Week 11a: Monday, 17 November 2014

Posted by Zakumi on November 14, 2014

On a Plane: Discussing aviation vocab and dialogues. You have to look at the worksheet to comment. Students, please stop looking at the previous comments from your classmates and give an original comment (your own thoughts). Thank you. Cai Huibin will forward you the attachment if you can't see it here.

M - W11a - Discussion - On a Plane.pdf

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  • Caroline November 17, 2014 4:01
    From the aviation vocab and pienty of short dialogues.I think different people in different jobs have diffreent skills,But what is the most important is that you should try your best in the job,just like the people in the dialogues.we should be patient.
    • Zakumi > Caroline November 17, 2014 4:06

      Caroline, you were so lucky ...! I was wondering why your comment hasn't come in yet ... And now, looking at this late comment (a rushed one), I can see clearly that it doesn't help to make such a late comment as you could not have gone through the lesson material in detail. I hope you would do your comment earlier next time and convince me that you really know what the lesson content is about.

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    • Zakumi November 17, 2014 3:39

      I am glad to read you sound so positive about what you may learn in this lesson, Men Yaqiong. It is exactly meant to be that way! Many students haven't seen the inside of a plane yet, and as you rightly mentioned, this will give them a little more common sense about flying one day. Yes, domestic flights would be no problem as they speak Chinese on those flights, but some of you may take international flights one day and hopefully this would then be of assistance to you.

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    • Zakumi November 17, 2014 3:35

      I hope you use your dictionary to explain the vocabulary to you, Li Xinlan! Only in that way would this lesson mean something to a student. I was already 26 before I flew in an aeroplane for the first time; so, be patient, your opportunity will come sooner or later.

  • fengdongli November 17, 2014 1:08
    After reading this dialogue .I was moved by the steward . Thought there are some words i need to lookup in the dictionary.Airline stewardess praised by people all the time .Because of there bovine serve manner.And i hoop every one can do that when other people ask us questions .
    • Zakumi > fengdongli November 17, 2014 3:32

      Lily, I was impressed with some of your comments in the past, but it appears to me that you don't take much care any longer when doing your comments; am I right? You don't have to reply; just think about why I would say that. Oh, and btw, "bovine" is not a good word to use in the context you used it here. A word like 'professional', 'calm', or 'patient' would have been correct.

  • jiang dan November 17, 2014 0:54
    After reading the short dialogues ,i konw some knowledge of taking a plane,and how patient and polite the flight attendant is.Although there are many crashes at present,i still believe our workers have try there best to serve us,like assuring our safety mostly,help us as more as possible,and so on,which we should be greateful for what they do for us.
    • Zakumi > jiang dan November 17, 2014 3:25

      Jiang Dan, why do you think there are many plane crashes lately? How many do you know about that happened this year? I will not be surprised that you only know about two ...! If I am right, it means the two Malaysian Airline planes that went down, right? But those were not ordinary accidents. One was illegally shot down in a war in one country (and it is a war crime to shoot at a civilian plane) and it should have never happened. And the other one should, according to overwhelming evidence, also never have happened was it not for interference by someone in the cockpit (presumably the pilot or co-pilot) who turned off the radar to track the plane. Nowadays flying by plane is more safer than ever before in the history of world aviation! Did you know that? ;-)

  • Gina November 16, 2014 23:32
    From this passage,i learn that evryone has his advantages,and the same to the job.Every job should be respected,for we can't be professor in every aspect.Such as boarding.When we take planes,we should listen carefully to what the workers say.they have many knowledge that we don't have.By communicating with them,we can get what we need and make all of us convinience.
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    • Zakumi > Gina November 17, 2014 3:18

      Gina, the people working in the airplanes would be offended if they know that you call them 'workers'! Why did you not use some of the vocabulary of the lesson when describing them? We refer to them as the cabin crew (the captain, who is also the pilot, his co-pilot, and the stewardesses, or flight attendants).

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