1. Read a biography of Amelia Earhart. Match each paragraph with one of these topics.
a. the end of her life
It was inevitable that Earhart would attempt a round-the-world flight and she left Miami on June 1, 1937. After stopping in South America, Africa, the Indian subcontinent and south-east Asia, she arrived in New Guinea on June 29. She left on July 27, but while she was crossing the Pacific, contact was lost. The US government spent $4m looking for her, but she was never found.
b. her early life and education
Amelia Earhartwas born in Kansas, USA, in 1897 and moved to Chicago in 1914 when her father was fired from the Rock Island Railroad. After graduating from high school in 1915, she went to Canada where she trained as a nurse’s aide. In 1919 she attended Columbia University but gave up after a year to join her parents in California.
c. her early career
In 1920 Earhart went to her first air show and was hooked. She took flying lessons and bought her first plane, which she flew to a height of 14,000 feet in October 1922, a women’s world record. In 1925 she moved to Boston and got a job as a social worker. During that time, she also wrote local newspaper columns on flying.
d. publications, awards and prizes
Earhart published two books about her flying experiences: 20 Hours 40 Minutes and The Fun of It, but she went missing before her third book was published. She was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by Congress and the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honour by the French government.
e. her greatest achievement
Earhart will be principally remembered for being the first woman to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic. On May 20, 1932, she took off from New Brunswick. She wanted to fly to Paris, but poor weather conditions and mechanical problems forced her to land in Derry, Northern Ireland.
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