English for Flight Attendants

Introduction

English for Flight Attendants is an online course, consisting of 93 units of English, and providing approximately 100 hours of study for students.

Course aims

To give students at Intermediate, CEFR B1/Upper Intermediate B2 level practice in general and business-oriented language required for business contexts at this level, specifically tailored towards the specialisation of flight attendant duties. The course blends grammatical structures necessary for this level, with vocabulary, reading, listening, writing, speaking, and pronunciation.

Grammar

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Use present tenses to describe situations in short-term and long-term present time
• Correctly use adverbs to describe degree
• Use modal verbs to talk about the functions of obligation and possibility
• Correctly use adverbs to describe how actions are performed
• Select the correct past form to talk about actions happening before now
• Use modal verbs to talk about the functions of requests, offers, and suggestions
• Use modal verbs to talk about the functions of ability and permission
• Use going to and will correctly, to talk about future intentions and predictions
• Correctly use adverbs to describe time and sequence
• Use the present perfect tense to describe a link between actions happening in the past and in the present

Vocabulary

By the end of the course students will have learnt approximately 150 lexical items used in a cabin crew and flight attendant context.

Skills

By the end of the course students will have had exposure to and practice in reading and hearing formal and informal English from a variety of accents and contexts.

Unit summary

Follow-up

Students completing the English for Flight Attendants course should feel confident in tackling any upper intermediate course, including our Upper Intermediate Business Power course.