Independent activity 8

Listening downloads archive: The Airbus

Main ideas:

- Its overall length is 73 metres. That’s about as long as the Great Sphinx in Egypt!!!!

- The A380 can fly a staggering 15,000km without refuelling and in order to do that, it needs to carry 310,000 litres of fuel, making the plane’s take off weight 560 tonnes.

- The building of the A380 is a remarkable example of transnational cooperation. The final assembly line is in Toulouse in France, but this is only the end of an impressively complicated process.

- The construction of each aircraft is the result of collaboration between France, Germany, Britain and Spain. The wings, for example, are built in England and Wales.

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/prof_mp3/airbus.pdf


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