quarta-feira, 5 de setembro de 2018

Juliane Diller






Juliane Diller



               Juliane Diller (born 1954 in Lima as Juliane Margaret Köpcke) is best known for being the sole survivor of 93 passengers and crew in the December 24, 1971, crash of  (a LANSA Lockheed Electra OBLANSA Flight 508-R-941 commercial airliner) in the Peruvian rainforest.

Airplane crash

               Juliane Köpcke was a German high school senior studying in Lima, intending to become a zoologist, like her parents. She and her mother, famed ornithologist Maria Köpcke, were traveling to meet with her father, biologist Hans-Wilhelm Köpcke, who was working in Pucallpa.
The airplane was struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm and exploded in mid-air, disintegrating 3.2 km up. Köpcke, who was 17 years old at the time, fell to earth still strapped into her seat. She survived the fall with only a broken collarbone, a gash to her right arm and her right eye swollen shut.
Her first priority was to find her mother, who had been seated next to her on the plane but her search was unsuccessful. She later found out her mother had died in the crash.
Köpcke was soon able to locate a small stream. She then waded through knee-high water downstream from her landing site, relying on the survival principle her father had taught her that tracking downstream should eventually lead to civilization. The stream also provided clean water and a natural path through the dense rainforest vegetation. After 9 days, she found a canoe and a nearby shelter, where she waited. Hours later, the lumbermen who resided in the shelter arrived and tended to her injuries & bug infestations. The next morning they took her via a 7-hour canoe ride down the river to a lumber station in Tournavista, from where she was airlifted with the help of a local pilot to her father and a hospital in Pucallpa.

 Subsequent events

                Her experience is the subject of two films, the first being the 1974 Giuseppe Maria Scotese film Miracoli accadono ancora, I (Miracles Still Happen), and the most recent being the 2000 Werner Herzog film Wings of Hope. Herzog was inspired to make the film as he narrowly avoided taking the very same flight while he was location scouting for Aguirre, Wrath of God. His reservation was canceled due to a last minute change in itinerary.
              Köpcke returned to Germany, where she fully recovered from her injuries and continued her studies, eventually earning a PhD degree in zoology, like her parents, in 1987. Now known as Dr. Juliane Diller, she specializes in mammalogy, studying bats in Munich, Germany, and working at the Munich Zoological Center, where she is a librarian. Juliane Koepcke's memoir Als ich vom Himmel fiel [When I Fell From the Sky] was published on March 10, 2011 by the German publisher Piper Malik.

              TEXT COMPREHENSION


01- Juliane Diller lives in______________.
a) Munich
b) Hamburg
c) Lima
d) Pucallpa
e) Cusco

02- Juliane's _________helped her survive immediately after the fall.
a) friends
b) knowledge
c) seat
d) mom
e) dad

03- On the airplane, there were ___________
passengers.
a) ninety one
b) ninety two
c) ninety three
d) ninety four
e) ninety five

04- The airplane crash happened in the ________________century.
a) seventeenth
b) eighteenth
c) nineteenth
d) twentieth
e) twenty first

05- Check the correct alternative according to the text:
a) Aguirre, Wrath of God is a film about the flight 508
b) The air crash happened 39 years ago
c) Juliane was rescued after seven days
d) Juliane's dad was a victim of flight 508 too
e) The air crash happened on Christmas Eve

The McDonalds


 TEXT  THE MCDONALDS

Richard J. McDonald (February 16, 1909 – July 14, 1998) and Maurice “Mac” McDonald (November 26, 1902 – December 11, 1971) were two early American fast food pioneers, originally from Manchester, New Hampshire, who established the first McDonald’s restaurant in 1940.
      The McDonald family were of Irish origin. Dick and Mac McDonald were born in the USA but their parents Patrick J. McDonald and Margarete were Irish.
      The brothers’ first food venture was a hot-dog stand in Monrovia, California called the Airdrome, opened in 1937. Using the profits generated, they closed it and opened their first restaurant, a barbecue drive-in in San Bernardino, California, on May 15, 1940.
      In 1954 a milkshake machine salesman, Ray Kroc, became inspired by the evident financial success of the brothers’ concept, immediately grasping the restaurant’s enormous potential. He partnered with the brothers, and within a few years turned their small restaurant into a huge franchise that would later become the McDonald’s Corporation. Dick and Mac McDonald sold him the full rights of McDonald’s. The brothers received $2.7 million for the chain. Although Kroc turned McDonald’s into a global giant, its guiding principles remained largely unchanged from those the McDonald brothers had devised in 1948.
      Mac McDonald died of cancer in 1971. Richard McDonald died in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1998, at  the age of 89. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, a stepson, Gale French and two grandchildren.
      Ray Kroc was born to parents of Czech origin in Chicago, Illinois in 1902. Kroc died of a heart ailment  in San Diego, California, on January 14, 1984. Kroc was survived by his third wife, Joan B. Kroc. He had been married twice before. To Ethel Fleming (in 1922) and Jane Dobbins Green (1963) who had been John Wayne’s secretary.

        01-Complete in English:
         Dorothy McDonald was Mac McDonald's _____.
        A(  ) sister   B(  ) sister-in-law    C(  ) niece
        D(  ) cousin    E(  ) daughter

02-Ray Kroc had been married _____________________.
A(  )twice    B(  )thrice    C(  )four times
D(  )five times    E(  )six times

03-Gale French is Dick McDonald’s ___________________.
                A(  )son    B(  )stepson   C(  )nephew    D(  )brother   E(  )uncle

04-Ray Kroc was born in____________________.
A(  )San Diego    B(  )Monrovia      C(  )San Bernadino     D(  )Chicago   E(  )Manchester


05-Dick and Mac McDonald were__________________.
A(  )just friends    B(  )brothers-in-law
C(  )nephews    D(  )cousins    E(  )siblings