This course is intended for people with limited knowledge of aviation, who are aiming to start their training for a career as a pilot or air traffic controller.
This special programme gives them an insight into the world of aviation and an understanding of some of its terminology, whilst improving their general English language at the same time.
The course provides a useful combination of intensive general English and aviation English tuition:
The intensive programme, adopting an integrated skills approach, focuses on general English language development. The specialised component of the course concentrates on extending the trainee’s aviation English vocabulary, whilst also improving the receptive and productive language skills, using a range of topic areas within the context of aviation.
GENERAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TUITION
The general English component concentrates on structure and usage, oral communication, vocabulary development and listening and reading comprehension.
AVIATION ENGLISH LANGUAGE TUITION
The specialised component of the course concentrates on extending the trainee’s aviation English vocabulary, whilst also improving the receptive and productive language skills, using a range of topic areas within the context of Aviation.
- Aircraft – types, structure and maintenance
- Airport – areas, layouts, equipment and planning
- Phases of flight – pushback, take-off en route and landing
- Language of flying – communication in the air and on the ground
- Theory of flight
- Meteorology
- Navigation
- Emergency situations
CERTIFICATE OF TRAINING
Trainees will receive an Anglo-Continental Certificate of Studies at the end of their course (subject to satisfactory course completion)
