Turtle’s walk delays planes at Tokyo airport

There are many reasons for delays at airports. Sometimes it’s bad weather, sometimes it’s a technical problem, and other times it’s a passenger who is late to the boarding gate. Narita Airport in Tokyo, Japan has added a new cause of flight delays – a turtle going for a walk. The runway at Narita had to close for 12 minutes because a 2.1-kilogram turtle was spotted on the tarmac. The pilot of an airplane waiting to take off told air traffic controllers about the small reptile at around 11:35am. There was an immediate search for it. This caused the delay of five flights. Airport staff managed to locate the creature. They safely removed it with a net. They reported that it was unharmed.

A Narita Airport spokesperson said she believed the turtle lived in a nearby pond. It managed to get under a fence alongside the airport and crawl onto the runway. The turtle might have decided to sunbathe because of the warm weather. It was a lot warmer than usual at the airport for the time of the year. Shortly after the turtle was caught, an A380 airplane took off from the runway. By coincidence, the A380 was painted in a turtle design. The plane was from the Japanese airline ANA. It was going to the island of Okinawa in the south of Japan. An ANA spokesperson said: “Turtles are seen as bringing good luck. We hope this turtle, who came to see the flight off, signals a bright future.”

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2109/210930-turtle.html

Turtle’s walk delays planes at Tokyo airport

There are many reasons for delays at airports. Sometimes it’s bad weather, sometimes it’s a technical problem, and other times it’s a passenger who is late to the boarding gate. Narita Airport in Tokyo, Japan has added a new cause of flight delays – a turtle going for a walk. The runway at Narita had to close for 12 minutes because a 2.1-kilogram turtle was spotted on the tarmac. The pilot of an airplane waiting to take off told air traffic controllers about the small reptile at around 11:35am. There was an immediate search for it. This caused the delay of five flights. Airport staff managed to locate the creature. They safely removed it with a net. They reported that it was unharmed.

A Narita Airport spokesperson said she believed the turtle lived in a nearby pond. It managed to get under a fence alongside the airport and crawl onto the runway. The turtle might have decided to sunbathe because of the warm weather. It was a lot warmer than usual at the airport for the time of the year. Shortly after the turtle was caught, an A380 airplane took off from the runway. By coincidence, the A380 was painted in a turtle design. The plane was from the Japanese airline ANA. It was going to the island of Okinawa in the south of Japan. An ANA spokesperson said: “Turtles are seen as bringing good luck. We hope this turtle, who came to see the flight off, signals a bright future.”

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2109/210930-turtle.html

I sold my first car at 11 and earned a million by 14

Tom Hartley Jr

All my life, I’ve been around cars. Some of my earliest memories are of being in the showroom and wacth my father close deals for cars such as Ferraris and Lamborghinis. (...) Everyone’s good at something: I discovered my forte at an early age, and was fortunate enough to have a father who was already in the car business. I sold my first car - a Porsche convertible - at the age of 11 and by the time I was 14, I was buying and selling around three cars a week. That was the age I became Britain’s youngest self-made millionaire.

Sometimes people make the mistake of thinking that success has been handed to me on a plate. But everything I have I’ve earned myself - and all my share of profits went into a trust fund so that at 18 I was able to buy half of the business. (...) I love the fact that I get to meet different kinds of people through my work. One day I’ll be dealing with the guy from the corner shop who’s buying a Mercedes for his wife, and the next I’ll be meeting somebody famous.

I have a comfortable life, but it’s not overly ostentatious. I don’t have a car of my own. When I get to work, I’ll drive whatever car happens to be on the forecourt, and most days I’ll roll up my sleeves and wash it too. I haven’t had a proper holiday for years and I still live in the family home. I’m having my own house built at the moment. (...)

In my opinion, natural business acumen is not something that can be taught - it comes from the inside. There has to be an inherentcompetitive streak. Good salesmen are in competition with themselves - they’re always trying to do better and sell more. (...)

KAY, S.; HIRDS, J.; MAGGS, P. Move Upper Intermediate. Macmillan: Oxford, 2006.

I sold my first car at 11 and earned a million by 14

Tom Hartley Jr

All my life, I’ve been around cars. Some of my earliest memories are of being in the showroom and wacth my father close deals for cars such as Ferraris and Lamborghinis. (...) Everyone’s good at something: I discovered my forte at an early age, and was fortunate enough to have a father who was already in the car business. I sold my first car - a Porsche convertible - at the age of 11 and by the time I was 14, I was buying and selling around three cars a week. That was the age I became Britain’s youngest self-made millionaire.

Sometimes people make the mistake of thinking that success has been handed to me on a plate. But everything I have I’ve earned myself - and all my share of profits went into a trust fund so that at 18 I was able to buy half of the business. (...) I love the fact that I get to meet different kinds of people through my work. One day I’ll be dealing with the guy from the corner shop who’s buying a Mercedes for his wife, and the next I’ll be meeting somebody famous.

I have a comfortable life, but it’s not overly ostentatious. I don’t have a car of my own. When I get to work, I’ll drive whatever car happens to be on the forecourt, and most days I’ll roll up my sleeves and wash it too. I haven’t had a proper holiday for years and I still live in the family home. I’m having my own house built at the moment. (...)

In my opinion, natural business acumen is not something that can be taught - it comes from the inside. There has to be an inherentcompetitive streak. Good salesmen are in competition with themselves - they’re always trying to do better and sell more. (...)

KAY, S.; HIRDS, J.; MAGGS, P. Move Upper Intermediate. Macmillan: Oxford, 2006.

I sold my first car at 11 and earned a million by 14

Tom Hartley Jr

All my life, I’ve been around cars. Some of my earliest memories are of being in the showroom and wacth my father close deals for cars such as Ferraris and Lamborghinis. (...) Everyone’s good at something: I discovered my forte at an early age, and was fortunate enough to have a father who was already in the car business. I sold my first car - a Porsche convertible - at the age of 11 and by the time I was 14, I was buying and selling around three cars a week. That was the age I became Britain’s youngest self-made millionaire.

Sometimes people make the mistake of thinking that success has been handed to me on a plate. But everything I have I’ve earned myself - and all my share of profits went into a trust fund so that at 18 I was able to buy half of the business. (...) I love the fact that I get to meet different kinds of people through my work. One day I’ll be dealing with the guy from the corner shop who’s buying a Mercedes for his wife, and the next I’ll be meeting somebody famous.

I have a comfortable life, but it’s not overly ostentatious. I don’t have a car of my own. When I get to work, I’ll drive whatever car happens to be on the forecourt, and most days I’ll roll up my sleeves and wash it too. I haven’t had a proper holiday for years and I still live in the family home. I’m having my own house built at the moment. (...)

In my opinion, natural business acumen is not something that can be taught - it comes from the inside. There has to be an inherentcompetitive streak. Good salesmen are in competition with themselves - they’re always trying to do better and sell more. (...)

KAY, S.; HIRDS, J.; MAGGS, P. Move Upper Intermediate. Macmillan: Oxford, 2006.