Ex. 10.1. Read the questions below and look at the chart to compare air traffic at the world's ten busiest airports:
According to Airport Operators Council International:
1. Which are the world's ten busiest airports?
2. How many passengers does each of them annually carry?
3. How many of the world's ten busiest airports are in Europe?
4. How many of the world's ten busiest airports are located in the United States?
5. How do they compare in air traffic?
Busiest Airports (2000)
Rank Airport Passengers (million)
1. Atlanta 80.2
2. Chicago (O'Hare) 72.1
3. Los Angeles (International) 68.5
4. London-(Heathrow) 64.6
5. Dallas / Fort Worth 60.7
6. Tokyo (Haneda) 56.4
7. Frankfurt 49.3
8. Paris (DeGaulle) 48.2
9. San Francisco (International) 41.2
10. Amsterdam 39.6
(Source: Airport Operators Council International.)
Ex. 10.2. Read these Russian phrases and match them with their English equivalents in Ex.10.3.:
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Ex. 10.3. Translate a scrap of dialogue below about Heathrow into Russian, sentence by sentence:
| 1. What busy airports are located in the London area? | 1. There are four: Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton. The heaviest concentration of air traffic is at Heathrow. |
| 2. What is the airport's capacity? | 2. Its the fourth largest airport internationally, handling 64.6 million passengers in 2000. The annual rate of passenger increase has been about 6 per cent yearly for the past two decades. It receives daily planes of the world's largest airlines from 72 countries. |
| 3. What air routes go through Heathrow? | 3. Convenient international transit routes go through Heathrow to Asia, Africa, Australia and America. |
| 4. Why do passengers have to transfer from one terminal to another? | 4. There are three main terminals of national and international airlines with easy transfer from one terminal to another. |
| 5. What airlines do the three terminals of Heathrow Airport serve? | 5. Terminal 1 serves British and Irish airlines, Terminal 2 has all the European airlines, and Terminal 3 handles the intercontinental flights. |
| 6. What formalities do foreign travellers fulfil on arrival at Heathrow? | 6. Passengers who arrive at Heathrow from other countries must go through passport control, metal detectors and a "green, red or blue channel" in the Customs hall. |
| 7. How is Heathrow Airport linked with Central London? | 13. The underground and the airbus provide a fast link between Central London and all three terminal buildings of the airport. |
| 8. How long does the journey from the British capital to Heathrow Airport take? | 14. The average journey time to Heathrow from Piccadily Circus takes 45 minutes. |
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