Structure: ‘Present perfect vs past simple’
Present perfect or past simple? Sort out the two tenses using the easyJet and Rolls-Royce hydrogen engine test, then try a gap-fill.
Aviation English at ICAO Level 4 (operational) — the ICAO minimum for international flying, roughly CEFR B1. The essential news, grammar and listening practice for reaching, demonstrating and keeping the level your licence depends on.
Present perfect or past simple? Sort out the two tenses using the easyJet and Rolls-Royce hydrogen engine test, then try a gap-fill.
Use the past perfect to step back in a past-tense story. Practise with error-correction items drawn from the collapse of Spirit Airlines.
A Lufthansa Airbus A319 on approach to Frankfurt is struck by lightning, losing weather radar. A sentence-reorder dictation set during a stormy approach.
An A340 crew on a long-haul flight to Singapore dealt with bleed air fumes after one engine showed unusually high oil consumption — an error-correction dictation…
A regional jet crew declares PAN PAN and turns back to Toronto after a fuel imbalance warning — reorder the six events of this dictation exercise.
An error-correction dictation: an old cargo aircraft rejects its takeoff at Paris after a nose landing gear warning. Listen and correct the seven mistakes in the…