Aviation English

ILSF is now proud to announce that it can offer courses in Aviation English.  Our courses are designed and suitable for both pilots, air traffic controllers and aviation industry employees.  ILSF works closely together with partner schools in England and Germany and can offer these courses in a both countries. You can choose a course from one of the following options:

1. Attaining Operational ICAO Level
2. Maintaining Operational ICAO Level 4
3. Trainee ATC/Pilots/Ground technicians:  Attaining, Maintaining and Exceeding operational  ICAO level 4.

For details of the courses we have on offer in England please contact us directly. Courses run in Germany last for 4 weeks and contain 100 hours of tuition and are designed for people who have ICAO level 3 and need to get to ICAO  level 4.

The focus of the course is on speaking and listening skills, especially in “plain” English in an aviation context. Each course concludes with the Aviation English Test (A.E.T.) The content of the course reflects the requirements of the 6 areas covered by ICAO descriptors.

Pronunciation	Structure	Vocabulary
Stress	Basic Grammar	Paraphrasing
Rythm	Sentence patterns	Succict and assertive language
Intonation	Tense forms	Abbreviations and acronyms
Ebnunciation

 

Fluency	Comprehension	Interactions
Linking words and phrases	Understanding through masking (for example, background noise)	Ability to pass information
Speed of communication	Distinguishing similar sounding words/numbers	Ability to respond to unfamiliar situations
		Checking, clarifying, confirming, information

 

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4
Monday
AM	Induction - Management of dialogue-Greeting- Reassuring	Technology - Giving reasons present and past	Dangerous Situations - Predicting, warning and expressing inevitability	Schedules and Arrangements - Talking about the future
PM	ICAO Descriptors - Analysing Information	Machines & Devices - Paraphrasing, word stress, clauses	Checking & understanding - Question forms and intonation	A. E. II - Giving full responses
Tuesday
AM	Health - Giving and receiving advice	The Future of Aviation - Stating Intent	Destinations and - Geography - Describing position location and visual impression	Machines and Vehicles - Needs, preferences and feasibility
PM	A. E. I - Background question forms	A. E. II - Problem solving and confirmation	A. E. I - Organisations - Summarising and evaluating	A. E. III - Managing conversation
Wednesday
AM	Rules & Regulations - Asking and giving approval	Weather - Describing recent events, change progression	Investigations - Speculating, deducing and reporting	Mock A.E. TEST - Feedback
PM	Directions - Giving and asking for clarification	Nationalities and Cultural Differences - Clauses and sentence stress	Error correction - Sentence stress	Orders - Emphasis and imperatives
Thursday
AM	Procedure - Giving and receiving instructions - Describing a process	Perception/Senses - Offering and suggesting	Environmental trends - Expressing probability likelihood and consequence	Emergencies - Describing necessity
PM	A. E. II - Readback - connected speech	A. E. III - Tempo, discourses makers and fillers	A. E. II - Declaring and managing non- understanding	The Airport - Interacting and responding
Friday
AM	Aviation History - Sequencing-Linking	Disasters/ Emergencies - Past Events/avoided problems	Problems - Describing actions in progress	Final A. E. TEST
PM	TEST	TEST	TEST	Exit Session - Feedback