8 Work in pairs. Answer the following questions on the text. Then, using your answers, give a summary of the text.

1 What means of transport can people use when they don’t like travelling on foot?

2 Why did the man go down to Belfast Docks?

3 What did the man see on board one of the largest liners?

4 When and how did the ship leave the harbour?

5 How did the man get to New York?

6 Did it take him much time to arrive at the destination?

7 What can be seen at a big railway station?

9 Before reading the text below, match the words in the box with their definitions (1-8).

handle runway tyre truck engine jumbo jets aircraft wheel

1 It means to control the movement of a vehicle, tool, etc.

2 It’s a plane or other vehicle that can fly.

3 It’s a long specially prepared hard surface like a road on which aircraft land and take off.

4 It’s a thick round band of rubber that fits around the wheel of a car, bicycle, etc.

5 It’s a large road vehicle used to carry goods.

6 It’s a piece of machinery with moving parts that changes power from steam, electricity, oil, etc. into movement.

7 It’s a very large aircraft for carrying passengers.

8 It’s one of the round things under a car, bus, bicycle, etc. that turns when it moves.

10 Fill the gaps (a-k) with numbers (1-11) from the box. Then check your answers in the text.

a Heathrow airport handles over ___ items of baggage every year.	1 14
b More than _____ people work at Heathrow airport.	2 30
c Every day around _____ planes take off and land at Heathrow.	3 85
d Around _____ litres of aviation fuel are used every day.	4 1000
e Heathrow’s police station has _____ dogs that can smell drugs.	5 9,200
f The duty-free shops sell _____ cigarettes every year.	6 23,500
g Every year, around _____ people die of heart attacks travelling to or through Heathrow.	7 53,000
h _____ cups of tea and coffee are served in the airport every day.	8 74,000
i There are _____ baggage trolleys for passengers to use.	9 3,000,000
j If 10 cm of snow falls, staff have to clear _____ tons of snow.	10 57,000,000
k You can fly direct from Heathrow to _____ countries.	11 500,000,000

11 Read the text to decide if each statement (1-6) is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, choose a (Yes). If it is not correct, choose в (No).

Statements	A Yes	B No
1 ‘They have to keep washing the runways.’ 2 ‘Birds aren’t a problem to modern aircraft.’ 3 ‘If you’re in a small plane, you shouldn’t fly too close behind a jambo jet. ’ 4 ‘If a plane can’t lower its wheels, it has to land on the grass beside the runway.’ 5 Annually about thirty people die of different diseases while travelling through Heathrow. 6 ‘There aren’t any flights from Heathrow after midnight.’