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, 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.
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.
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.
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, 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, 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).
Ying Haiyang, there is much more to this lesson than the dialogue on page two and three! I hope you took note of the many new words and that you also used your dictionary to learn something!
I'm glad if you think this exercise would help you one day, Liu Weifang! That is exactly the purpose of the lessons; to help students when they would need some vocabulary in different situations (and in this case, when they board international flights to travel abroad one day). You can rest assure, one day you would get the opportunity to use it; it may just take a little while, but the opportunity would come your way! :)
Okay, so you and Xu Yang are used to flying, Long Yuan?! You are very fortunate as many students live further away than Chongqing (like in Fujian), but they can't fly and have to travel by train. So, your plane experienced such violent turbulence that it had to land at Jinan airport? Wow, that must have been serious. I have experienced turbulence many times flying to or from South Africa, but never it was that violent. They say it is not dangerous for planes, but just very inconvenient and frightening for the passengers. Maybe your captain of that flight just took some precautions, or maybe he was very worried and decided to take the safest option. I guess he was right, as it is better to be cautious than sorry afterwards! Btw, that is good advice you are giving here!
Haha, Guo Hongtai, the safety belts in cars are much more important than those in the planes as in the planes you only have to use them when the plane takes off or lands, but in a car one has to keep it on during the whole duration of a journey! Of course not all people put those belts on in their cars, but on a plane they are forced to do it (and if they refuse, the aviation authorities would take stern action against them). I can see you would be a good passenger one day as you already know what you should do!
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