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Week starting: 22nd March 2004

1. Air Travel Trivia Heathrow Airport opened on March 25th 1948 in a muddy field on the outskirts of London. It has come a long way in the 56 years since it had just a tent for Customs. It now has four terminals (with the fifth on its way), more than 50,000 employees and is the busiest international airport in the world. This week we take a look at air travel in a quiz worth a maximum of 100 points for 40 correct answers. Level Intermediate and upwards How to use the lesson 1. Divide the class into pairs or small teams. 2. Tell your students they are going to complete a quiz which contains a total of 40 questions (or fewer if you only want to use one of the two worksheets) about air travel. Tell them that each correct answer scores them two points. They will need to work together to get as many answers right as they can. All students will have the same quiz. It is not necessary to be a world traveller to be able to answer many of the questions but a decent general knowledge will help a lot. 3. Give each student in the class Part 1 (42 points) and Part 2 (58 points) of the Worksheet. (If time is short, drop either worksheet and just give students one). 4. After they have finished, check answers in open class. The pair/team with the most correct answers is the winner. Alternative If your students have access to the internet, and you have more time, you could develop this activity by getting your students to find as many answers as they can. Answers (2 points for each correct answer) 1a4 b1 c7 d2 e3 f5 g6 2a4 b5 c1 d6 e2 f7 g3 3 a John Lennon; b Charles de Gaulle; c Cristoforo Colombo (Christopher Columbus); d Simon Bolivar; e Leonardo da Vinci; f Indira Gandhi; g J. F. Kennedy 4a5 b3 c1 d2 e7 f4 g6 5 1 a Narita b Haneda; 2 c JFK Airport; 3 d Air France (or British Airways) e British Airways (or Air France); 4 f suitcase g 1994; 5 h Amelia Earhart i 1932 j Londonderry; 6 k Charles Lindbergh l Le Bourget m 1927 n Spirit of St. Louis; 7 o The Wright Brothers p 1903 q Kitty Hawk; 8 r Air Force One; 9 s Franklin D. Roosevelt 10 t Ronald Reagan; 11 u Heathrow Airport; 12 v Cathay Pacific

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2. Related Websites Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. http://www.charleslindbergh.com/ Learn more about Charles Lindbergh http://www.ameliaearhart.com/ Learn more about Amelia Earhart http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/ Learn more about the Wright Brothers http://www.hotelstravel.com/airports.html Airports around the world http://www.avhome.com/airlines.html International airlines http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blluggagecarousel.htm A bit more trivia

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