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Structure: Word order with ‘happen’

Fly High English - Structure

This time in our structure help we talk about the word order of a sentence with the verb ‘happen’. This is a verb which students often put in an incorrect order when making sentences. In reality, it’s very simple. It’s the same basic word order as all our other verbs. Have a look at the diagram below and read the examples. Try writing some examples of your own and reading them out loud to help you remember them.

Explanation of the correct word order when using the verb 'happen'.
Word order with ‘happen’.

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Text: Plane spotters fly

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

A Boeing 777 backtracked along the runway to prepare for takeoff. After turning and without stopping, the plane accelerated down the runway and took off. There were two people watching the Boeing 777 take off from a public road beyond the airport’s perimeter fence. When the plane turned and accelerated they were blown away by the jet blast, fell over and received injuries. An ambulance collected them and took them to the hospital. They left hospital a day later with no major injuries.

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Audio: Plane spotters fly

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You should try to write everything that is said.

You can listen as many times as you want.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 4+

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Difficult words: backtrack (v.), perimetre fence (n.), jet blast (n.)

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Flexjet – The private flight provider answers

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. They’re updating their fleet with new aircraft.
  2. The newest plane is the Gulfstream G450.
  3. When Bombardier owned the company they flew exclusively Bombardier aircraft. Now that they are no longer owned by Bombardier, they are able to fly whatever planes they want to.
  4. There are 50 on order over the next 7-8 years.
  5. Each crew will stay with the same plane and not rotate between several planes of the same type.
  6. He thinks it’ll enhance safety, service and reliability.
  7. Yes, it’s different services have increased between 10% & 20% year-over-year. They have also increased new customer rates by over 50%, year-over-year.

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Flexjet – The private flight provider

Fly High English - Video

Here’s an interesting video about Flexjet, a private flight provider.

Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. What is changing at Flexjet nowadays?
  2. What’s their newest plane in the fleet?
  3. How has the ownership of the company had an effect on the fleet?
  4. How many G450s are on order?
  5. What’s different about the crews in this program?
  6. Why does Mike Silvestro think that this makes things better?
  7. Is the company improving its profitability?

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Structure: Verbs + prepositions 3

Fly High English - Structure

This week we are continuing with verbs and prepositions. Which verbs can use ‘about’ after them? Take a look at the diagram below to see some of the most common verbs that can use ‘about’ after them. ‘About’ is of course, only one possible preposition with these verbs, some of these verbs can use other prepositions too. Read the examples, write some examples yourself and read them out loud to become more familiar with them.

A diagram of verbs used with 'about'.
Verbs with ‘about’

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