Noisy Travelers

A: Vocabulary: Label the words in these pictures.

airplane ___, passengers ___, seat ___,child ___,

B: Discussion: Answer these questions.

1. Do you like flying in an airplane?

2. Why or why not?
3. How often do you fly?
4. What things do you like most about flying?
5. What do you dislike about flying?
6. Do other passengers annoy you?How do they annoy you?

Reading Activities

A: Understanding the main idea

Choose the best answer for this question about today's article.

What do passengers dislike?

a. parents with noisy children

b. passengers who talk a lot

c. both answers a. and b.

 What Air Passengers Hate
1. Mon Dec 09 (Reuters) Americans hate 4. Travelers in the survey also don't like
parents who don't take care of their passengers who talk too much. 73% of
children on planes, a new study found. passengers said they hate sitting next to
Passengers don't like parents who let people who talk a lot on airplanes. [85%
their kids misbehave or cry on planes. said they are happy to talk a little.]

2. The 2013 Expedia Airplane Etiquette 5. Here are the five most annoying
study talked to 1,001 American behaviors from the survey:
travelers. The study asked travelers • inattentive parents
what kind of passengers they disliked • passengers who kick the seat of the
when they were traveling by airplane. person behind them
• 'smelly' passengers
3. 63% of the travelers in the survey said • 'boozer' passengers - passengers who
they feel annoyed by parents traveling drink too much
with noisy children. • talkative passengers

B: Completing a table
Complete this table of information about today's article.

Name of study:
Country of study:
Year:
Number of travelers:
Subject of Study: the kinds of passengers American air travelers dislike the most

C: Finding Synonyms

1. Find a synonym for don't like in paragraph 2 of today's article.

2. Find a synonym for kids in paragraph 3 of today's article.
3. Find a synonym for talk too much in paragraph 5 of today's article.

D: Understanding Numbers

Match the correct information with the correct pie chart

A.
B.
C

passengers who like talking a little to other passengers

passengers who don't like talkative passengers
passengers who don't like parents with misbehaving or crying children on planes

E: Over to you
1. When was the last time you took a plane? Where to?
2. Do you remember any incident/funny situation? Tell your partners

Reading Recommendation: AirBabylon: The book is basically a lot of anecdotes

compiled in a fictional day of an Airport Duty Manager of the imaginery Air
Babylon Airlines, organized in 24 chapters that span each hour of the day from 5am
– til 5am the next day. We witness the Airport operations from handling flight
arrivals early in the morning that arrive with dead people and criminals on board as
well as with a snake that broke loose during the flight, through check-in and
boarding, including the always required and sought after quick cigarettes on the
apron as well as the must-have coffee breaks to fight the hangover from the last
day… It’s a good laugh!