Unit 3: vocabulary

• Engels
• Secundair onderwijs

Unit 3: vocabulary

Fill in: Manhattan has always had the problem of c..., which has pushed it to increase its c... for housing and business.

Fill in: New York ... prices are shooting through the roof. The average New York home value is now 766,160 dollars.

Fill in: Because of the great F... in the 1840s, the population of Ireland faced s... .

Give the opposite: tolerance

Fill in: Donald Trump is threatening to ... immigrants who enter the country illegally.

Fill in: A lot of Palestinians are now s... asylum in Europe.

Fill in: According to the annual Mayor's Management Report 19.1 % of New Yorkers live on w...

Fill in: Over the last few years, housing, transport and entertainment have been absorbed into the growing ... ...

Fill in: The factory lost r... because of the strike by the workers.

Fill in: The Yen is the ... of Japan.

Fill in: The Dutch were always looking to ... ... ...

Give a synonym: a district, a neighbourhood: a ...

Fill in: Neither London nor Paris cannot compare to the b... energy of Midtown New York.

Fill in: Due to ... ... (tekort aan arbeidskrachten) a lot of Europeans f... to the New World in the 19th century.

Fill in: With immigrants coming from different parts of the world, New York has always been a ... ... of cultures and religions.

Which noun is derived from 'hostile': ...

Which adjective can be derived from 'profit': ...

Give a synonym for: agricultural

Fill in: A (petrarchan sonnet) consists of an ... and a ... .

Who is the 'New Colossus'

1. the Brooklyn Bridge
2. the twin cities Manhattan and Brooklyn
3. the Statue of Liberty
4. a statue on the island of Rhodes.