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Listening: Rejected Takeoff at Paris

An error-correction dictation: an old cargo aircraft rejects its takeoff at Paris after a nose landing gear warning. Listen and correct the seven mistakes in the…

Structure

Structure: ‘Modals of possibility 2’

Practise may, might and could — three modal verbs that express possibility — through an error-correction exercise drawing on the story of Joby Aviation's first piloted…

Structure

Structure: ‘Modals of possibility’

Learn how to use could, might and may to talk about possibilities in aviation — then test yourself with a context-driven gap-fill using vocabulary from the…

Structure

Structure: ‘Indirect questions’

Indirect questions embed a direct question inside a polite opening phrase, changing the word order and softening the register. Practise forming them with aviation examples from…