Structure
Structure: ‘Mixed conditionals’
Combine an unreal past condition with a present result (or the reverse) using mixed conditionals, grounded in this summer's transatlantic route cuts.
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Throughout the summer of 2025, a succession of European carriers began withdrawing capacity from transatlantic routes to the United States, citing a sustained collapse in bookings…
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Structure: ‘Gerunds and infinitives’
Verb + to-infinitive or verb/preposition + -ing? Practise the pattern with examples from American Airlines' new A321XLR.
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American Airlines Receives First Long-Range A321XLR
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Structure: ‘Must have, might have, can’t have’
Modals of deduction about the past — must have, might have, can't have — practised through a real, still-contested aviation investigation.
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Air India 787 Crashes on Takeoff, Killing 260
The crash of Air India Flight 171 on 12 June 2025, 32 seconds after departing Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport bound for London Gatwick, claimed…
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