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Date: Mar 28, 2008
THE ARTICLEFifth terminal opens at London HeathrowLondon Heathrow's new Terminal 5 officially opened on Thursday and immediately created chaos for passengers. Unfortunately for the airport authorities, there were more than a few teething problems. Passengers arriving on morning flights had to wait several hours for their baggage to arrive. This was embarrassing for airport officials because Terminal 5 was built with the promise of fewer delays and a better service. Things got worse as the day progressed. The high-tech conveyor belt that takes suitcases to planes broke down. Seven flights left without baggage and 34 flights were cancelled. One unlucky passenger said: “This is Heathrow it seems the bad things from the other terminals have also landed in this new one.” The airport had to close all check-in desks by evening. Airport bosses asked people for patience and said it would take time to iron out the problems.
Officials did let out a sigh of relief on the first day because there were no large-scale protests from environmental campaigners. Authorities feared that groups opposed to the airport’s plans for expansion might try to disrupt Terminal 5’s opening. Many people are against plans for a third runway and a sixth terminal at Heathrow. One group even managed recently to climb onto the roof of the British parliament to protest against further airport construction at Heathrow. John Stewart, from the anti-expansion group Clear Skies, said: "The real reason Terminal 5 was built was to…allow more flights on the existing runways, which will mean more noise, more pollution and more stress for those living under the flight paths." This will also make London’s skies more dangerous. Over 40,000 passengers and 380 flights were scheduled to pass through the new terminal on its first day. WARM-UPS1. AIRPORTS: Walk around the class and talk to other students about airports. Change partners often. After you finish, sit with your original partner(s) and share what you found out. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. 3. BETTER SERVICE: How can airports improve? Talk about this with your partner(s). Give a score from 10 (massive improvement needed) to 1 (a few changes here and there would be nice). Change partners and share your ideas.
4. AIRPORT PROBLEMS: Which of these would be a huge problem at an airport? Have you experienced any? Talk about them with your partner(s). Change partners and share your ideas.
5. CHAOS: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word ‘chaos’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. 6. QUICK ROLE PLAY: Students A strongly believe that traveling by air is the best way to travel; Students B strongly disagree. Change partners again and talk about your roles and conversations. BEFORE READING / LISTENING1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
3. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):
WHILE READING / LISTENINGGAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.
LISTENING: Listen and fill in the spaces.London Heathrow's new Terminal 5 ______________________ Thursday and immediately created chaos for passengers. Unfortunately for the airport authorities, there ______________________ teething problems. Passengers arriving on morning flights had to wait several hours for their baggage to arrive. ______________________ airport officials because Terminal 5 was built with the promise of fewer delays and a better service. Things got worse ______________________. The high-tech conveyor belt that takes suitcases to planes broke down. Seven flights left without baggage and 34 flights were cancelled. One unlucky passenger said: “This is Heathrow it seems the bad things from the other terminals ______________________ this new one.” The airport had to close all check-in desks by evening. Airport bosses asked people for patience and said it would ______________________ the problems. Officials did let ______________________ the first day because there were no large-scale protests from environmental campaigners. Authorities feared that groups ______________________ for expansion might try to disrupt Terminal 5’s opening. Many people are against plans for a third runway and a sixth terminal at Heathrow. One group even managed recently to climb ______________________ British parliament to protest against further airport construction at Heathrow. John Stewart, from the anti-expansion group Clear Skies, said: "The real reason Terminal 5 was built was to…allow more ______________________ runways, which will mean more noise, more pollution and more stress for those ______________________." This will also make London’s skies more dangerous. Over 40,000 passengers and 380 flights were scheduled ______________________ terminal on its first day. AFTER READING / LISTENING1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionaries / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘sigh’ and ‘relief’.
2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…? 4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings. 5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall exactly how these were used in the text:
STUDENT AIRPORT SURVEYWrite five GOOD questions about airports in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.
DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
-------------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
LANGUAGECORRECT WORD: Put the correct words from ad below in the article. London Heathrow's new Terminal 5 (1) ____ opened on Thursday and immediately created chaos for passengers. Unfortunately for the airport authorities, there were more than a (2) ____ teething problems. Passengers arriving on morning flights had to wait (3) ____ hours for their baggage to arrive. This was embarrassing for airport officials because Terminal 5 was built with the promise of fewer delays and a better service. Things got worse (4) ____ the day progressed. The high-tech conveyor belt that takes suitcases to planes (5) ____ down. Seven flights left without baggage and 34 flights were cancelled. One unlucky passenger said: “This is Heathrow it seems the bad things from the other terminals have also landed in this new one.” The airport had to close all check-in desks by evening. Airport bosses asked people for patience and said it would take time to iron (6) ____ the problems. Officials did let (7) ____ a sigh of relief on the first day because there were no large-scale protests from environmental campaigners. Authorities (8) ____ that groups opposed to the airport’s plans (9) ____ expansion might try to disrupt Terminal 5’s opening. Many people are against plans for a third runway and a sixth terminal at Heathrow. One group even managed recently to climb onto the roof of the British parliament to protest (10) ____ further airport construction at Heathrow. John Stewart, from the anti-expansion group Clear Skies, said: "The real reason Terminal 5 was built was to…allow more flights on the (11) ____ runways, which will mean more noise, more pollution and more stress for those living under the flight paths." This will also make London’s (12) ____ more dangerous. Over 40,000 passengers and 380 flights were scheduled to pass through the new terminal on its first day.
WRITING:Write about airports for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ HOMEWORK1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out about London Heathrow’s new Terminal 5. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson. 3. AIRPORTS: Make a poster about different airports around the world. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things? 4. DELAYED: Write a magazine article about the problems airport delays create in people’s lives. Include imaginary interviews with a passenger delayed at Terminal 5 and the head of the airport. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down new words and expressions. 5. LETTER: Write a letter to the head of London Heathrow’s new Terminal 5. Ask him three questions about the chaos at the airport. Give him three pieces of advice on what he should do for passengers. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions. 6. DIARY / JOURNAL: Imagine you are a check-in clerk at a busy international airport. Write your diary / journal entry for one day in your job. Read your entry to your classmates in the next lesson. ANSWERSTRUE / FALSE:
SYNONYM MATCH:
PHRASE MATCH:
GAP FILL: Fifth terminal opens at London HeathrowLondon Heathrow's new Terminal 5 officially opened on Thursday and immediately created chaos for passengers. Unfortunately for the airport authorities, there were more than a few teething problems. Passengers arriving on morning flights had to wait several hours for their baggage to arrive. This was embarrassing for airport officials because Terminal 5 was built with the promise of fewer delays and a better service. Things got worse as the day progressed. The high-tech conveyor belt that takes suitcases to planes broke down. Seven flights left without baggage and 34 flights were cancelled. One unlucky passenger said: “This is Heathrow it seems the bad things from the other terminals have also landed in this new one.” The airport had to close all check-in desks by evening. Airport bosses asked people for patience and said it would take time to iron out the problems. Officials did let out a sigh of relief on the first day because there were no large-scale protests from environmental campaigners. Authorities feared that groups opposed to the airport’s plans for expansion might try to disrupt Terminal 5’s opening. Many people are against plans for a third runway and a sixth terminal at Heathrow. One group even managed recently to climb onto the roof of the British parliament to protest against further airport construction at Heathrow. John Stewart, from the anti-expansion group Clear Skies, said: "The real reason Terminal 5 was built was to…allow more flights on the existing runways, which will mean more noise, more pollution and more stress for those living under the flight paths." This will also make London’s skies more dangerous. Over 40,000 passengers and 380 flights were scheduled to pass through the new terminal on its first day. LANGUAGE WORK
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