Show some pictures to review the text of Unit 1 and Unit 2 Talk about your journey by car / train / plane. Step 2 Language practice 1. Read through the example sentences with the whole class. 1) He went to stay with his family in the UK. ...
Just as the aircraft was ready to depart, ‘Kiddo’ a grey tabby, one of the former stray twin cats that lived around the airship hangar, jumped into one of the airship’s lifeboats. After unsuccessful attempts to remove him from the ship, Kiddo was left onboard as the America began t...
外文素材改编自SPECTRUM Reading女飞行员阿梅利亚传奇的一生Ameli a Earhart took her first flight in a plane when she was 23. That event, however, was life-changing.Earhart hated to be a housewife like her moth-er, although this was a social role for women at that time. She collected many...
To make things worse her altimeter(高度表) failed and she didn’t know how high she was flying. At night and in a storm a pilot is in great difficulty without an altimeter. At times her plane nearly plunged into the sea. 可知她遇到暴风雨,高度表出了故障,从第二段的句子:Just before ...
5 Edith Wharton is the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, 1921 6 Activist Alice Paul proposes the Equal Rights Amendment for the first time, 1923 7 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane, 1928 8 Frances Perkins becomes the first female member of a Presid...
cross, through, hero, stop, take, complete, name,fly The first pilot to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean In 1919, A pilot 1. ___ Charles Lindbergh from St Louis, the US decided to try to fly from New York to Paris. It 2. ___ him some time, but eventually he developed the ...
In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane (accompanying pilot Wilmer Stultz), for which she achieved celebrity status. In 1932, piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Earhart made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a ...
For the first time ever, a commercial plane flew across the Atlantic Ocean with fossil fuels. It landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. The plane's flight was powered only by sustainable aviation(航空) fuels, or SAF, a category of jet fuel that creates fewer ...
In this article, editor of the December 2003 issue of the periodical "Mechanical Engineering" says the first time he was in a plane, it was on a cross-Atlantic flight when he was six years old. In those days, the aeronautics industry was still in its pre-growth stage. Flying was a ...
The plane's single-engine design caused many to doubt its ability to cross the vast Atlantic. Previous attempts had all included multi-engine planes. Also, co-pilots had been a staple on the 3,500-mile (5,632-kilometer) journey, but Lindbergh intended to fly alone. Lindbergh omitted a pa...