New-York
I- Anticipation.
1- Oral conversation
Which words or phrases do you think of when you hear the name «New-York »?
Mandala + propositions des élèves.
Lights
Big Apple Broadway World Trade Centre
Capital city NO
North
America New-York Skyscrapers
The statue of
Liberty
Ellis Island
American The Empire
city State
Building
The U.S.A.
2- Where is New-York located?
New-York
3- Carte des U.S.A
Que signifie U.S.A?
Présentation de New-York
Diaporama N°2 + chanson de Madonna.
Madonna
I Love New-York
Listen to the song and complete the blanks.
I don’t like _______________________
But I ___________________ New York
Other _________________make me feel like a dork
Los Angeles is for _________________ who _______________
_______________ and London
Baby you can keep
(chorus)
Other cities _______________ make me mad
Other places __________________ make me _________
No other city ever made me _______________ except New York
I ____________ New York (x3)
If you don’t like my ___________________
Then you can F off
Just go to _____________________
Isn’t that where they __________________
New York is not for ___________________ pussies who _____________
If you can’t stand the _____________________
Then get off my _____________________
(chorus)
Other cities ___________ make me mad
Other places __________________ make me _____________
No other cities ever made me ____________________ except New York
I ___________________ New York (x3)
I don’t like cities
But I like New York
Other places make me feel like a dork
Los Angeles is for people who sleep
Paris and London
Baby you can keep
(chorus)
Other cities always make me mad
Other places always make me sad
No other city ever made me glad except New York
I love New York (x3)
If you don’t like my attitude
Then you can F off
Just go to Texas
Isn’t that where they golf
New York is not for little pussies who scream
If you can’t stand the heat
Then get off my street
(chorus)
Other cities always make me mad
Other places always make me sad
No other cities ever made me glad except New York
I love New York (x3)
The main skyscrapers
Empire State Building One Penn Plaza 40 Wall Street World trump Tower Time Warner center
70 Pine Street
GE Building City Group Center NY General Motors Building
Chase Manhattan Chrysler Building Cityspire
Rockfeller Center
Heig
Height
ht Year Building
(m)
(ft)
1 417 1372 1973 World Trade Center (destroyed)
2 381 1253 1931 Empire State Building
3 317.7 1045 1030 Chrysler Building
4 290 954 1932 70 Pine Street
5 281.8 927 1930 40 Wall Street
6 278.2 915 1977 Citygroup Center New York
7 262.5 863 2001 Trump World Tower
8 258.4 850 1933 GE Building
9 248 818 1987 Cityspire
1O 247.2 813 1961 Chase Manhattan Plaza
18 228 750 1972 One Penn Plaza
19 228 750 2004 Time Warner Center
27 214.3 705 1968 General Motors building
She represents the United States and she welcomes all visitors and
immigrants. But the famous Statue of Liberty standing in New York harbour was
built in France.
It all started at dinner one night near Paris in 1865. A group of Frenchmen
were discussing their emperor and the democratic government for the U.S. They
decided to build a monument to American freedom—and perhaps even strengthen
French demands for democracy in their own country. At that dinner was the sculptor
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. He imagined a statue of a woman holding a torch burning
with the light of freedom. An internal iron structure was designed by Gustave Eiffel.
Turning Bartholdi’s idea into reality took 21 years. French supporters raised
money to build the statue, and Americans paid for the pedestal it would stand on.
The statue was presented to the U.S., taken apart, shipped across the Atlantic
Ocean in crates and rebuilt in the U.S. It was France’s gift to the American people.
Finally, in 1886, the statue was dedicated.
I- FAST READING
1- Look at the document and complete.
This document is composed of:
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2- Which paragraph corresponds to the following titles?
The aim (objective) is reached. § -------------
The statue: a symbol. § --------------------
How it began. § -------------------
A trip to the U.S.A. § ----------------------------
Money for the statue. § ------------------------------
II- VOCABULARY
1- Find, in the text, the synonyms for the following words or expressions.
- Port : …………………………………………………………….
- Next to: ………………………………………………………
- A building: …………………………………………………..
- Liberty: ……………………………………………………….
- Drawn: ………………………………………………………….
- Carried by boat: ………………………………………………………
- Present: ………………………………………………………………….
2- Transparent words
Find, in the text, the English equivalents for the French ones
below.
- représente :
- visiteurs :
- groupe :
- demande :
- imaginer :
- idée :
- pied d’estal :
- finalement :
III- COMPREHENSION
1- Which pronoun is used to talk about the statue? Why?
2- Pick out all the names of persons and places and say who
and what they correspond to.
3- Which events do these dates correspond to?
- 1865:
- 1886:
4- Right or wrong? Justify your answer by quoting from the
text.
a) No Europeans participated to the building of the statue.
b) The statue was the symbol of New York only.
c) The statue was the symbol of slavery.
d) France was, at the time, a democratic country.
e) Bartholdi was a painter.
f) Nobody wanted to pay for the statue.