Suvarnabhumi Airport is located 30 kilometers east of Bangkok. The airport has two parallel runways that are 60 meters wide and between 3,700 and 4,000 meters long. It can handle 76 flight operations per hour and process 45 million passengers and 3 million tons of cargo annually. The airport's large 563,000 square meter passenger terminal is the fourth biggest in the world and can currently handle 65 million passengers per year, but is expanding to increase its capacity further. The airport also has two five-story car park buildings that can accommodate 5,000 vehicles.

1. Class- VIIIClass- VIII
English 1st paperEnglish 1st paper
Presented by:Presented by:
Fauzia JesminFauzia Jesmin
Asst. TeacherAsst. Teacher
Department of EnglishDepartment of English
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2. Let’s guess something

3. Today’s Lesson
Unit - 1Unit - 1
Lesson -7Lesson -7
Reaching Bangkok

4. Learning outcome
After completing this lesson students will be able to -
• know about Suvarnabhumi Airport .
•know new words.
• read and understand texts.

5. Word meaning
derived- to come or develop from
Parallel- very similar or taking place at the
same time
cargo - the goods carried in a ship or plane:
Capacity- the ability to understand or to do

6. Loud reading
The plane landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport at 4:55 p.m. The name
‘Suvarnabhumi’, is pronounced as “su-wan-na-poom”. The name is derived
from Sanskrit, which means golden land. The name was chosen by King
Bhumibol Adulyadie.
The airport is located in Racha Thewa in the Bang Phli district of Samut
Prakan province, 30 kilometers east of Bangkok.
The airport has two parallel runways. Both of them are 60 metre wide. One
of the runways is 4000 meter long and the other is 3,700 meters. It can
handle 76 flight operations per hour. It can handle 45 million passengers
and 3 million tonnes of cargo per year.
The airport passenger terminal is 563,000 square meter that is, 6,060,000
square feet. It is the fourth biggest passenger terminal building in the world.
The airport is going through phase 2. It will raise the airport’s capacity to
handle 65 million passengers per year. The airport has two 5 storey car park
buildings. The buildings can house 5000 cars.

7. King Bhumibol Adulyadie. Suvarnabhumi Airport

8. Racha Thewa

9. Suvarnabhumi Airport
Two parallel runways of Suvarnabhumi

10. Cargo handle of Suvarnabhumi
Passenger terminal Car Parking

11. Group Work