Aviation English

Pass the aviation English proficiency test — the interview, the radio recordings, and the photo task, each trained in its real format, on its real clocks.

The exam pathway — seven lessons, start to finish

Work through them in order: the interview first, then the photographs, then the listening section — then a mini mock of the whole exam — and finally the two summaries of Section 4.
LESSON 01

The Test & the 60-Second Answer

How the exam is built, what the examiner scores from your first word, and the four-move shape that turns any interview question into a full, organised minute — trained on the general question bank: your job, your choice, your workplace.

Interview · general questions · 60-second timers
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LESSON 02

The Work Questions

Safety, errors, weather, emergencies and change — the four question types the work interview uses, and the grammar that answers them: sequence words, professional passives, cause-and-effect chains and honest opinions.

Interview · work-related questions · procedures & passives
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LESSON 03

The Photo Task — Five Photos, Two True Statements

Section 3 exactly as the exam sets it: five photographs, six statements each, two correct, 45 seconds a photo. The five traps every wrong statement is built from, the position and quantity words, the grammar of a frozen moment, the aircraft and airfield vocabulary — and a full five-photo run on the real clock.

Photo task · five photos · 45-second timers · pass-or-fail section
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LESSON 04

Routine Radio — The Numbers Game

The listening section begins. Call signs, flight levels, headings and frequencies — how radio numbers work, how to anchor them to their owners, and the similar-digit traps the test builds its wrong answers from.

Listening · routine dialogues · 15-second questions
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LESSON 05

Non-Routine Radio — What Went Wrong?

Stuck doors, sick passengers, warning lights that may be lying. Hearing exactly how bad a problem is — no worse, no better — through the little words that decide everything: may, unless, negative, still, about to.

Listening · non-routine dialogues · vocabulary in context
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LESSON 06

The Real Test, End to End

All four sections mapped, with exactly how the test is marked. Interview questions on the 60-second clock — including the questions about controllers — radio dialogues on 15-second clocks, the photographs, and a mini mock with one task from every section.

Mini mock · all four sections · how the test is marked
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LESSON 07

The Summaries — Section 4

The last section of the test: read a report, then summarise it with five key words that cannot change; hear a radio exchange that takes an unexpected turn, then say what happened in 45 seconds. Reporting verbs, linking words, fast notes — and a full Section 4 test run.

Summaries · report + key words · radio summary · 90- and 45-second timers
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BONUS

Weather on the Radio

Read an ATIS, turn a METAR into spoken English with the right number sounds, answer pilots’ weather questions in one clear sentence, and warn of a hazard in order. No audio needed — you do the talking.

ATIS · METAR spoken aloud · pilot questions · timed speaking
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FINAL

The Full Test

The whole test on one page with the error budget, a rapid-fire interview round, habits for the scored sections, one more summary, recovery phrases and a final checklist.

Full test map · timed speaking · recovery phrases · checklist
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FINISH

Quick-Fire Finish

Twelve fast questions pulling together radio words, numbers, weather codes, grammar and exam habits from the whole pathway.

12 questions · instant feedback · score
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MOCK TEST

The Full Mock Test

The whole test in one sitting: six interview questions, ten radio dialogues, five new photographs on 45-second clocks, and both Section 4 summaries. Sections 2 and 3 are scored for you, with the error limits for each level.

All four sections · real clocks · scored results
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SPEAKING

Talk It Through

A general speaking lesson for B1–B2, almost all talking: easy warm-up questions, a story told in five steps, the same story again shorter and smoother, linking phrases, and an opinion chat with plenty of sentence starters. Works with any student.

General English · B1–B2 · mostly speaking
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How to use this pathway

  1. One lesson per session, in order — each one trains a different section of the exam and assumes the previous.
  2. Speak everything aloud. The timers only measure what your voice actually does — reading silently trains nothing the exam tests.
  3. For the radio dialogues, the drills work best when someone reads the exchange to you at natural speed, once — that is the closest thing to the real recordings.
  4. Finish with Lesson 6 a few days before the test, and let its self-check send you back to whichever lesson needs a second pass.

Going deeper — the working-week lessons

Extension material beyond the exam format: the operational English of weather reporting, emergencies and difficult radio days. Use them to strengthen whatever the pathway exposes.
EXTENSION · A

The Test, the Codes & Your Work

The six skills the examiners listen for, radio numbers and the phonetic alphabet, core weather vocabulary, and reading a METAR — the foundations under everything else.

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EXTENSION · B

Forecasts & Standard Words

TAF codes — FM, BECMG, TEMPO, PROB — the standard radio words from Roger to Wilco, and the language of non-routine situations.

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EXTENSION · C

Emergencies & Telling the Story

MAYDAY vs PAN PAN, runway state and braking action, narrating an incident afterwards with past tenses and reported speech, and paraphrasing when the word won't come.

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EXTENSION · D

Hazards, Alerts & Messy English

Wind shear, microbursts and volcanic ash; the grammar of warnings; the say-again toolkit; translating stressed, non-standard pilot English into standard words; readback-error drills.

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EXTENSION · E

The Interview — Your Story, Deepened

A full lesson on the opening interview alone: the three-tense career story, nine question doors, upgrading answers from Level 3 to Level 5, and surviving follow-up interruptions.

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