Flying with the wind

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: a balloon pilotListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9What does it mean?Grammar exercise
10. 10Find the present perfectGrammar exercise
11. 11The present perfect for experiencesGrammar rule
12. 12ExperiencesGrammar exercise
13. 13Say it right: have you ever…?Speaking practice
14. 14Have you ever…?Speaking practice
15. 15Let's discussDiscussion
16. 16Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: find the mistakeGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: my experiencesDiscussion

Words

• passenger/ˈpæsɪndʒər/

  a person who travels in a car, a plane or a balloon but doesn't drive or fly it

• pilot/ˈpaɪlət/

  a person who flies a plane or a balloon

• basket/ˈbæskɪt/

  a container made of thin pieces of wood or plastic, for carrying things

• burner/ˈbɜːrnər/

  the part that makes a big, hot flame

• steer/stɪr/

  to control which way a car, a boat or a plane goes

• rise/raɪz/

  to go up (past: rose)

• land/lænd/

  to come down to the ground after flying

• calm/kɑːm/

  quiet and still, with no wind or big waves; not worried

• festival/ˈfestɪvl/

  a special event with music, shows or food, often for several days

• view/vjuː/

  everything you can see from a place

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about flying.

1. Do you like flying? Why, or why not?
2. Do you like high places, or are you afraid of heights?
3. Have you ever seen a hot-air balloon?

Grammar rule

The present perfect for experiences

have / has + past participle

	Example
Positive	I've flown in a balloon. She's been to Mexico.
Negative	I haven't seen that movie. He's never been to Asia.
Question	Have you ever been to Paris? — Yes, I have. / No, I haven't. / No, never.

I, you, we, they → have ('ve) · he, she, it → has ('s)

Experiences: some time in your life

Use the present perfect for experiences, when you don't say when: I've ridden a camel. Have you ever eaten sushi? ever = at any time in your life; never = at no time.

When you say when, use the past simple

Have you ever been to Mexico? — Yes, I have. I went there in 2022. (not I have been there in 2022)

Past participles: regular verbs take -ed (visited, tried). Some irregular ones: be → been, see → seen, eat → eaten, fly → flown, ride → ridden, take → taken, meet → met, have → had, do → done, drive → driven, break → broken.

been to = went there and came back: She's been to Japan twice.