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Structure: ‘Passive voice’
Why does an accident report say "the passengers were rescued" instead of naming who rescued them? Practise the passive voice with a real aviation story.
CEFR B1
CEFR B1 (intermediate) aviation English — paired with ICAO Level 4, the operational level that is the ICAO minimum for international flying. Everything here works the core radiotelephony and plain-language skills you need to reach and hold Level 4.
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Structure
Structure: ‘Modals of obligation’
Must, have to, mustn't, don't have to — a quick guide to the modals of obligation, built around a real story of airline safety rules.
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Structure: ‘Reporting verbs’
Reporting verbs like estimated, felt, and told carry different shades of meaning — practise them with the story of Boeing's 2024 machinists' strike.
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Structure: ‘Due to’ vs ‘because’
"Due to" and "because" both explain a cause — but different grammar follows each one. Practise the contrast using the 2024 CrowdStrike IT outage that grounded…
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29 Aug 2023
UK Air Traffic Failure Strands 700,000 Passengers
A single faulty flight plan shut down UK air traffic control on a bank holiday, cancelling more than 1,500 flights and disrupting over 700,000 passengers.
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13 Apr 2023
Boeing 737 MAX Deliveries Halted by Supplier Fitting Defect
A manufacturing error in the fuselage fittings of the Boeing 737 MAX, dating back to 2019, forced the repair of over 170 undelivered aircraft and delayed…
