NEW YORK CITY

New York City is the biggest city in the USA. About 8,5 million people live in New York City. The city is on the east coast.

Some people think that New York City is the capital of the USA, but it is not. Washington DC is the capital.

Many tourists visit New York every year. There are many things to see and do in New York.

On this photo you can see the Statue of Liberty. People can visit the statue. If you visit it, you can go up and look at New York. This statue is a symbol of freedom and democracy.

There are many tall buildings in New York. The tallest scyscraper is 541 meters tall. More than 100 buildings in New York are 180 meters tall or more.

This building is very famous. It is the Empire State Building. It is in Manhattan. Manhattan is a part of New York. The Empire State Building is from 1931. It was the tallest building in the world until 1972. There are 6500 windows in the buildings. If you walk to the top, you have to walk 1860 steps! But

there are 79 elevators in the building, so you don’t have to walk. Many tourists visit the Empire State building.

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1. How many people live in New York City?

2. Is New York City the biggest city in the USA?

3. Is New York City the capital of the USA?

4. What is this? What is it a symbol of?

5. What is a skyscraper?

6. How tall is the tallest building in New York?

7. Can you tell about Empire State Building?

This is Central Park. It is a big and famous park in Manhattan. It is a nice place to visit. It is nice to relax in the park. People can sit in the park or they can talk a walk. Many people also go jogging in the park.

In winter people can go skating in the park.

Times Square is a very busy place. It is full of people and full of lights.

If you like art, there are many art museums in New York.

There are also other museums.

If you like music and theatre, you can go to a musical or a concert.

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1. What is Central Park?

2. What can people do in Central Park?

3. Would you like to go to Times Square? WHy/why not?

4. Would you like to listen to music in New York?

Why do you love New york city?

Steve is 23 years old. He loves New York. He says:

I love New York city because there are so many things to do. THere are so many things to see. The city is full of life.

There are so many different people. There are people from all over the world. You can be yourself.

And it is easy to get around. It is easy to take the subway all around the city.

I also loce the parks in New York. I often visit a park together with my friends. Sometimes we bring food. We eat and talk and relax.

But it is very expensive to live in New York. It is very, very expensive to rent an apartment.

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1. Why does Steve love New York?

9/11.

The 11th of September 2001 was a terrible day in New York and in the USA.

At 8.46 a plane chrashed into the World Trade Center, North tower. At 9.03 another plane crashed into the South tower. About one hour later the buildings collapsed. Three more planes chashed in other places in the USA. More than 3000 people were killed.

Why did this happen? Who did it?

It was a terrorist attack. The terrorist group Al Qaeda did it. This group says that the USA do many wrong things. Al Qaeda say they are at war with the USA.

Today you can visit the museum at Ground Zero, the place where the twin towers were. You can learn about 9/11 (nine eleven). You can see the names of all the people that were killed. You can learn what happened.

ELLIS ISLAND.

From 1800 to 1920 very many people

moved to the USA. They were

immigrants. An immigrant is a person

who moves into a country. Many

people came to the USA from Europe.

People came from different

countries, for example Poland, Italy, Ireland, Sweden and Norway. More than

800.000 Norwegians left Norway and moved to the USA. Many people moved

to the USA because they were poor. They hoped to get a job in the USA, they

hoped to get a better life.

Here you see Ellis Island outside New

York City. Very many immigrants, more

than 12 million, came to Ellis Island from

between 1890 and 1950. There was a

big immigrant office at Ellis Island. The

immigrants had to answer many questions, for example: Do you have enough

money to live in the USA? There were also doctors who

examined the immigrants. If they were sick, they had to go

back.

Some immigrants had to go back, and some were allowed to

stay in the United States.

Some immigrants stayed in New York. Some immigrants

moved to other places. Some people got land and built a

farm.

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1. What happened the eleventh of September 2001 in New York?

2. Did some planes crash at other places?

3. How many people were kille on 9/11?

4. Who crashed the planes?

5. Why?

6. What is Ground Zero?

7. What can you visit there today?

8. Where is Ellis Island?

9. Why did immigrants have to stop there?

10. Why did so many people go to the USA?

11. Where did the immigrants come from?

12. Were all the immigrants allowed to stay?

13. Did all the immigrants stay in New York?