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JSC English First Paper | Unit: Six, Lesson: 7 | Going on a foreign trip | Reaching Bangkok

Key words: derived parallel cargo capacity

A. Look at the picture and talk about it.
Class viii , JSC English First Paper » JSC English First Paper  Unit Six, Lesson 7  Going on a foreign trip  Reaching Bangkok

1. What do you see?
2. What could be this place?
3. How do you know?

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

2 origin of the name

3 chosen by

4 meaning

5 distance from Bangkok

6 runway

7 length of runways

8 aircraft control per hour

9 number of passengers

10 cargo handled

11 car parking

12 number of passengers in future


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

Ul, L7 C
Listening text: 5

Questions
Suvarnabhumi Airport has
1 checkpoints for arrivals: 130/131/132
2 checkpoints for departures : 70/71/72
3 custom control checkpoints for arrivals: 25/26/27
4 custom control checkpoints for departures: 4/6/8
5 baggage conveyor belts: 20/22/24
6 check-in counters: 360/361/362
7 moving walkways: 106/107/108
8 elevators: 102/103/104
9 escalators: 81/82/83

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