Knowing Amelia
Personatges:
Tema: Basic description of a person
Competències
Competència en Comunicació Lingüística
Competència personal, social i aprendre a aprendre
Matèries i cursos per Sistema Educatiu
Espanya > Anglés > 2n ESO > Comunicació
Enunciat
Observacions i context
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Carry out this activity after working on the other two previously mentioned activities: I believe I can fly and I can fly, I can talk.
Pioneer woman, with an adventurous spirit that led her to be the protagonist of some of the most important milestones in aviation at the time.
Among the forerunners we can mention
- Raymonde Laroche (France, 1888-1919), who is cited as the first woman to pilot a heavier-than-air powered aircraft in 1909.
- Thérèse Peltier (France, 1873-1926), who may have piloted an airship a year before Laroche.
- Harriet Quimby (United States, 1875-1912), who obtained her license in 1911 and a year later flew over the English Channel.
- Ruth Law (United States, 1887-1970), the first woman to fly at night. She fought to break the stereotypes of women aviators. Her article Let Women Fly! (1917) is famous.
Among her contemporaries, the following stand out
- Adrienne Bolland (France, 1895-1975), who flew over the Andes in 1921.
- Hélène Dutrieu (France, 1877-1961), who broke speed, altitude and duration records, but is remembered for flying without a corset.
- Marie Marvingt (France, 1875-1963), Lydia Litvyak (Russia, 1921-1943) and Mari Pepa Colomer (Spain, 1913-2004), female war aviators who served their countries.
- Beryl Markham (United Kingdom, 1902-1986), who, in 1932, shortly after Amelia Earhart's flight, flew from Ireland to Canada, setting the record for crossing the Atlantic from east to west.
-Amy Johnson (England, 1903-1941) pioneer of British aviation.
Later
- Jerrie Mock (United States, 1925-2014) made history as the first woman to fly solo around the world in an airplane (1964).
- Helen Richey (United States, 1909-1947), the first female commercial pilot in the United States, broke the endurance record in 1933, flying ten days in a row.
- Shaesta Waiz (Afghanistan, 1987- ) who in 2017 became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world.
In Spain, among others, we can name.
- M.ª de la Salud Bernaldo de Quirós Bustillo (1898-1983) first Spanish woman with a pilot's license,
- Margot Soriano Ansaldo (1908-1991) second Spaniard to obtain a pilot's license,
- Irene Aguilera (c.1900- c.1960), said to be the first Spaniard to learn to fly airplanes.
- Dolors Vives Rodón (1908-2007), Republican Army pilot during the Civil War, as was Mari Pepa Colomer.
- Bettina Kadner (Madrid, 1946- ), who until 1985 was the only female aviator to fly a passenger plane.
American women's rights activists of those years are Mary Lou Baker and Rosalyn Baxandall.
Descripció
We will watch the trailer of the movie based on the life of Amelia Earhart.
We will work on listening comprehension with the goal of improving it.
Description of physical and abstract qualities of people: What does Amelia look like? / What is she like?