LEARNING OBJECTIVES IN THIS UNIT YOU WILL

watch and understand a video about the air travel

1 Watch and listen
revolution.

I Listening skill listen for rhetorical questions.

1 Critical thinking evaluate problems and propose solutions.

I Grammar use comparative and superlative adjectives.

Speaking skills give recommendations; expand on an idea.

Speaking task give a presentation on a transport problem andsu^^

solutions to solve the problem.

1 UNLOCK YOUR KNOWLEDGE N Work with a

partner. Discuss the questions.
[ 1 What are some problems with modern forms of transport?
N 2 How has transport changed in the last 50 years?
U 3 What do you think is the future of transport? How will it be
different in 50 years?
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TMANSFOUT
 WATCH AND LISTEN

PREPARING TO WATCH
1 Work with a partner. Discuss the questions.
ACTIVATING YOUR.
1 which two places in the world would you like to visit? How long would it take
KNOWLEDGE
to fly to them? How much would it cost?
2 How did people travel between continents before there were aeroplanes?
2 Work with a partner. Look at the photos from the video and discuss the
questions.
I PREDICTING
1 When you think about how far apart two places are, do you think of the
I CONTENT USING
VISUALS distance in kilometres or in minutes or hours?
2 What city do you think the planes are flying over in the first two
photos?
3 How has air travel changed the way that we think about our world?
GLOSSARY

in no time (idm) very quickly

revolutionize (v) to change something completely so that it is much better than before

pnvat^F4anePlane 卩 "' ' 冲旭 which carries passengers or goods; not a military or

airspace (n) the air or sky above a place

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WHILE WATCHING
3 O Complete the paragraph with the words in the box. Then, watch the video ___________
and check your answers. SUMMARIZING

busiest business closer commercial larger smaller

In the past 50 years, we've made the world (1) ____________Cities and
continents are ⑵ ___________than ever before. Many ⑶----------people

。
___________
travel great distances every week. Some(4) ___________planes are bigger
than houses. The airspace above London is one of the ⑶----------in
4 ___________ Watch the video again. Circle the words which you hear.
the world. The number of people travelling by plane grows(6)----------- ___________
1_____________
Today we can travel from continent to continent in time / in no time. UNDERSTANDING
2 South America and Africa / Asia are less than a day away from each other. DETAIL
every year.
3 Military planes travel faster than the speed of sound / light.
4 Every day 350 / 3,500 flights take place overhead.
5 In 2015 / 2016, about 3.7 billion people travelled by plane.
6 Right now, around the world, over / under a million people are travelling in
the air.

DISCUSSION
5 Work in small groups. Take turns discussing the questions. Give reasons and
examples for your answers.
1 Which do you think has changed the world more: the car or the aeroplane?
2 How would you describe the average airline customer in your country?
3 How do you think air travel has changed international business?

WATCH AJND LISTEN 61

 ___________

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LISTENING X
LISTENING!
PRONUNCIATION FOR LISTENING

____ _________
Word stress
Some words have the same form whether they are a noun or a verb.

In recent years, there has & 5 可 decrease in the number of plane

。
crashes, (decrease = noun)
The number of plane- crashes will decrease even more <X5 pUwes become scufer.
1
(decrease = verb)
However,
3.1 Listen to the two sentences and answer the

the pronunciation may not be the same. In many two-syllable words,

questions.
nouns1are stressed
There on the
has been an first syllable
increase and verbs on
in motorcycle the second
accidents oversyllable,
the pastdecrease
five
(= noun)years.
decrease (= verb)
Note 2that
Airlines
not allare always
words looking
follow for new control
this pattern, ways to(=increase the safety
noun) control of their
(= verb)
planes.
a In which sentence is increase a verb? _____
b In which sentence is increase a noun? _____
c Where is the stress in each word? Circle the stressed syllable in each of the
words.

2 0 3.2 Listen and circle the stressed syllable in the words in bold.
1 There's a detailed record of each plane crash.
2 A machine called a 'black box' records everything the pilot and co-pi" say
during a flight.
3 Some cities don't permit cycling on the pavement
4 I'm sorry, but you need an employee parking permit to park in this garage.
5 The company presents an award for road safety to the safest city.
6 He received a new car as a present from his parents.

3 Practise saying the sentences in Exercise 2

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