READING COMPREHENSION 2º ESO

Queen of the Sky

Next autumn the biggest passenger plane in the world - the Airbus A380 - is going to make its
first public flight.

The plane is enormous - it's nearly 35 metres high and 75 metres long. To give you a better idea
of its size, try imagining ten buses placed on top of each other for nearly an entire football field
(a field measures 90 metres)! The wings on the Airbus are long enough to park 70 cars on!
There are also 500 kilometres of cables.

When it is full, the Airbus will carry 853 passengers - that's over 300 more than today's jumbo
jets. Inside the plane there's going to be lots of space for people to relax and travel in comfort.
There are also going to be cinemas, bars, shops, and even a gym with showers!

The new super-plane has Rolls Royce engines, which are very quiet, so it isn't going to cause
as much noise pollution as ordinary planes.

The Airbus A380 is going to take holidaymakers between London Heathrow and Changi airport
in Singapore.

GLOSSARY:
Passenger - pasajero
Wings - alas
Engine - motor
Holidaymakers - turistas

1. Read the text and answer the questions.

a) Is the Airbus A380 big or small?

b) Is the plane going to be comfortable for passengers?

2. Read the text again and decide if the sentences are true or false.

a) The Airbus flights started last autumn.

b) There is a football field on the plane.
c) There are parking spaces in the plane.
d) Jumbo jets carry more passengers than the airbus.
e) People can watch films on the plane.
f) The engines don't make much noise.

3. Vocabulary. Find the opposites of these words in the text.

a) smallest
b) last
c) very small
d) empty
e) outside
f) noisy