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Pilar Santos Tambo A Tribute to New York And other times there may be words that you can’t understand at all. We will deal with this later. Meanwhile, don’t worry. You DO NOT HAVE TO understand everything. D. Find words in the text that mean the same as: a) united to: b) a squalid area of a city: c) looking for: d) produced: e) a place that attracts many visitors: f) continues to be: E. Write a summary of the text in your own words in about four or five sentences. Show it to your teacher and compare it with the summaries below. F. Re-read the article. Then read these three summaries. Which one is the best? Why are the other two not so good? 1. First sighted by Giovanni da Verrazano 500 years ago, New York belonged first to the Dutch and then to the English before it became independent. Nowadays the city has too many immigrants and therefore, it has lost the charm it used to have. 2. First sighted by Giovanni da Verrazano 500 years ago, New York is a multicultural –its nine million inhabitants speak 80 languages– city that hasn’t stopped growing and that is full of vitality. 3. First sighted by Giovanni da Verrazano 500 years ago and independent from Europe since 1783, New York has grown enormously in the last two centuries. Today it has a very varied population and is an important culture and business centre. G. Answer the following questions shortly: a) Name at least three factors that have influenced New York’s prosperity. b) Why did Manhattan have to grow upwards? H. Rewrite the following sentences without changing the original meaning: a) In the 19 th century great fortunes were made. Many people __________ b) The English lost the colony in 1783. (ago) __________ c) NY is a multicultural city because many immigrants moved there. NY wouldn’t be __________ I. Follow up. Write about 80-100 words on one of the following topics: 39
Pilar Santos Tambo A Tribute to New York a) What do you know about the history of your town? b) Now that we have already arrived in New York, write an informal postcard to your family or friends telling them about your impressions. When you are confronted with a writing task like this, which will be corrected and marked by your teacher, you need to share a common code for correction with him or her and the rest of your schoolmates. J. Match the left and the right columns. This activity and the following will help you establish a common code, whether it is the one proposed –to which you can add other features– or another. (a) VOC (1) problems with grammar (b) WO (2) problems with vocabulary (c) GR (3) problems with spelling (d) PR (4) problems with word order (e) (1) , (2) , etc. (5) problems with the use of prepositions (f) PT (6) problems with style (g) ST (7) problems with punctuation (h) SP (8) look below for an explanation / advice, etc. K. You get your composition back from your teacher and this is what it looks like. How should you correct it? Do this with your partner. There is a lot you can learn from each other. SP …living in a small town has adventages but also some disadventages. GR VOC One problem is that everybody know you. Other problem is that there WO GR aren’t so many facilities as in cities bigs. It is useful to keep a personal record of your most common mistakes: grammar, vocabulary, spelling, etc. 40
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