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From the History of Flying

Pre-reading

A) Brainstorm the words which come to your mind when you think of flight.

B) Choose those ones that may be related to the human flight and explain why you have chosen them.

Before you read the text try to answer the following questions. Shear your answers.

1) Why can airplanes fly? Is there any difference between flight of birds and airplanes?

2) What are the main forces acting on the aircraft in flight?

3) What types of the aircraft do you know?

Scan the text and try to guess the meaning of underlined words from the content of the text.

Reading

1. Read the text and highlight the key ideas of each paragraph.