Unit 9 Lesson 5 Future aircraft

Slide 1

a) Have you enjoyed watching the video? Why / why not? share with your
friends.

Slide 2
Read the text in B and choose the best answer from the alternatives.

Slide 3: Vocabulary
click on each word
Word Meaning Example
withstand Remain undamaged The HTV-2 was
or unaffected by, built to withstand
resist in any weather
condition.
space the atmosphere A rocket is a
outside the Earth vehicle that
travels in space.
base a place where an After the attack,
army, a navy etc. they returned to
operates from the base.
launch to start an activity The Navy is going
to launch a new
warship today.
hypersonic moving at more than The plane Falcon
five times of the speed can fly in
of sound hypersonic speed
of 13,000 m/h.
research a careful study of a An American
subject company
researched to
build a new
model of the
Airbus.

Slide 4:
Read the passage in B again and make five meaningful sentences from the
table.