Actividad: Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart

1. 
Read the following textbook article. Pay special attention to the past-tense forms of be


At the beginning of the twentieth century, flight was new. It was not for everyone. It was only for the brave and adventurous. Two adventurers were Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart.
Charles Lindbergh loved to fly. He was born in 1902, one year before the Wright brothers’ historic flight. In 1927, a man offered a $25,000 reward for the first person to fly from New York to Paris nonstop. Lindbergh was a pilot for the United States Mail Service at that time. He wanted to win the prize.
He became famous because he was the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. His plane was in the air for 33 hours. The distance of the flight was 3,600 miles. There were thousands of people in New York to welcome him home. He was an American hero. He was only 25 years old.
Another famous American aviator was Amelia Earhart. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. She was 34 years old. Americans were in love with Earhart. In 1937, however, she was on a flight around the world when her plane disappeared somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
No one really knows what happened to Earhart

2. 
Fill in the blanks with was or were.

  1. Lindbergh and Earhart very famous.
  2. The Wright brothers the inventors of the airplane.
  3. The first airplane in the air for 12 seconds.
  4. Lindbergh and Earhart aviators.
  5. There thousands of people in New York to welcome Lindbergh home.
  6. Earhart the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
  7. I interested in the story about Earhart and Lindbergh.
  8.   you surprised that a woman was a famous aviator?
  9. Lindbergh   in Paris.
  10. We   happy to read about flight.
  11. There   a celebration of 100 years of flight in 2003.
  12. There   thousands of people at the celebration.

3. 
Fill in the blanks with the correct past-tense form of be. Add any other necessary words (no contractions)

A: I tried to call you last weekend. I worried about you.
B: I (not) home. I out of town.
A: Where it ?
B: In Washington, D.C.
A: (you) alone?
B: No, I . I was with my brother.
A: (it) expensive?
B: No. Our trip wasn’t expensive at all. 
A: Really? Why (it) expensive?
B: The flight from here to Washington cheap. And we stayed with some friends in their apartment.
They very helpful. They showed us a lot of beautiful places in Washington. But my favorite place was the Air and Space Museum.
A: a lot of people at the museum?
B: Yes, there were. It very crowded. But it wonderful to see the Wright brothers’ airplane and the airplane that Lindbergh used when he crossed the Atlantic. Also it interesting to see the spacecraft of the astronauts. We (not) bored for one minute in that museum. 
A: How long your flight to Washington?
B: It only 2 hours and 15 minutes from here. We don’t think about flying as anything special anymore. But just a little over 100 years ago, flight just a dream of two brothers. Can you believe it? There only 66 years between the first flight in 1903 and the trip to the moon in 1969!
A: That’s amazing!