howard hughes was born in 1905, to a wealthy family in the texas oil industry.

by
the age of eleven, hughes had demonstrated genius in mach and mechanical
engineering - once building a motorcycle from parts taken from a steam engine. art
fourteen, he took his first flying lesson. these early experiments were the beginning
of his lifelong passions for aviation and engineering. as a teenager. hughes
declared that his goals in life were to be the worlds best golfers. its greatest pilot.
and its most famous movie producer. amazingly , during his lifetime he archived
two of these ambitions.

on his fathers death in 1924, the nineteen- years-old hughes inherited hughes tool
company, valued at a million dollars. Hughes used his wealch to become a
Hollywood fil producer. His films ineluded hells angeles, a fighter pilot epic that
hughes once stopped production for months to wait for a specific type of cloud to
appear in the sky. Once, when his pilots refused to attempt a particulary dangerous
stunt. Hughes flew it himself getting the shot but crashing the plane. When the
film was nearly complete, hughes decided that silent movie werw outdated and
reshot the film with sound. A box office success, hells angel cometed hughes
reputation for thinking big and never hesitating to go in new directions.

In 1932, hughes founded hughes aircraft, as a pilot and self taught engineer, he set
many world speed records and made significant advances in aviation technology.
His h-I racer was the fastest plane in the world and his h-4 hercules flying boat was
the largest plane ever built.

However, as hughes aged, he started to become more and more eccentric, before
eating peas, for example, he would sore them by size on his place. Fearful of
germs, he avoided shaking had deteriorated and he disappeared, living in hotel
rooms with blacked-out windows. Rumors circulated about his strange lifestyle-
that he used paper toweks to cover any object before he touched it. When hughes
died in 1976, he was so changet that fingerprints had to be used to identify his
body.

The article describes a creative personality.

1. Howard hughes was gifted in math and engineering

2. Hughes was passionate about one thing the oil industry
3. As a teenager, hughes did not have the self-condirence to become
successful.
4. As a movie producer, hughes was famous for being a big spender.
5. Pilots on the ser of the film hells angels described hughes as a sweetheart.
6. As a director, hughes was not very energetic and he tried not to get too
onvolved in the film he made.
 7. Hughes was an old-fashioned director who prefereed silent movies to
movies with sound.
8. Hughes was never self-critical; once he started something, he would never
change direction, even if he thought he had made a mistake.
9. Hughes was an imaginative man who was not afraid to try new things.
10. Hughes was a brain who taught himself how to design airplanes.
11. Later in life, hughes became known for his increasingly eccentric behavior.
12. A real people person, hughes had a smile and a handshake for everyone he
met.
13. Hughes remained energetic, piloting airplanes and directing films until his
death in 1976.
14. Hughes died when he was 75 years old.

-Howard hughes was gifted in math and engineering

-Howard Hughes fue dotado en matemticas e
ingeniera (F)
CORRECTO: Hughes haba demostrado su genio en la
maquinaria y la ingeniera mecnica

-Hughes was passionate about one thing the oil

industry
-Hughes estaba apasionado por la industria petrolera
(F)
CORRECTO: HUGHES soaba con ser el mejor golfista
del mundo, el mejor piloto y un productor de cine.

-As a teenager, hughes did not have the self-

condirence to become successful.
-Como un adolescente, Hughes no tena la confianza en
s mismo para tener xito.
(F)

-As a movie producer, hughes was famous for being a

big spender.
-Como un productor de pelculaS, hughes era famoso
por ser un gran inversionista.
(V)
-Pilots on the seT of the film hells angels described
hughes as a sweetheart.
-Los pilotos en el seT de la pelcula los ngeles de los
infiernos describieron hughes como una persona
adorable. (F)
CORRECTO: Lo describieron como una persona que
piensa en grande y nunca vacilante para ir en nuevas
direcciones.

-As a director, hughes was not very energetic and he

tried not to get too onvolved in the film he made
-Como director, Hughes no era muy enrgico y trat de
no meterse demasiado en la pelcula que hizo.
(F)
CORRECTO: El siempre estuvo totalmente involucrado
con la produccin de sus pelculas, inclusive Una vez,
cuando sus pilotos se negaron a intentar un truco
particularmente peligroso para la grabacin, Hughes
vol l mismo.

-Hughes was an old-fashioned director who prefereed

silent movies to movies with sound.
-Hughes era un director pasado de moda que prefera
pelculas mudas a pelculas con sonido.
(F)
CORRECTO: El era innovador. Hughes decidi que la
pelcula muda estaba obsoleta y volvi a grabar la
pelcula con sonido.

-Hughes was never self-critical; once he started

something, he would never change direction, even if he
thought he had made a mistake
-Hughes nunca fue autocrtico; Una vez que empez
algo, nunca cambiara de direccin, aunque pensara
que haba cometido un error. (F)

-Hughes was an imaginative man who was not afraid to

try new things.
-Hughes era un hombre imaginativo que no tema
probar cosas nuevas. (V)

-Hughes was a brain who taught himself how to design

airplanes.
-Hughes era un cerebro que se ense a disear
aviones. (V)

-Later in life, hughes became known for his

increasingly eccentric behavior.
-Ms tarde en la vida, hughes se hizo conocido por su
comportamiento cada vez ms excntrico.
(V)

-A real people person, hughes had a smile and a

handshake for everyone he met.
-Una persona de personas reales, Hughes tena una
sonrisa y un apretn de manos para todos los que
conoci. (F)

-Hughes remained energetic, piloting airplanes and

directing films until his death in 1976.
-Hughes se mantuvo enrgico, pilotando aviones y
dirigiendo pelculas hasta su muerte en 1976
(F)
CORRECTO: Temeroso de grmenes y bacterias,
desapareci, viviendo en habitaciones de hotel con
ventanas oscuras. Los rumores circulaban sobre su
extrao estilo de vida, que us papel para cubrir
cualquier objeto antes de tocarlo.

-Hughes died when he was 75 years old.

Hughes muri cuando tena 75 aos.

(F)
CORRECTO: HUGHES muri a los 71 aos de edad