Добавил:
Upload Опубликованный материал нарушает ваши авторские права? Сообщите нам.
Вуз: Предмет: Файл:
Let’s Talk and Write English.doc
Скачиваний:
471
Добавлен:
13.04.2015
Размер:
17.86 Mб
Скачать

3.24. A) Match the six announcements made over the public address system of an airport to a type of a message. B) Make up similar announcements of different types.

Types of messages:

- staff announcement - warning

- advertisement - flight cancellation

- delayed flight departure - delayed night arrival

- security announcement - final flight call

Announcement 1

Passengers are reminded that smoking is not permitted in any part of the terminal building.

Announcement 2

Will passenger Eckber from Miami please go to Airport Information where your tour leader is waiting. Passenger Eckber to Airport Information.

Announcement 3

This is a staff call. Will Roger Broom, please, go to the Baggage Hall immediately. Roger Broom to the Baggage Hall.

Announcement 4

This is the final call flight IB763 to Madrid. Will any remaining passengers, please, proceed immediately to Gate number 14 where the aircraft is about to depart.

Announcement 5

British Airways regret to announce the delay of flight BA008 to New York. Passengers should report with their boarding cards to the BA desk where vouchers for refreshments will be given. We would like to apologize for any inconvenience.

Announcement 6

This is a security announcement. Passengers are reminded not to leave baggage unattended at any time. Any unattended baggage will be removed and may be destroyed.

3.25. A) Read the text and explain how the system of domestic and International flights is organized in the us? What makes it effective?

Domestic flights in the USA are organized

on the principle of hubs and spokes, like a bicycle

wheel which has a hub at the centre and lots of

spokes radiating out from it in all directions. One

such a hub is Houston in Texas: flights to over 100

other airports radiate out in different directions from

there and half of these are non-stop flights.

For example, if you want to get from

Miami to Los Angeles, you can catch a

Continental Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale,

change planes at Houston and fly on to Orange

County.

The hub and spokes network has made flights cheaper and means that even quite small places are connected to each other by a major airline or feeder service. Another advantage of the system is that connecting flights are to some extent guaranteed. If one incoming flight is up to one hour late, all the connecting flights (up to 30 or 40) will be held until it arrives so if you are on a delayed flight, that’s good news - but it’s bad news for everyone else because they all have to wait for your plane to land. From the point of view of overseas connections, many hubs also operate as entry points or “gateways”, where passengers flying in from another country can join the hub and spoke system. The same type of system does operate in other parts of the world: for example, you can fly from one part of Europe to another via Frankfurt or Paris, or Amsterdam, or London, but the difference in other parts of the world is that the fares are not any cheaper so there’s no special advantage.

Соседние файлы в предмете [НЕСОРТИРОВАННОЕ]