Английский для бортпроводников. English for flight attendants

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Данное пособие является дополнительным материалом для проведения практических занятий с бортпроводниками и желающими владеть английским языком в данной теме. Содержит аутентичные тексты и упражнения для развития и закрепления навыков по ряду авиационных тем.

Foreword

Flight attendants Flight attendants try to make flights comfortable and enjoyable for passengers. Before the plane takes off, flight attendants instruct all passengers on the use of safety equipment, either by playing a video recording or demonstrating its use in person. They also ensure that seatbelts are fastened, seats are in the upright position, and all carry-on items are properly stowed. A flight attendant's most important responsibility is to help passengers in the event of an emergency. This responsibility ranges from reassuring nervous passengers to performing first aid and evacuating passengers. Flight attendants also answer questions about the flight, attend to passengers with special needs, and help anyone else needing assistance. In this tutorial you will find basic tips on how to become a flight attendant. And also you will learn about the pros and cons of this profession.

Unit 1. The story of a flight attendant

Aim

•      Practice English skills in an aviation context

•      Test your reading skills (level: easy)

•      Have fun!

There’s a certain mystique about flight attendants, isn’t there? Watch heads turn as cabin crew walk by. They’re elegantly uniformed, immaculately turned out, on their way to somewhere far away and seemingly having the time of their lives. You can almost hear everyone wondering, ‘What’s it like for them?’

Flight attendants or cabin crew (also known as stewards/stewardesses, air hosts/hostesses, cabin attendants) are members of an aircrew employed by airlines primarily to ensure the safety and comfort of passengers aboard commercial flights, on select business jet aircraft, and on some military aircraft.

The average person is usually quite curious about what life is really like for flight attendants, what it feels like to wear that uniform, what really goes on among cabin crew, how many languages the flight attendant can converse in and how glamorous the lifestyle really is.

And flight attendant hopefuls are equally interested to glean as much information as they can from working flight attendants, and to receive confirmation or encouragement that the dream is within reach.

“I decided to become a flight attendant after spending 3 years abroad. When I returned home to Canada I knew I wanted a job where I could keep traveling and interacting with people from different cultures. And I love airplanes!” said Emma of Air Canada. It seems like we are right all along that travelling is one of the reasons why flight attendants decided to be on this field. I can’t really disagree with them.

While Kate of Emirates pointed “I loved how glamorous flight attendants look and I was fantasizing being that glamorous while walking the streets of all the beautiful cities in the world. In addition, the idea of being stuck inside an office and on my bum is repulsive to me. I have always wanted to see and take what the world has to offer”.

Personally, I love flying but I hate landing. Being a flight attendant would be the death of me. On the other side, Emma said she’s been working as flight attendant for 5 years now and Kate for 3 years, both has no plans to quit the job in the near future. Despite that Jonas of Etihad only been working for a year now, he enjoyed every moment of it since he left his apartment to work in this field.

Task: why do you want to become a flight attendant?

Vocabulary

flight attendant– стюардесса

cabin crew– экипаж

military aircraft– военный борт

hopefuls– претенденты

landing– посадка

Unit 2. Parts inside the Aircraft

Flying can be an exciting as well as a jumpy and stressful experience for those flying for the first time. While you may be excited about travelling by air, there is also this lurking fear that you may