Communication activities.
Task 25. Role-play. The students play the roles of passengers who want to fly to some of the following destinations. Choose your destination and then ask for details of your flight: find out when it departs, when you have to check in, when boarding starts and so on.
Aberdeen
Birmingham
Dublin
Frankfurt
Isle of Man
London Gatwick
New York
Rotterdam
Toronto
Amsterdam
Brussels
Geneva
Jersey
Madrid
Oslo
Singapore
Zurich
Chicago
Dusseldorf
Glasgow
Larnaca
Milan
Paphos
Southampton
Belfast
Copenhagen
Edinburgh
Munich
Paris
Tenerife
One of the students plays the role of a person on duty at the Information desk at Manchester Airport one Friday morning in April. Help the people who enquire about the flights shown on this time-table:
Task 26. Complete the dialogue and reproduce it with your partner.
Agent: - Good morning, sir. Your ticket and your passport, please.
Passenger: -_____________________________
A. - That’s fine. Will you put luggage on the scales, please.
P. -_____________________________________
A. - 20 kilos. It’s OK.
P. -_____________________________________
A. - They are with you ticket, sir. And this is your boarding pass.
P. -_____________________________________
A. - You are welcome and have a good flight.
Task 27. Write down five words that come to your mind when you hear the words “Passenger control”. Compare your list with your partners. Report to the class on the five words you picked and give reasons for your choice.
Task 28. Role play. Group work. One student role plays an airline check-in clerk. The others form a line to check in. The line of people talk among themselves. One is late, another one has six suitcases, another one asks someone to carry a package through for him/her. The teacher assigns countries or cities of destination.
Task 29. Make a list of objects which would not pass a security check. Then role play a security officer and a group of passengers going through a detector. The officer asks questions about the objects, e.g.: “May I see the contents of your pockets?”, “What’s in your bag?” , “ May I see it?”, etc.
Vocabulary
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to arrive (in the USA/at the airport) |
приехать, прибыть |
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to take off |
взлететь, вылететь |
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take off time |
время вылета |
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flight |
рейс |
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to check in |
зарегистрироваться |
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check-in counter |
стойка регистрации |
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ticket |
билет |
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scales (pl) |
весы |
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to exceed; excess |
превышать; излишек |
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Free Baggage Allowance |
норма провоза бесплатного багажа |
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Duty and Tax Free Allowance |
норма провоза беспошлинного багажа |
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the fixed quota |
установленная квота |
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to hand over |
сдавать |
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baggage claim receipts |
багажные квитанции |
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boarding pass |
посадочный талон |
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to load / unload |
(по)грузить / разгрузить |
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the hold of an airplane |
грузовой отсек самолета |
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to go/pass through |
проходить через |
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security check |
проверка на безопасность |
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carry-on/hand luggage |
ручная кладь |
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to screen |
проверять, просвечивать, сканировать |
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to fill in |
заполнять |
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prohibited |
запрещенный |
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restricted |
ограниченный |
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dutiable / liable to duty |
облагаемый пошлиной; подлежащий обложению пошлиной |
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articles / items |
предметы / вещи |
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to present |
предъявлять |
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to contain; contents; container |
содержать; содержимое; контейнер |
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to inspect |
досматривать, проверять |
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to stamp |
ставить штамп |
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arrival lounge / departure lounge |
зал прилета / зал вылета |
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flight call |
объявление о посадке |
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Duty Free Shop |
магазин беспошлинной торговли |
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flight gates |
выход на посадку |
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to board |
подняться на борт |
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belongings |
вещи |