New York City Guide

Laboratory Work №2

New York

Part I

New York City's Statue of Liberty

Proper names:

I. A recognizable icon repression узнаваемая иконная репрессия

a decade декада, десяток лет

a glimpse беглый взгляд

to commemorate почтить, поминать

ocean voyage путешествие по океану

centennial вековой, столетний

ferry переправа

II. Watch the video and answer the questions:

1. The Statue of Liberty represents liberty.

2. It was dedicated in 1886.

3. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel designed it.

4. The statue costs 250.000 $

5. The statue is located on liberty Island, Lower Manhattan

6. It is a figure standing upright dressed in a robe

7. The tablet in the right hand commemorate july 4.1776 the memorable day of the American Declaration of Independence.

8. 151 feet is the size of the statue.

9. 9.000.000 people live in New York

Part II

Only in New York City

Proper names:

Top of the Rock, Rockefeller Centre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

III. Listen to the podcast and answer the questions:

1. Top of the Rock is the part of the Rockeffeller complex. There you can see beautiful views of New York.

2. The construction of Rockefeller Centre began in 1929 and it was fully occupied in 1943.

3. Top of the Rock situated on the 88^th floor?

4. Music Hall is another famous building in the Rockefeller complex

5. The Rockefeller Centre is 80 feet in the air

6. The colloquial name of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is Met

7. The Museum was founded in 1800.

8. It is extremally large museum.

9. The Museum collection spans 5000 years of world culture and it has 17 departments representing different cultures.

10. The Metropolitan Art Museum seems to be unusual for an art museum It has collections on the open air that helps you to see the true temper of different cultures. Also there is a great amount of musical instruments.

Part III

New York City Guide

Proper names:

IV. Listen to the podcast and answer the questions:

1. The nickname of New York City is Big apple

2. There are 5 areas in New York: Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island.

3. Manhattan is the most populous area.

4. Subway, buses and taxies are the most populous means of transportation used in New York City.

5. there are 20 streets and 11(or in some cases 13) avenues in New York

6. The Statue of Liberty is 51 feet tall and it was given to America in 1886 as recognition of friendship made to join the American revolution.

7. In the Met you can see Asian art, American painting, Modern art collections

8. The American Museum of Natural History Shows The exhibitions from dinosaurs to astrology, to ocean science, it also has a planetarium.

9. In New York you should also visite The Time square, the Rockefeller complex, the New York Library, the Great Central Station, Museum of Modern Art

10. The speaker’s favourite neighbourhood is the Granad Village as there is a great amount of restaurants and you can have fun at night.

11. Low Manhattan in New York financial district one of the most visited areas nowadays

12. Tere are diffrent kinds of restaurants in New York from hot dog stands to luxury restaurants.

13. Red corner is particularly good for breakfasts

14. Scardigan deli and Scatsas deli are two the most famous delis.The pizzeria in Long Bleeker street is speaker’s favourite one.

15. Slane and Deeker, Booner Cane are types of bars that we can find in New York.

16. Broadway is famous for it’s Theatres.

17. The Brooklyn Bridge offers you beautiful views.

18. Strawberry Fields was inspired by Lennon's memories of playing in the garden of a Salvation Army house named "Strawberry Field" near his childhood home.

19. You can see the Sheep’s meadow in Central Park.

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