An airport departures board

Read an airport departures board to practise and improve your reading skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and do the exercises.

Preparation

Reading text

DEPARTURES
Time	Flight	Destination	Gate	Remarks
10:45	XZ 3265	Chennai	17	Departed
10:50	SQ 0972	Amsterdam	23	Departed
11:00	SQ 2509	Mexico City	19	Departed
11:05	RT 9122	Buenos Aires	34	Cancelled
11:10	XZ 6005	Los Angeles	05	Final call
11:20	QE 0078	Beijing	33	Final call
11:25	TY 2053	Christchurch	56	Delayed
11:25	ER 7452	Seoul	25	Boarding
11:30	XZ 0352	Moscow	12	Boarding
11:35	XZ 0569	Kuala Lumpur	27	Gate change

Task 1

Exercise

Task 2

Exercise

Discussion

How often do you travel by plane? Which countries would you like to visit?

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Language level

A1 Elementary

Topics

travel and transport

I don't travel by plane a lot, but if I have enough money I would like to visit Australia, New Zealand, and some countries in Europe.

Around one time per year. I would like to visit India and Mexico.

I sometimes travle by plan generally for mi job I have to visit customers and I have to travel by plan. I would like to visit Germany, Japan and UK, firstly, and other countries like France, Italy, China and Russia.

I didn’t travel by plance,i hope in feature i will travel by plance these countries

I like travel, but i haven’t time and money. I try earl money for do this.

I have never travelled by plane.If I have a chance,I would like to visit Switzerland.

When I worked to Amsterdam city I traveled to this city and where I live. I'd like to travel beautiful country it has value of seen.

Usually I travel by train. I visited Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. I especially liked Poland and Germany. I would like to visit the rest of Europe, where I haven't been yet.

I don't have any experience with flight. I would like to taste the feeling of boarding on plane.But there is lots of possibility to travel with plane in coming very soon year. NewYork is my first destination to flight. after that japan, seoul, etc......

Seldom I've traveled on a plane, however, I would like to visit Scotland, Switzerland, Norway and United Kindom