Unit 1 Life Choices Viewing Workshop课件 2023-2024学年高一英语北师大版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 1 Viewing Workshop Amelia Earhart 新 课 导 入 Let’s talk Do you know who she is? What was her job? 课 堂 学 习 Look and learn Amelia Earhart (July 24, 1897–disappeared 1937) was a noted American aviation pioneer. Amelia Earhart 1. A female pilot 2. American aviation pioneer 3. The first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in history · October 1922 – Broke women’s altitude record when she rose to 14,000 feet; · June 1928 – Became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic; · August 1928 – Became the first woman to fly solo across the North American continent and back; · June 1930 – Set women’s speed record for 100 kilometers with no load and with a load of 500 kilograms; · July 1930 – Set speed record of 181.18mph over a 3K course; · May 1932 – First woman and second person to fly solo across the Atlantic; · August 1932 – First woman to fly transcontinental solo nonstop; set women’s nonstop transcontinental speed record, flying 2,447.8 miles in 19hrs 5min; · January 1935 – First person to fly the 2,408-mile distance across the Pacific between Honolulu and Oakland; · June 1937 – Began flight around the world … How do you understand her quote? Her quote means that she was flying an airplane for the first time and at that time she knew that she wanted to be a pilot. “By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly.” 2 Watch the video. Tick (√ ) the events and activities that you think had an influence on Amelia Earhart’s decision to become a pilot. Give reasons. a climbed trees, collected bugs, hunted rats and explored the neighbourhood b saw her first plane at the Iowa State Fair c graduated from high school in Chicago d attended an air show with her dad in Long Beach e visited her sister in Toronto and admired wounded soldiers f worked as a nurse aid and watched the Royal Corps practising g worked several hard jobs to pay for flying lessons h purchased a bright yellow biplane