Announcement (Task)

Airline Announcements

Listen to some typical public announcements made in an airport or airplane.

Double-click the left button (>) to start. Click the middle button to stop. Click the right button to pause. Click it again to continue.

Pre-boarding Announcement

Good afternoon passengers. This is the pre-boarding announcement for flight 89B to Rome. We are now inviting those passengers with small children, and any passengers requiring special assistance, to begin boarding at this time. Please have your boarding pass and identification ready. Regular boarding will begin in approximately ten minutes time. Thank you.

Final Boarding Announcement

This is the final boarding call for passengers Erin and Fred Collins booked on flight 372A to Kansas City. Please proceed to gate 3 immediately. The final checks are being completed and the captain will order for the doors of the aircraft to close in approximately five minutes time. I repeat. This is the final boarding call for Erin and Fred Collins. Thank you.

Pre-flight Announcement

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome onboard Flight 4B7 with service from Hong Kong to San Francisco. We are currently third in line for take-off and are expected to be in the air in approximately seven minutes time. We ask that you please fasten your seatbelts at this time and secure all baggage underneath your seat or in the overhead compartments. We also ask that your seats and table trays are in the upright position for take-off. Please turn off all personal electronic devices, including laptops and cell phones. Smoking is prohibited for the duration of the flight. Thank you for choosing Mountain Airlines. Enjoy your flight.

Captain's Announcement

Good afternoon passengers. This is your captain speaking. First I'd like to welcome everyone on Rightwing Flight 86A. We are currently cruising at an altitude of 33,000 feet at an airspeed of 400 miles per hour. The time is 1:25 pm. The weather looks good and with the tailwind on our side we are expecting to land in London approximately fifteen minutes ahead of schedule. The weather in London is clear and sunny, with a high of 25 degrees for this afternoon. If the weather cooperates we should get a great view of the city as we descend. The cabin crew will be coming around in about twenty minutes time to offer you a light snack and beverage, and the inflight movie will begin shortly after that. I'll talk to you again before we reach our destination. Until then, sit back, relax and enjoy the rest of the flight.

Safety Briefing

Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the crew I ask that you please direct your attention to the monitors above as we review the emergency procedures. There are six emergency exits on this aircraft. Take a minute to locate the exit closest to you. Note that the nearest exit may be behind you. Count the number of rows to this exit. Should the cabin experience sudden pressure loss, stay calm and listen for instructions from the cabin crew. Oxygen masks will drop down from above your seat. Place the mask over your mouth and nose, like this. Pull the strap to tighten it. If you are traveling with children, make sure that your own mask is on first before helping your children. In the unlikely event of an emergency landing and evacuation, leave your carry-on items behind. Life rafts are located below your seats and emergency lighting will lead you to your closest exit and slide. We ask that you make sure that all carry-on luggage is stowed away safely during the flight. While we wait for take off, please take a moment to review the safety data card in the seat pocket in front of you.

Source   : englishclub.com

Questions  :

1. How many emergency exits are on the aircraft?

2. When will captain talk to the passengers again?

3. What is plane's type that goes to Kansas City based on the text?

4. When will oxygen masks drop down from above passenger seat?

5. Where are the altitude of Rightwing Flight 86A  when it is 1:25 pm?

Short Story Summary

The Bully 

The short story tells us about Roger - the people who was bullied by Tony his friend when they were in high school. They meet each other in a cafe. Firstly Roger didn't recognise Tony. But Tony's wife asked him about Tony. Then, suddenly he remember about Tony who always bullied him because Roger lived in orphanage and has a big ears. Roger is very surprised after looking Tony's poor condition use the wheelchair. Roger still help Tony to enter Tony's van even though he was bullied badly when in high school. Tony feels guilty of what he had done and apologise to him. They become a good friend.

Moral value : Karma does exist so be kind to everyone and stop bullying cause bullying breaks heart.

Characters  : Tony , Roger, Tony's wife, waiters.

Short Story

The Bully

Roger Dean Kiser

I walked into the Huddle House restaurant in Brunswick, Georgia and sat down at the counter as all of the booths were taken. I picked up a menu and began to look at the various items trying to decide if I wanted to order breakfast or just go ahead and eat lunch.

     "Excuse me," said someone, as they touched me on the shoulder.

     I looked up and turned to the side to see a rather nice looking woman standing before me.

     "Is your name Roger by any chance?" she asked me.

     "Yes." I responded, looking rather confused as I had never seen the woman before.

     "My name is Barbara and my husband is Tony," she said, pointing to a distant table near the door leading into the bathrooms.

     I looked in the direction that she was pointing but I did not recognize the man who was sitting, alone at the table.

     "I'm sorry. I'm, ah. I'm ah, confused. I don't think that I know you guys. But my name is Roger. Roger Kiser," I told her.

     "Tony Claxton. Tony from Landon High School in Jacksonville, Florida?" she asked me.

     "I'm really sorry. The name doesn't ring a bell." I said.     She turned and walked back to her table and sat down. She and her husband immediately began talking and once in a while I would see her turn around in her seat and look directly at me.

     I finally decided to order breakfast and a cup of decaffeinated coffee. I sat there continually racking my brain trying to remember who this Tony guy was.

     "I must know him," I though to myself. "He recognizes me for some reason." I picked up my coffee up and took a sip. All of a sudden it came to me like a flash of lighting.

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     "Tony. TONY THE BULL." I mumbled, as I swung myself around on my stool and faced in his direction.

     "The bully of my seventh grade geography class," I thought.

     How many times that sorry guy had made fun of my big ears in front of the girls in my class? How many times this sorry son-of-a-gun had laughed at me because I had no parents and had to live in an orphanage? How many times this big bully slammed me up against the lockers in the hallway just to make himself look like a big man to all the other students?

     He raised his hand and waved at me. I smiled, returned the wave and turned back around and began to eat my breakfast.

     "Jesus. He's so thin now. Not the big burley guy that I remember from back in 1957," I thought to myself.

     All of a sudden I heard the sound of dishes breaking so I spun around to see what had happened. Tony had accidentally hit several plates knocking them off the table as he was trying to get into his wheelchair which had been parked in the bathroom hallway while they were eating. The waitress ran over and started picking up the broken dishes and I listened as Tony and his wife tried to apologize.

     As Tony rolled by me, being pushed by his wife, I looked up and I smiled.

     "Roger" he said, as he nodded his head forward.

     "Tony" I responded, as I nodded my head, in return.

     I watched as they went out of the door and slowly made their way to a large van which had a wheelchair loader located in the side door of the vehicle.

     I sat and watched as his wife tried, over and over, to get the ramp to come down. But it just would not work. Finally I got up, paid for my meal, and I walked up to the van.

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     "What's the problem?" I asked.

     "Darn thing sticks once in a while," said Tony. "Could you help me get him in the van?" asked his wife.

     "I think I can do that," I said as I grabbed the wheelchair and rolled Tony over to the passenger door.

     I opened the door and locked the brakes on the wheelchair.

     "OK. Arms around the neck Dude," I said as I reached down and grabbed him around the waist and carefully raised him up into the passenger seat of the van.

     As Tony let go of my neck I reached over and swung his limp, lifeless legs, one at a time, into the van so that they would be stationed directly in front of him.

     "You remember. Don't you?" he said, looking directly into my eyes.

     "I remember, Tony," I said.

     "I guess you're thinking 'What goes around comes around'," he said, softly.

     "I would never think like that, Tony," I said, with a stern look on my face.

     He reached over and grabbed both of my hands and squeezed them tightly.

     "Is how I feel in this wheelchair how you felt way back then when you lived in the orphan home?" he asked me.

     "Almost, Tony. You are very lucky. You have someone to push you around who loves you. I didn't have anyone." I responded.

     I reached in my pocket and pulled out one of my cards that had my home telephone number written on it and I handed it to him.

     "Give me a call sometimes. We'll do lunch," I told him. We both laughed.

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     I stood there watching as they drove toward the interstate and finally disappeared onto the southbound ramp. I hope he calls me sometime. He will be the only friend that I have from my high school days

 Source : http://eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Bull.shtml

Elephant is An Animal!

ELEPHANT

Everyone in the world knows elephant. Elephant is a big animal. It's include of mammal animals. Elephants are the largest land-living mammal in the world. Elephants are an unique animal. They have some unusual part with unusual shape of their body such as trunk, tusk / ivory, ears, tail, etc. which have unusual functions too.
Elephants have same average age of life as human. They can live up to 70 years in wild. They eat grass, leave, nuts so we can clasify them into herbivorus group.
  
Gender
There are two kinds gender in elephants. They are female and male elephants. Female and male are quite different. We can distinguish where male or female elephant from this difference. We can see from the tusk. The larger tusk usually belongs to male. We can also distinguish from their sex. We can see a very long penis only from male elephant, you'll never found a penis from female elephant.

Types of Elephants

There are two types of elephants. They are Asian and African types. The differences are African is bigger than Asian but the Asian has a longer tusk than African one.They are mostly found in Africa and Asia.

Types of Elephants
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/elephant.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant

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