Can & could for probability
In this post, we talk about how can and could are used in the context of likelihood and probability. Have a look at the digram for more information.
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Audio answer: ‘Lightning’
Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.
Enjoy!!
A Boeing 767 with 284 people on board, was on approach to its destination in bad weather when it was hit by lightning. The crew decided to abort the approach at about 2000 feet and divert to an alternative with better weather. The aircraft climbed to FL280 enroute to its alternative and landed safely 35 minutes after aborting the approach to its original destination.
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Audio: ‘Lightning’
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: abort (v.), enroute
Video answers: ‘How do plane toilets work?’
Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!
Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+
- They were directly connected to the ‘outside’ world. You cold lift the lid and be looking down at the ground below.
- Boeing introduced a flush toilet.
- As late as 1982.
- They use a pressure differential to push your waste down the toilet.
- They like them because they requires very little water, which saves the airline money. They’re also less smelly.
- There haven’t been any reports of people being hurt because by plane toilets.
- The tap water, which is frequently above acceptable contamination levels.
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Video: ‘How do plane toilets work?’
Here’s an interesting video that describes a little about the history of toilets on planes and how they work.
Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.
Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+
- How did plane toilets in the 1920s and 30s work?
- What changed by the late 1930s?
- When were the modern, vacuum toilets introduced to planes?
- How do they work differently?
- Why do airlines like vacuum toilets?
- Can modern vacuum toilets, if used incorrectly, cause serious injury to a person?
- What is a more serious risk for passengers in plane toilets?
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How Do Plane Toilets Work? | Brit Lab
Greg Foot explains how plane toilets actually work and whether the urban myth of toilets being able to suck your insides out is true!
Structure: ‘can & could 1’
Using ‘can & could’
These two verbs can be used in many different ways and in the next few posts we’ll talk about the different ways they can be used. Today we’ll talk about using ‘can’ and ‘could’ when talking about ability, this is normally the first context that people see ‘can’ and ‘could’. Check out the diagram below and don’t forget to come back next week to see another way to use ‘can’ and ‘could’.
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