Future aircraft
Pair Work
C. Imagine you are a TV reporter. You have come to interview the chief engineer of the HTV-2 Launch Project. What questions will you ask him/her? Design a short dialogue between yourself and the engineer, and write it. Finally act it out in pairs with proper sounds, stress and intonation.
F. Have you ever dreamt of flying to a city/country of your choice? If yes, write about your dream. If not, try to imagine you are flying to that place in a plane. Write about your experience and expectations.
If you fly westward in a supersonic plane such as Concorde, you will land several hours before you took off. Can you explain how?
E. The following passage is based on the information in section B. Read the text in B again. Discuss in pairs and complete the following sentences with will/would, can/could/could not.
Even Concorde fly as fast as Falcon HTV-2. The news report says: the US Defense Agency launch the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 into space. Scientists expect that the Falcon HTV-2 fly at 13,000 miles per hour. The US military wishes that the Falcon bomb any part of the world in less than an hour in the future. Engineers plan that they set the Falcon on the back of a rocket to launch it into the distant space.