Climb Level 4 - ICAO English

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ICAO level 4 and above requires students to "produce stretches of language at an appropriate tempo", and to give "immediate, appropriate and informative" responses to messages. Personnel are also required to deal with misunderstandings by "checking, confirming and clarifying".

Climb Level 4 has a variety of exercise types to help students improve their fluency and interactions. One major cause of disfluency is pausing to access grammar or vocabulary and so many of the fluency exercises within each module are based on the grammar and vocabulary that is taught in that module. The exercises move from controlled production to freer production. For example, students

  1. Read sentences fluently (controlled production)

  2. Listen to sentences and then repeat them (interactive readback)

  3. Describe images (free production)

In each of the exercises, the student is given feedback about their pausing and rate of speech.
 
Presentation: FLUENCY

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Climb Level 4 also provides extensive practice in recognising and resolving misunderstandings. There are lots of interactive exercises where the student has to take the role of an ATCO talking to a pilot. If the pilot misunderstands ATC instructions, the student has to correct the misunderstanding. These exercises again have been written by aviation personnel and cover the most common causes of misunderstandings, such as incorrect readback, level busts, confusion about altimeter pressure settings, etc.

The fluency and interactions curricula also contain a wide variety of international accents.

 

"I need to respond quickly and appropriately in all kinds of emergency situations".