WE BUILT NEW YORK [BOTH VERSIONS]

Warm Up Questions

1. Have you ever been to the USA?
2. What do you think the population of New York is in 2022?
3. Where is your favourite city?
4. What is New York’s nickname?
5. If you have been to New York, what would you recommend doing there?
6. If you haven’t been to New York, what would you like to see there?
7. Can you name any famous buildings, monuments or areas in New York?
8. How many centimeters are there in a foot?
9. What is larger, a yard or a metre?
10. Do you think the USA will ever convert to the metric system?
    

Vocabulary Task: Match the words on the left with the correct
synonym on the right
1 Audacious A Reduced (dramatically)
2 Trespass B Wetland
3 Template C Giant
4 Immense D Brave
5 Slashed E Original design
6 Swamp F Intrude on private land

Listening Tasks
Early Days – The Dutch and British

1. When and why did the Dutch settle in Manhattan?
2. What did the Dutch call the small trading post on Manhattan?
3. How did Wall Street get its name?
4. Who did the British name “New York” after?
5. What lies beneath the South Street Sea Port museum?
   Independence and the Grid System
6. When and where was George Washington made President?
7. What was John Randall Junior’s task?
8. How long did this task take?
9. Why was he arrested?
10. What was built to link Manhattan to the west?
    Central Park
11. How big is Central Park?
12. How was the design of the park decided?
13. How many men worked on landscaping Central Park?
14. How was the east side of the park connected to the west side?
15. Are the waterfalls in the park real?
    Brooklyn Bridge
16. When was the Brooklyn Bridge opened?
17. How long is its central span?
18. How high are the towers?
19. What did the “sand-hogs” do?
20. How did the engineers prevent the river water from entering the foundations?
21. What were the dangers of working in this kind of environment?
22. How many workers were thought to have died while building the bridge?