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Structure: during vs for

Fly High English - Structure

This time in our structure help we talk about the difference between ‘during’ and ‘for’. It’s common for students to confuse the difference and use each incorrectly. Look at the explanation in the diagram below and read the extra examples below the diagram. Create your own sentences to practice.

During vs For

Extra examples
For
I visited New York for a week.
I trained for a year.

During
During the journey I slept.
During the class I took notes.

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Drone search text

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A plane was on short final to the runway when the crew reported that they could see a drone to the right of their position. They continued for a safe landing moments later. Subsequent arrivals were switched to a parallel runway and a police helicopter was sent to search for the drone close to the runway. The helicopter was unable to locate the drone or anything suspicious. A subsequent arrival to the same runway reported seeing an object but they couldn’t confirm that it was a drone. None of the planes had to perform a missed approach and the object disappeared not long after.

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Drone search audio

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: short final, subsequent (adj.) , suspicious (adj.)

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Paris Air Show wrap up video answers

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

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. Via a quadcopter and Googlebox 360.
  2. You download an app for your smartphone, then insert your phone into the viewfinder, then put the viewfinder up to your eyes.
  3. In total, they had orders and commitments for 331 planes.
  4. The most visually stunning moment was the takeoff of the 787-9 Dreamliner.

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Paris Air Show wrap up video

Fly High English - Video

This week our video reports on Boeing’s week at the Paris Air Show.

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 new ways were available to view the planes this year?
  2. How does the 2nd new way work?
  3. How were Boeing’s sales for the week?
  4. What was the highlight of the week according to the video?

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Paris Air Show Wrap: Wow! Boeing Innovation Leads the Way at Le Bourget

Wow! Boeing innovation and technology helped make the 2015 Paris Air Show a week to remember.

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Structure: Verbs + prepositions 2

Fly High English - Structure

This week we are continuing with verbs and prepositions. Which verbs can use ‘at’ after them? Take a look at the diagram below to see some of the most common verbs that can use ‘at’ after them. ‘At’ is 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.

Prepositions - AT

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