Listening Library
Listening: Landing on the Taxiway
A sentence-ordering dictation: on a clear morning, an aircraft is cleared to land but touches down on the taxiway beside the runway. Listen and put the…
ICAO Level 4
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.
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Listening Library
Listening: Runway Incursion at Ibiza
An early-morning taxi error at Ibiza puts a small aircraft on the runway just as an A320 begins its takeoff roll. Listen carefully and correct the…
Listening Library
Listening: Cargo Door Warning on Departure from Bergen
A targeted dictation: a captain dismisses a cargo door warning light as a false alarm, only for a ground inspection to confirm the door hadn't been…
Structure
Structure: ‘Zero conditional’
Learn the zero conditional (If + present simple, present simple) through new airline rules for lithium batteries and power banks, with a gap-fill practice and a…
Structure
Structure: ‘Zero conditional’
If a passenger connects, they get online — the zero conditional explains general, always-true rules, contrasted with the first conditional's one-off future guesses.
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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.
