miércoles, 28 de enero de 2015

ICAO Spanish exam at Tenidiomas


Spanish is one of the most important languages in the world because of the number of speakers. This means that Spanish is needed not only for pleasure but also for work, business, education, etc.

Tenidiomas is professionalizing its Spanish courses and we are/is opening a new course for the preparation of ICAO exam in Spanish. Do you know what the exam is like?

The Spanish ICAO exam consists of 7 parts:

Part 1 – Introduction questions:
These questions will generally be about yourself – why you decided to become a pilot, what you might have decided to do if you hadn’t become a pilot, your current job, your likes and dislikes about flying, plus possibly asking about your thoughts on your future aviation career.

Part 2 – Describing a picture:
The picture will be an image related to some sort of aviation situation.  So, make sure you use some aviation related vocabulary when describing the picture i.e various parts of the plane, general aviation terminology (crosswind, bird strike, pilot error, go around, emergency situation, crash landing, fuselage, ATC, overshot the runway, turbulence, nose gear, etc).




Part 3 - Read back section – Radio Telephony:
This is the section where you receive instructions from ATC and you ‘read back’ as if you were the pilot receiving the instruction. You will be given your callsign and any other relevant information.
You only have to read back the information that is required by ICAO.  Just treat the exercise as a flight you are currently operating.

Part 4 - Identifying a miscommunication between a pilot and ATC:
Think about what might be the cause of a miscommunication (i.e. misunderstanding of: coordinates, ATC instructions, callsign, etc.).  This will help you identify the miscommunication between ATC and the pilot. 

Part 5 - Describing a video:
After watching the short video clip you have to describe what you saw using past tenses.  Try your best to use Past Simple, Past Continuous or Present Perfect correctly.  You could also use the Past Perfect and conditional sentences if you feel this would clarify what you saw. 

Part 6 - Listening to an Aviation Related Incident:
In this section you will have to listen to a person giving a report of an ‘aviation related incident’. Please take notes while listening.
After listening you have to retell the events that took place in your own words. You can also listen to the events twice.

Part 7 - General questions about aviation:
This part involves answering 2 questions about general aviation situations such as landing, approach, the weather, runways, etc. 

Our ICAO course is focused on the ICAO exam, so you will practice every part of the exam with our teachers. Tuition is divided into three hours per session: 1.5h general Spanish grammar – 1.5h ICAO exam preparation. During the course only Spanish will be spoken.

If you need more information about our Spanish course, please do not hesitate to send us an email.

If you need more information about the ICAO exam, please follow this link.

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