Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!
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It gives the customers something they need; connection to the sky as it makes them feel more comfortable.
They place the seats at such a height, that when passengers are sitting, their heads are at the widest part of the cabin.
Lighting is used to draw attention to specific parts of the cabin, and coloured lighting is used to indicate different phases of the flight for passengers.
They want to draw you eye upward, where there’s more space.
They can create rainbows, crazy light shows or even an aurora borealis.
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In grammar terms, articles are ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’. These are some of the most common words in English and in many Western European languages there are article systems that are similar to articles in English, but with some differences.
Use: We use articles to indicate if something we are talking about is known to the speaker and the listener (it’s definite) or if it’s something which is not known to both the speaker and listener (it’s indefinite). Let’s look at an example.
eg Before my flight I was in the lounge.
In this sentence the speaker is indicating to the listener (by saying ‘the lounge’) that he/she knows the lounge (perhaps it’s the lounge that the speaker usually goes to, or it’s the only lounge in the airport). Whatever the reason, the speaker is indicating that the listener already knows about the lounge (it’s definite).
Let’s look at a second example.
We punctured a tyre after landing.
In this sentence the speaker is indicating to the listener (by saying ‘a tyre’) that he/she doesn’t know about the burst tyre. A plane has many tyres so it’s impossible to know which one was punctured. Later in the conversation however, the speaker my say;
…we’ll have to replace the punctured tyre.
In this sentence, ‘punctured tyre’ has become definite (‘the punctured tyre’) because it was mentioned previously, even though you don’t know which specific tyre was punctured, you know that the punctured tyre exists, and that’s why it has become definite.
Tip: Information that begins as indefinite becomes definite. ie Something which you first describe as ‘a plane’ then becomes ‘the plane’ when you mention it again.
Check out the diagram below and our other posts on articles to find out more about definite and indefinite articles.
How to use a, an & the.
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This week’s video reports on an idea for modular cabin designs that would allow airlines to add variety to their cabins with a minimum delay in altering the layout as needed. Watch the video to find out more.
Instead of the usual questions, this time watch the video a couple of times, take some notes and record yourself explaining the idea, how it works, the benefits and add some of your own personal comments on the idea. Try to make the audio recording around 2 minutes long. Then listen to your recording for any mistakes that you made and try to correct them.
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Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost A3 is developing a modular cabin architecture that enables widebody freighters to be quickly and flexibility configured to provide new revenue-generating passenger experiences such as brand-name restaurants, coffee shops, gyms or spas.
This time in our structure help we talk about the difference between ‘all’ and ‘every’. These two words have similar meanings but are used in different ways. Check out the diagram below for more information and don’t forget to be careful with the difference between ‘all day’ and ‘every day’.
All vs every.
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