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Amazing facts... Every year Heathrow hands over There are 9,200 baggage

57,000,000 items of baggage. trolleys for passengers

- more than at any other airport.

Airport cafes and bars serve Heathrow’s duty-free

over 23,500 cups of coffee shops sell 500 million

tea and 11,500 sandwiches every day. cigarettes every year.

For every 10 cm of snow Heathrow averages aro-

falling on the airport, staff und 1000 take-offs and

have to remove 74,000 landings every day-

tons of snow to keep the that’s about one per

airport open. minute from 6 a.m. till midnight.

3,000,000 litres of 70 airlines use Heathrow.

aviation fuel are They fly direct to 214

used every day. destinations in 85 countries.

2. Fill the gaps with numbers from the box. Then check your answers in the text.

14

30

85

1000

9,200

23,500

53,000

74,000

3,000,000

57,000,000

500,000,000

a) Heathrow airport handles over ______ items of baggage every year.

b) More than ______ people work at Heathrow airport.

c) Every day around ______ planes take off and land at Heathrow.

d) Around ______ litres of aviation fuel are used every day.

e) Heathrow's police station has ______ dogs that can smell drugs.

f) The duty-free shops sell ______ cigarettes every year.

g) Every year, around ______ people die of heart attacks travelling to or through Heathrow.

h) _____ cups of tea and coffee are served in the airport every day.

i) There are ______ baggage trolleys for passengers to use.

j) If 10 cm of snow falls, staff have to clear ____ tons of snow.

k) You can fly direct from Heathrow to _____ countries.

3. Pair work. Ask your friend about Heathrow airport. Begin each sentence from How many...? and use sentences of exercise 2. Listen to your friend's answer.

4. Which of these remarks are true? Begin your sentence with "Oh, yes, it's true..." or "Oh, no, it's not true..."

a) ‘They have to keep washing the runways.’

b) ’Birds aren't problem to modern aircraft.’

c) ‘If you're in a small plane, you shouldn't fly too close behind a jumbo jet.’

d) ‘If a plane can't lower its wheels, it has to land on the grass beside the runway.’

e) ‘There aren't any flights from Heathrow after midnight.’

5. There are at least nine phrasal verbs in the text. Find their meaning in the dictionary and use them in the sentences of your own.

out of into up away out off in

clear ... keep ... pick ... send ... pull ... frighten ... come ...

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