New York City

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New York City - worksheet
Read the article on New York City again and complete the worksheet.
GENERAL INFORMATION
basic facts:
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HISTORY
What happened in...?
1524
1609
1614
1626
1664
BOROUGHS
Label the map with the names of the boroughs.
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Put the words from the box into the correct group.
Broadway
Bronx Zoo
Brooklyn Bridge
Flushing
Meadows Park
Harlem
John, F. Kennedy
International Airport
Yankee Stadium
Pelham Park
Staten Island Ferry
Manhattan
The Bronx
Brooklyn
Heights
LaGuardia
Airport
The Empire
State Building
The Queens
Carnegie
Hall
Metropolitan
Opera
Times
Square
Brooklyn
Fifth Avenue
New York Botanical
Gardens
Wall Street
Staten Island
Broadway
Watch the video on history and sights of NYC. Take brief notes on these places:
Ellis Island
Wall Street
the World Trade Center
Mark the sentences true or false. Correct the false ones.
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In Manhattan there are avenues running from south to north and streets from east to west.
You can find the Empire State Building on Broadway.
New York Times are named after the square where they had their buildings.
The Bronx was inhabited by African-Americans before 1945.
The Bronx is home to rap and hip hop and to the New York Yankees.
Queens the most international of NYC’s boroughs.
The Super Bowl is played at Flushing Meadows Park.
Brooklyn Bridge is one of the world’s longest suspension bridges.
The Statue of Liberty is a copper statue given to the USA by France in 1886.
She has a tablet with 4th July 1776 in her right hand and a torch in her left hand.
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Zdroje:
SCHORZMAN Julius. Boroughs Labels New York City Map Julius Schorzman. [fotografie].
Wikipedia [online]. 2005 [cit. 2014-06-04]. Dostupné z:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5_Boroughs_Labels_New_York_City_Map_Julius_Schorzman.png.
Formát: 2,652 × 2,582
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