English For Today Class 8

Reaching Bangkok

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Look, Listen & Say
Listen, Say & do
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Rhyme

Pair Work
Draw and Color
Vocabulary

Word Meaning

Groupwork

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Read and complete the chart
Listen and Circle the information

B. Read the text and complete the chart.

The plane landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport at 4:55 p.m. The name “Suvarnabhumi’ is pronounced as “su-wan-na-poom”. The name is derived from Sanskrit, which means golden land. The name was chosen by King Bhumibol Adulyadie.

The airport is located in Racha Thewa in the Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan province, 30 kilometres east of Bangkok.

The airport has two parallel runways. Both of them are 60 metre wide. One of the runways is 4000 metres long and the other is 3,700 metres. It can handle 76 flight operations per hour. It can handle 45 million passengers and 3 million tonnes of cargo per year.

The airport passenger terminal is 563,000 square metres that is, 6,060,000 square feet. It is the fourth biggest passenger terminal building in the world. The airport is going through phase 2. It will raise its capacity to handle 65 million passengers per year. The airport has two 5-storey car park buildings. The buildings can house 5000 cars.

Bangkok Airport	Information
1. name	Suvarnabhumi
2. origin of the name	From Sanskrit
3. chosen by	King Bhumibol
4. meaning	Golden land
5. distance from Bangkok	30 kilometres
6. runway	Two parallel runways
7. length of runways
8. aircraft control per hour	76 flight operations
9. number of passengers	45 million per year
10. cargo handled	3 million tonnes per year
11. car parking	Two 5-storeycar parking buildings
12. number of passengers in future	65 million passengers per year

C. Listen to the teacher/CD and circle the correct information.

Questions

Suvarnabhumi Airport has

1. checkpoints for arrivals:

130

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132

2. checkpoints for departures:

3. custom control checkpoints for arrivals:

4. custom control checkpoints for departures:

5. baggage conveyor belts:

6. check-in counters:

360

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362

7. moving walkways:

106

107

108

8. elevators:

102

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104

9. escalators:

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