new york city

New York CityThe Big Apple

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• The city that is so nice they named it twice

• Once it was called New Amsterdam

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• A city with almost 10,000,000 people

• Five boroughs: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island

• Three rivers: Hudson, East and Harlem

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• A famous New York sight is the Statue of Liberty

• It was given to Americans by French people in 1886

• Here is a photo of the statue when it was being built, in Paris

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• It is 46m tall but with the pedestal it is 95m

• You can climb to the top and see the view

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• Another famous landmark is the Empire State Building

• It is right now the tallest building in New York City

• It has 102 floors

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• Once a B-52 airplane hit it, but it still stood

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• In the middle of the City there is a huge park, Central Park

• There are lakes, a zoo, two ice-skating rinks and many walking tracks.

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• In New York City you can also see the famous Brooklyn Bridge

• Or you can just enjoy its busy streets

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• You can go to a basketball game and see the New York Knicks

• Or you can go to a baseball game of the New York Yankees

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• This city is also the home of some great jazz musicians

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• And many great films have been filmed here like King Kong and Spiderman

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• A presentation by Anna Varna, a teacher of English in Greece

• annavarna@gmail.com

• This is a short presentation I made for my 6th grade students, based on information on Funway 3, their English coursebook.