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I will soon begin teaching short-term classes to air traffic controllers; specific focus is on radio telephony, identifying airport ground equipment, runway information, atmospheric phenomena, etc. If you could direct me to any of these or similar materials, I'd be very grateful.

Dean

I read on the Dogme discussion list about an activity for air traffic controllers that involved designing an airport. Apparently the activity was a big success. I'm not going to find the post for you but the archives are here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dogme/

Try a search for air traffic controllers. let us know how the class goes; it sounds exciting!

deanbush, coincidentally I saw a set of either CD-ROMS or videos on e-bay for teaching aviation English (I think it was actually for air traffic controllers!). Search on e-bay under 'EFL'.

A link:

http://www.aznet.net/~cnoble/cnoble.html

This is also a useful tool for work on authentic text:

http://132.208.224.131/

The Compleat Lexical Tutor

Below is on a small example of what one can do with the various tools.

228 96 a340 accessair air-driven aircraft airport airstair aps diesel ford pick-up self-propelled trucks

[1] _______ System ' s Model [2] _______ [3] _______ passenger airstairs accommodate both narrow and widebody [4] _______ with door sills between [5] _______ and [6] _______ , including the [7] _______ . [8] _______ units can be mounted on gas or [9] _______ [10] _______ F series [11] _______ [12] _______ or equivalents , and can be purchased with or without a series of options , including a full clearview passenger cover and , top or bottom mounted , [13] _______ canopies to fully cover the door or either the [14] _______ or an [15] _______ bus.

Good luck

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