3. Listening: Emergency Situations

In this listening task, you are going to hear or read about three situations in which an employee is communicating his/her concerns to a senior officer or manager.

The contexts are as follows:

1) A vibrating turbine in a turbine hall of a hydroelectric power plant;

2) A passenger plane taking off at too low a speed;

3) The same scenario as in (2), but with another ending.

Your task in the listening exercise is to match the recording on the right to the description on the left. Then, provide a technical explanation behind the airspeed indicator failure here. To make this task easier, you may find it useful to study the diagram on p. 89 in your coursebook.

The airspeed indicator seemed to be one of the possible causes of the plane crash. The other cause probably was poor communication in the plane´s cockpit. So now, look at these guidelines for effective communication and put them in the correct order.