New York City

                             Here is the correction of the worksheet for the 

NEW YORK CITY documentary:

Describe

New York

in one…word………………

the words you hear:  amazing, exciting, awful, fun, dangerous, fabulous, crazy, lovely,                                                       the best

New Yorkers have a reputation for speaking loudly and being self-assured.

How many boroughs are there?.........5.............

There are over ……7…… million residents.

Link the boroughs with their description:

Queens

   =         the biggest                                                                           

Bronx

  =              the northernmost    

Brooklyn

  =       the most heavily populated                                    

Staten Island

  =  more rural                            

Manhattan

   =     means NY to the rest of the world

MANHATTAN

A small island which is …13…….miles long and …2……miles wide.

It is the centre of art, finance, business, media, architecture, fashion, design and culinary arts.

Dates:

1609     Henry Hudson arrived.

1624      first settlers.       What was

New York

first called? 

New Amsterdam

1789      George Washington took his first oath as President.

IMMIGRANTS

After processing at Ellis Island they entered

New York

society.

They came for hope, or to escape persecution, they traded old problems for new ones.

The Statue of Liberty was a welcome symbol of freedom.

It was a gift from the people of

France

Bartoldi called it “ a mighty woman with a torch lighting the way to freedom.”

On October 28^th 1886 the Statue was dedicated and 100 years later it was restored and rededicated.

THE PORT

Second only in the world to

Rotterdam

in the

Netherlands

.

On average every 28 minutes an ocean-going vessel enters or leaves the port with cargo or passengers or both.

THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

Includes almost 12000 taxis,

1000 miles

of bus routes and more than

200 miles

of subway lines.   

AS A COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL CENTRE

New York

is second to none.

What is the street (the) most associated with finance? Wall Street

What is the English for “la bourse”? The Stock Exchange

What do they sell in the garment district? clothes / fashion.

What do they sell on

47^th street

? diamonds / jewellery.

What is the name of the world’s biggest store? Macy’s

        Inside it you can find a post office, a flower market, a pet shop, a butcher, a baker, a pharmacy, 3 beauty salons, five restaurants and it has its own police force.

Comments

[oufrani]

Merci pour le questionnaire sur N Y et les réponses, Karen. Mais je ne sais pas sur quel document tu as travaillé: oral? écrit? texte de manuel?
Merci pour la réponse.
Amicalement
Hélène

[oufrani]

Peux tu me faire parvenir le document avec lequel tu as travaillé sur " New York" s'il te plait? Merci d'avance. Hélène