraphs, each with several complete sentences about yourself
- Write a little bit about yourself
- Describe yourself and your personality
- What are you doing now and what do you hope you will do in the future?
Class 45 January-February 2013
Work from previous weeks has been moved <== HERE
How can your teacher help you?
Important: When you EMAIL me at vstevens@hct.ac.ae you MUST put your name and section in the SUBJECT
If you don't I'll write you back and ask who you are
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