Word Pairs

HOW TO PLAY:

  • Type the correct word in the boxes from the pairs of words [in brackets].
  • Click the button at the bottom to check your answers.
  • Press the "refresh" button on your browser to play again.

The words
Severe turbulence forced [an / the] airplane into an emergency landing on Monday. Nearly 40 people were [injury / injured] on the Air Europa Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane. It was [flying / flight] from Spain to Uruguay. Turbulence hit the plane [under / over] the Atlantic, as it [neared / nearly] South America. Air traffic controllers told the pilot [to / for] make an emergency landing in Natal, in north-eastern Brazil. Many of the injured were [treated / treating] at a hospital in Natal. Other injured people [completed / competed] their journey to Uruguay's capital city Montevideo by bus. Air Europa sent a new plane from Madrid on Monday. It flew passengers who [choice / chose] not to take the bus to their final destination. The turbulence is the latest in a [string / thread] of mid-air occurrences to injure many people.

Turbulence is the [violent / violence] or unsteady movement of air. Modern aircraft are designed to survive [strong / strongly] winds and dangerous pockets of air. It is [extreme / extremely] rare for turbulence to damage an airplane. It is even rarer [on / for] it to cause a plane to crash. The biggest danger to passengers [come / comes] from not wearing a seat belt. Anyone standing up in the airplane, or not [worn / wearing] a seat belt while seated, can be thrown around the cabin. They can suffer bad injuries [by / at] hitting their head on overhead lockers or on the plane's [sealing / ceiling] . Scientists from Reading University in the UK reported that [several / severe] turbulence is getting [worse / worsen] because of climate change. They said incidents increased by 55 per cent between 1979 and 2020.

Back to the turbulence lesson.

Share this lesson

More Free Sites by Sean Banville

Online Activities