The Reading / Listening - Airlines - Level 1

The website AirlineRatings.com has announced its top airline for 2025. The website puts together the World's Best Airlines Awards. This year's winner is Korean Air. The website wrote: "Korean Air won...for its exceptional focus on passenger comfort, particularly in economy class." It added the airline provided slippers and large meals on long-haul flights. The reviewers praised the airline for its "modern, fuel-efficient aircraft".

There were winners in other categories. Qatar Airways won the best business class award. This was because it has a cabin with "fully enclosed private suites...offering passengers complete privacy". The best first-class company was Singapore Airlines. Singapore's Changi Airport won the world's best airport award. The top low-cost airline was AirAsia. In this category, the reviewers looked at meals and drinks, Wi-Fi, in-flight entertainment, and safety standards.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Airlines - Level 0 Airlines - Level 2   or  Airlines - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2025/02/10/the-best-airlines-in-2025-according-to-a-new-travel-ratings-report/
  • https://www.airlineratings.com/articles/worlds-best-airlines-for-2025
  • https://businesstravelerusa.com/news/world-best-airlines-2025/


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. The website
  2. its top airline
  3. This year's winner
  4. its exceptional focus
  5. the airline provided
  6. meals on long-
  7. The reviewers praised
  8. modern, fuel-
  1. slippers
  2. efficient aircraft
  3. on passenger comfort
  4. the airline
  5. AirlineRatings.com
  6. is Korean Air
  7. for 2025
  8. haul flights

Paragraph 2

  1. There were winners in
  2. Qatar Airways won the best business
  3. a cabin with fully enclosed private
  4. complete
  5. the world's best
  6. The top low-
  7. in-flight
  8. safety
  1. suites
  2. entertainment
  3. cost airline
  4. class award
  5. standards
  6. other categories
  7. airport award
  8. privacy

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

The website AirlineRatings.com has (1) _______________________________________________ airline for 2025. The website (2) ________________________________________________ World's Best Airlines Awards. This year's winner is Korean Air. (3) ________________________________________________: "Korean Air won...for its exceptional focus (4) ________________________________________________, particularly in economy class." It added the airline provided (5) _______________________________________________ meals on long-haul flights. The reviewers praised the airline for its "modern, (6) ________________________________________________".

There were winners (7) ________________________________________________. Qatar Airways won the best business class award. This was because it has a (8) ________________________________________________ enclosed private suites...offering (9) ________________________________________________". The best first-class company was Singapore Airlines. Singapore's Changi Airport won the world's (10) ________________________________________________. The top low-cost airline was AirAsia. (11) ________________________________________________, the reviewers looked at meals and drinks, Wi-Fi, in-flight entertainment, (12) ________________________________________________.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

ThewebsiteAirlineRatings.comhasannounceditstopairlinefor2025.T
hewebsiteputstogethertheWorld'sBestAirlinesAwards.Thisyear'swi
nnerisKoreanAir.Thewebsitewrote:"KoreanAirwon...foritsexception
alfocusonpassengercomfort,particularlyineconomyclass."Itaddedth
eairlineprovidedslippersandlargemealsonlong-haulflights.Therevie
werspraisedtheairlineforits"modern,fuel-efficientaircraft".Therewe
rewinnersinothercategories.QatarAirwayswonthebestbusinessclass
award.Thiswasbecauseithasacabinwith"fullyenclosedprivatesuites.
..offeringpassengerscompleteprivacy".Thebestfirst-classcompany
wasSingaporeAirlines.Singapore'sChangiAirportwontheworld'sbest
airportaward.Thetoplow-costairlinewasAirAsia.Inthiscategory,ther
eviewerslookedatmealsanddrinks,Wi-Fi,inflightentertainment,ands
afetystandards.

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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Free writing

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Answers

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