V1 Unit 3 - Lesson 1 - Crossing borders

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

New York

You know more about New York

You know more about Thanksgiving

You improve your reading skills

What do you know
about New York?

What's the name of the building you just saw?

1. World Trade Center
2. Woolworth Building
3. Empire State Building
4. Macy's Department Store

What is the name of this statue?

Which country gave the Statue of Liberty as a gift to the United States?

1. Germany
2. The Netherlands
3. France
4. The United Kingdom

New York City

• New York City is the biggest city of the United States of America, as well as the most densely populated.
• Nicknamed "The big apple" but also reffered to as "the city that never sleeps"
• 8 million+ citizens

Watch the video, make notes, and answer the questions after watching it.

Thanksgiving

• It is a national holiday in Canada and the United States.
• It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
• It was originally a day of giving thanks for the harvest (=oogst) and thanks to God.
• Nowadays it means meeting family and friends and eating turkey (=kalkoen) and ...
• watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV.

Assignment

1) watch the video

2) make notes!

3) answer the 8 Quiz Questions

Where did the first generation immigrants live?

1. Boston
2. Chicago
3. New York City
4. in all three of these cities

Where did many immigrants work in the 1920s?

1. in the countryside, at farms
2. in the city in factories
3. in coal mines throughout the country
4. in Macy's Department Store

How many people watched the first parade in 1924?

1. 2,500
2. 25,000
3. 250,000
4. 2,500,000

What was introduced in 1927?

1. large balloons in the shape of cartoon characters
2. Santa Claus joined the Parade
3. Snoopy joined the Parade
4. video doesn't say

If you were so lucky to find a balloon (a week after the Parade) what did you receive when you sent back the address label to Macy's?

1. a large balloon
2. a gift
3. free shopping at Macy's for 1 minute
4. video doesn't say

There was no Parade in...

1. 1942-1944
2. 1940-1945
3. 1914-1918
4. 1939-1945

How many people watched The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2016

1. over 44,000
2. over 440,000
3. over 4,4 million
4. over 44 million

Reading

Open your book

Unit 3

Lesson 1

Page 96

Questions exercise 2 (page 97)

1) What is Macy's?

2) What does 'from coast to coast'in the article mean?

3) Write down three types of attractions in the parade.

4) Why is Santa's float so popular?

Homework

STUDY: Lesson 2, page 128, adventurous-well-known (E-D) and auto-wachten (both D-E and E-D)

WATCH: video about comparisons

DO: exercises on that website

Any questions?