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ICAO Level 6

Aviation English at ICAO Level 6 (expert) — the top of the ICAO rating scale, roughly CEFR C1, where language stops being a limitation. Advanced practice for aviators pursuing full, effortless fluency in operational and everyday contexts.

24 briefings
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Structure: ‘Participle clauses’

Advanced-level grammar activity on participle clauses, recycling vocabulary from the NTSB report on drug findings in fatally injured pilots.

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Structure: ‘Relative clauses’

Join two ideas into one precise sentence: practise defining, non-defining, prepositional and reduced relative clauses with examples from the FAA's electric air-taxi programme.

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Structure: ‘Inversion’

Inversion places the auxiliary verb before the subject to create emphasis and a formal register — a feature of aviation directives, ICAO documents, and safety bulletins.…

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Structure: ‘Although vs despite’

Explore the contrast between 'although' and 'despite' in advanced aviation writing — then test your understanding with an eight-item practice exercise drawn from the Boeing 777X…

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Structure: ‘Fronted adverbials’

Explore fronted adverbials — time phrases, participial clauses, concessive clauses and infinitives of purpose placed at the start of a sentence — through a comprehension and…