Flying High

Have you ever traveled by airplane? Do you know that you also can say aeroplane? Let’s talk about this fantastic machine and some ways of flying.

I really love to talk about this point, you know! My daddy worked in the Air Force and I studied to be a flight attendant, but I gave it up and I’m here as an English teacher to help you to improve learning your second language.

Airplane and aeroplane are two different ways to say the same thing. Canadians and Americans prefer to say airplane, while the other English speaking countries prefer to say aeroplane. North-Americans consider aeroplane such an old-fashioned expression.

Helicopters take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward, and laterally. These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where many forms of vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts cannot perform.

Rocket engines work by action and reaction. Rocket engines push rockets forward by expelling their exhaust in the opposite direction at high speed.

Hot Air Balloon consists of a bag called the envelope that is capable of containing heated air. Suspended beneath is a basket which carries passengers and a source of heat, in most cases an open flame.

Hang-glider is a device similar to a kite that makes people fly high in the skies. It is also a popular radical sport. You can try it on in Maranguape Mountain.

Dário Conde, professor de inglês