Reviewing

IN PAIRS, TRY TO GIVE AN ANSWER TO THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CLASS READER (20 marks)

1.  Can you name three important landmarks in New York?
2.    Do you remember any important person from Chicago?
3.    Can you name important writers from San Francisco?
4.    What is the nickname of San Francisco? And Chicago?
5.    Who were the first settlers in the USA?
6.    Where can you go for free to the beach?
7.    Can you explain the meaning of these expressions? (1,5 each)

• The roaring twenties
• Melting pot
• The Haight
• The Gold Rush
• The Big Easy
• Creole
• The Louisiana Purchase

8.    Can you place the following places in this map? (0’5 each)

New York                          

Chicago

New Orleans                    

Lake Michigan

San Francisco                   

Mississippi River

Los Angeles

Assignments

Hi,

I wanted to remind you of the activities to work on these days:

American Cities Reader:

• p 97, exercise 1
• Read Chapter 8 on New Orleans
• p 105, exercise 1
• p 106-7, exercises 2 and 3
• p 108-110, exercises 1, 2, 5

My Grammar Lab:

• p 56: Unit 19, -ed/-ing adjectives
• p 62-3: Unit 22, Comparative structures
• p 146-147: Unit 49, Rules

KEY to erxercises on pages 90-1 from American Cities:

Chapters 7 and 8

Hi,

You can listen to Chapter 7 on Los Angeles and Chapter 8 on New Orleans.
It might be a good idea to shadow read (read and listen at the same time).

Have a good day!

Reviewing chapters 1, 2 and 3

Hi,

If you would like to review some aspects of American Cities book, you can play the kahoot game again:

American Cities Kahoot

The loop

Chicago's "Loop" is the city's official downtown area. The second largest downtown business district in the United States. The Loop is known for its famous skyscrapers and historic buildings; it has been the site of architectural creativity and experimentation for years.

Chicago's Legacy of Architecture

From its skyscrapers to its bridges, amazing feats of engineering have made the  skyline of Chicago immediately identifiable and completely unforgettable. Watch and listen to CNN's Richard Quest on the legacy of architecture in the Windy City in this CNN segment of "Future Cities". 

      

VOCABULARY

- Stunning: extremely beautiful or attractive: 

- Becknoning a future: if something beckons to you, it is very attractive and you feel you have to do something to get it. A bright future beckoned.

- Backbone:  the determination and strong personality that you need in order to do what is right or deal with a difficult situation. They wouldn’t have the backbone to disagree with him.

- Groundbreaking: using new methods, or achieving new results. A groundbreaking study of plant diversity.

- Stare: to look directly at someone or something for a long time. Don’t stare at people.

- The talk of the town: idle gossip or rumor; "there has been talk about you lately".

- Blank canvas: the term "blank canvas" can refer to a number of different things, both literal and metaphorical. However, all meanings have in common the idea of an empty starting point

- Accomplish to do or finish something successfully; achieve something. 

- Set the tone: if something someone says or does sets the tone for an event or activity, it establishes the way that event or activity will continue, especially the mood of the people involved (often + for ) He was furious when she arrived late, and that set the tone for the whole evening.

- At full throttle: as fast as possible. When the horse reached the back stretch he was at full throttle. 

 - Set the stage: Fig. to prepare something for some activity. The initial meeting set the stage for further negotiations. 

Manhattan

These are the districts mentioned on Chapter 3 of American Cities. Can you locate them on this map?

Chapter one and two

How is your reading going? Are you enjoying it? After reading chapter one and two from American Cities, can you answer these questions?

1. What does this painting represent?

2. What are these called?

3. Can you change these verbs into nouns?:

-  grow >

-  settle >

-  hunt >

4. Who were Lewis and Clark?

5. What are "tenements"?

6. What does Ellis Island represent in America?

7. What happened in 1929?

American Cities presentation schedule

American Cities presentation schedule

Hi,

This is the list of topics to present in January and February. You may want to start doing some research.

LA and Hollywood

You can watch Loreto's presentation on LA and Hollywood again. Well done!

LA and Hollywood

Hi,

 

Elena presented LA and Hollywood. Would you like to visit it some day?

 

New Orleans

Hi,

These are you classmates' presentations in class. Aren't they wonderful?
Angel's:

 

and Manuel's:

Elvis Presley

Who doesn't know Elvis Presley? By Paz

Pete Seeger

Hi,
This is Marcos' presentation on Pete Seeger:

Gold rush

Dear NI1 groups, 

This is a video from American Hisotry Channel. It is related to chapter number 4 from American Cities. Try to answer these questions:

• How was success considered differently in California from New England in the East?
• What were the consequences of gold rush?

 

Lure: attract

Scramble: (with for) to rush, or struggle with others, to get. The boys scrambled for the ball.

Impoverish: to make poor. The long war severely impoverished the country.

 

Breakthrough: a sudden solution of a problem leading to further advances, especially in science. 

The discovery of the structure of DNA was a major scientific breakthrough.

American Cities Listening

Hi,

This is a nice listening from Elllo.org about different American Cities. Listen to it and answer the online questions:

http://www.elllo.org/english/Points/PT06-Cities.html

Golden Gate Park

Veronica's smashing presentation on Golden Gate Park. Wouldn't you like to visit it?

Ferlinghetti

This is Esther's presentation on the American poet, painter, and liberal activist Ferlinghetti.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Meet the free thinker Lawrence Ferlinghetti! This is Esther's presentation.