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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 

  1. Use the opportunity your teacher has given each of you to make a recording (30 points)
  2. Listen to your recording and transcribe it (35 points)
    1. Use WORD to write down what you said
    2. Make as many corrections and improvements to your English (grammar and vocabulary) as you can
  3. Submit your transcription to your teacher using one of these means (35 points) 
    1. Work from the printout your teacher has given you OR
    2. 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)

  1. Read your transcript and make any corrections or improvements you can.
  2. Show your work to another students for more help.
  3. 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 landingI 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?

  1. Practice! Record yourself describing a picture
  2. If you have made a recording your teacher will transcribe it for you and give you a printout
  3. Make corrections on the printout and bring them to your teacher
  4. Your teacher will go over this with you and help you produce an improved version 

 

Muntaser Listen to your recording here

  • Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted your transcript here: http://piratepad.net/IVnc3Y0suS
  • Now please correct or improve what is here

  

Mohamed Ahmed Al Sereidi - Listen to your recording here

  • Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted your transcript here: http://piratepad.net/U9iGPlByKE
  • Now please correct or improve what is here 

 

Saeed Sulaiman - Listen to your recording here

  • Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted your transcript here: http://piratepad.net/XRuVYSWUiV
  • Now please correct or improve what is here 

 

Jaber Listen to your recording here

  • Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted your transcript here: http://piratepad.net/9eeGL4Ymmv 
  • Now please correct or improve what is here 

 

Hamdan - Listen to your recording here

  • Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted your transcript here: http://piratepad.net/WwXfqrqL3X
  • Now please correct or improve what is here 

  

Saeed Jamal Listen to the recording here

  • Your teacher has transcribed the audio for you and pasted your transcript here: http://piratepad.net/ymP5nSq1a8
  • Now please correct or improve what is 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

 

Ammar Saeed  - Listen to your recording here

 

Khalifa Juma Al Nuaimi - Listen to your recording here

 

Rashed - Listen to your recording here

 

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

 

 

 

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: 

  1. Gladiator
  2. Aerodynamics
  3. 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

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

How would you describe your personality?

How would you describe yourself?

Could you describe yourself briefly?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

  1. Write a little bit about yourself
  2. Describe yourself and your personality
  3. 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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