Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice of aviation phraseology and plain English language in the context of communication between pilot, ATC, cabin crew, and passengers
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of situations in an in-flight situation
Procedure (14-19 minutes)
Show Ss the images in the presentation without the lead.in question. Ask Ss the following questions: Who are those people? Who usually talks to who?. Show the lead-in question and ask them why it is important for those people to be able to communicate between each other. Demo: I think the pilot needs to communicate with the air traffic controller or atc to be able to safely navigate the sky or airspace. They will have 2 min to discuss in pairs or threes. Ask 1 S to share their peers' answers at the end.
Gist: Give gist text to Ss. Ask them to read it and answer the two questions at the bottom. They will have 2 min to do this. While they do that, draw two columns on the board with no text. Nominate Ss for answers. Intensive: Ask Ss to look at the red and green phrases. Ask them what they think the difference between them is. Write Aviation phraseology (ATC) in one and Plain English in the other.
Open word doc. Read the first dialogue and ask Ss what they think the meaning of Copy that is (I understand). (If nobody gets it, ask them to look at the dialogue between the crew member and the passenger and if they could substitute I understand for Copy that.) Go to the passenger and crew member exchange and ask them if you can replace I understand with copy that (yes, but...) Where would you commonly use this phrase, point to columns. Write copy that and I understand in their respective columns. Read the dialogue and ask them what Mayday means (distress signal, a very dangerous situation). CCQ: What is happening? (an emergency) Read the dialogue and ask them what roger means. (Same as copy that) ATC standard, write on board. what is the purpose of ATC phraseology? provides clear language to communicate a routine message, it's effective, less time consuming Go to third slide in the PPT. Ask Ss to tell you the meaning of stand by. Ask them if stand by and I'll get back to you have a similar meaning (yes), what is the difference? (function) write on board, what do they mean? (wait) back to slide. CCQ: Can I say, I'll get back? (no, it needs a complement, ex. I'll get back where? to who? to them this is the correct preposition). Pronunciation. to you, what happens to to? schwa. Repeat after me.
Give controlled practice handout and 1 min to answer the questions. Ask them to flip over for answers, if they got them correct and if they have any questions.
Give Ss the freer practice situations. Ask them to reply to the situation with their own ideas. Demo: read passenger situation and ask for water for medication.They will have 2 min to role play the situation. Ask them to use the expressions they learned whenever possible. Listen for DEC
