Write T for true and F for false sentences. Correct the false statements.

What are the five boroughs of New York? Where is the Statue of Liberty situated?

Write numbers on the lines:

_______ Queens

________ Liberty Island

________ Bronx

________ Manhattan

________ Brooklyn

________ Richmond

Put the sentences in chronological order. Write the numbers on the lines:

_____ Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island from Indians.

_____ The place was first seen by Italian navigator.

_____ The colony was captured by Duke of York

_____ The Dutch set up their first settlement named New Amsterdam.

_____ Captain Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River and Manhattan Island.

Write T for true and F for false sentences. Correct the false statements.

1. _____ Manhattan is crossed from North to South by avenues and from East to West by streets.

2. _____ The avenues are numbered and streets bear names.

3. _____ Many avenues and streets have become synonyms for wealth or certain occupations.

4. _____ Wall Street is the symbol of financial life of the USA.

5. _____ The Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue are the slum areas of New York.

6. _____ The Seventh Avenue symbolises women’s fashion.

7. _____ Madison Avenue is the street on which there are lots of theatres.

8. _____ Broadway is an exception of all the streets and avenues.

9. _____ Broadway is sometimes called “The Great White Way.”

10. _____ The word Broadway has come to mean advertising business and public relation firms.

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Answer the questions:

1. Why is Downtown Manhattan called the business centre of New York?

2. Why are there no factories or other enterprises on Manhattan Island?

3. What is situated on Manhattan as a financial headquarters?

4. Why was Wall Street called so?

5. What does the City Hall house?

6. What Universities are situated on Manhattan Island?

7. What is Greenwich Village famous for?

8. What is the highest building in New York? Has it always been so?

9. What area do the United Nations Headquarters occupy?

10. How often are the regular sessions held?

11. Why do they call Rockefeller centre the city within a city?

12. Where do the nation’s most popular movies have their first showing?

13. What is the largest indoor stadium on Manhattan?

14. What musicians usually have concerts in Carnegie Hall?

15. What is the geographical centre of New York and where is it situated?

16. What is the most famous theatre of Lincoln centre?

17. What art museums of New York do you know?

18. Are there only luxurious regions on Manhattan?

19. What are the slum areas in this part of the city?

20. What square on Broadway is the tourists’ centre of the city?

21. What are the lungs of the city?

22. What places in the Central Park would you like to visit?

Finish the sentences:

1. The bronze Statue of Liberty is…………………………………………………………...

2. It is presented to the USA by……………………………………………………………..

3.Its top reaches ……………………………………………………………………………..

4. It is the work of a well-known 19^th century French ………………………………………

5. The statue is made from copper …………………………………………………………..

6. ……………………….were used for its construction.

7. You can go up in the lift and enjoy the view of the city standing at……………………...

8. If you want to go higher you can use ……………………………………………………..

9. The figure shows the young woman freeing herself………………………………………

11. She holds ……………….. in her right hand and ……………………………………….

in her left hand.

12. The Statue of Liberty was built on funds………………………………………………..

and symbolises …………………………………………………………………………

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