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Teacher’s NotesAims: To practise listening and talking about history and past events.Language: Vocabulary connected with history and dates; the past simple: talking about past events.Preparation: Make one copy of the Student’s worksheet (pages 1 and 2) for each student in your class. Bring dictionaries and lists of irregular verbs to class.For the extension activity print out the quiz attached to the Teacher’s Notes.

Procedure:

Teacher’s Notes

Episode 01x03: History of NYC

Before you watch

1. Defi nitionsStudents read the defi nitions and circle the words these refer to. In pairs, students compare their answers. Check the answers with the whole class. Elicit the meaning of the words students did not circle. Point out that in the task the optional answers to each defi nition are the same part of speech. If necessary, give students dictionaries to look up the words. Explain that all the words will be used by the speakers in that video.Key: 1b, 2a, 3c, 4b, 5a, 6a, 7b, 8c, 9a, 10b

2. New York QuizStudents complete the quiz. They will check their answers as they watch the video. Check the answers with the whole class once you have played the video. Then ask students to correct the false statements.Key: 1F, 2T, 3F, 4T

Video tasks

1A. Places in New YorkStudents match the places with the photos. They compare their answers in pairs. Check the answers with the whole class. Key: 1c, 2a, 3b

1B.Brainstorm all the words students associate with the places in Activity 1A, having heard their descriptions in the video. Students can use the words from Activity 1 they completed before watching the video and their own ideas.

2A. HistoryPre-teach: colonists, rename, basically, investments, for a bunch of reasons, entire, collapse, actually, stories, tiny. Students read the texts and replace the question marks with the numbers and dates in the box. They then compare their answers in pairs. Play the video again. Check with the whole class. Key: a. 1664, b. 20th century, c. 1920s, d. 110

2B. Students read the texts in Activity 2A again and fi ll in the gaps with the verbs in brackets in the past simple. They can use a list of irregular verbs. Point out that three of the verbs are regular. Students compare their answers in pairs. Play the video again. Check the answers with the whole class. Key: 1. had, 2. renamed, 3.was, 4. saw, 5. came, 6. put, 7. didn’t have, 8. collapsed, 9.lost, 10. went, 11.looked, 12.were.

Follow-up

Note: During the previous lesson ask each student to choose one event in the history of Poland and do research at home to prepare for Activity 2A. The event can refer to politics, sports, culture or any other area students are interested in.

1A. Talking about the history of New York.Students read the answer and match it to one of the questions asked in the video. They compare their answers in pairs. Check with the whole class.Key: Question number 8.

1B.In pairs, students read the remaining questions from Activity 1A and try to answer them together. They can use the information from the video and their own knowledge of the topic. Elicit the answers to each question from different pairs.

2A. The history of PolandEach student prepares a short description of the event in the history of Poland they researched for homework. They should use the questions provided and sample answers to help them with the task. You can play the video again to show students model descriptions. Give students 10–15 minutes for preparation. Monitor students’ work and provide help.

2BIn pairs, students tell each other about the event from Activity 2A. They should take notes as they listen to each other’s descriptions.

2CIn different pairs, students relate the event their previous partner described to them in Activity 2B. They should use their notes.

ExtensionDo the quiz on the history of Poland (attached below). Divide the class into two teams: A and B and choose the captain in each one. Read out the fi rst question to one team Students have 45 seconds to agree on the answer, which is then given by the captain. If the answer is correct, the team gets 2 points. If it is wrong, the other team can answer the same question for 1 point. Then it is that team’s turn to answer the second question. Continue the procedure until there are no answers left. The team with more points at the end wins the game.

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Teacher’s NotesExtension

HISTORY OF POLAND

1. What was the fi rst capital city of Poland? (Gniezno)

2. Polad had the fi rst constitution in Europe. When did Polish people adopt it? (In 1791)

3. Who was the fi rst Polish king? (Bolesław Chrobry)

4. When did Poland join the European Union? (2004)

5. Which city was the capital city of Poland in the 14th century? (Kraków/Cracow)

6. Which Polish king was called The Great? (Kazimierz/Casmir the Great)

7. When did World War I start? (In 1914)

8. When was the Battle of Grunwald? (In 1410)

9. Who is Mirosław Hermaszewski? (The fi rst Polish astronaut)

10. Ludwik Zamenhof invented Esperanto. What is Esperanto? (A language)

11. Who was the last Polish king? (Stanisław August Poniatowski)

12. Joseph Conrad was a very famous Polish person. Who was he? (A writer)

13. Which Polish scientist won two Nobel Prizes? (Maria Curie Skłodowska)

14. Which Polish president won the Nobel Prize? (Lech Wałęsa)

15. Where was Frederic Chopin born? (Żelazowa Wola)

16. When did World War II fi nish? (1945)

Teacher’s Notes

Episode 01x03: History of NYC

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Teacher’s NotesTranscriptPlease note: original, spontaneous utterances have been used throughout so minor grammatical or lexical slips may occasionally occur. They do not affect the message though and can be exploited to show our students that English, as a global language, can be spoken in a number of communicative ways.

Teacher’s Notes

Episode 01x03: History of NYC

Gosia: Welcome to the next episode of Voices of New York. New York is a city with a long and very rich history. It was fi rst inhabited by different tribes of Native Americans, until early 16th century, when the Europeans came. Throughout the years of colonization, the city had different names, such as New Angouleme or New Amsterdam. But it was in 1664 when English colonists renamed the city to New York, after English Duke of York and Albany.And what happened next ? Let’s fi nd out. Between 1880 and 1919 more than 23 million people emigrated to the United States. About 17 million of those immigrants entered through New York City, where the fi rst Immigration Station was opened in 1892 on Ellis Island.Rachel: Ellis Island was basically the entry point for 20th century immigrants coming to the United States. And really the fi rst thing that they saw when they came to the shores of America, was the Statue of Liberty.

What do you know about the history of the Statue of Liberty?

Rachel: The Statue of Liberty which is located on … in Downtown Manhattan, was given to New York by the state of France in 1886 as a sign of friendship between the two peoples.

How has it changed?

Rachel: Well, when the statue was fi rst given to New York by France it was a giant golden-bronze color and now, you know, when you cross the bridge or you’re driving and you see the Statue of Liberty, it’s this very green color.

Can you describe the Statue of Liberty?

Rachel: Statue of Liberty is kind of like this lady with a … you know …  I don’t have the crown of horns on my head, but she’s holding a tablet and she’s holding a torch.

How important is it right now?

Rachel: Well, the Statue of Liberty is … you know … like one of the most iconic tourist destinations in New York City. You know, it’s this big, green woman, holding a torch. So, I mean, when you think New York, you can’t help thinking of Statue of Liberty. She is sort of a fi xture of New York. Gosia: Large numbers of immigrants who were coming to the United States were not the only landmark of the beginning of 20th century. October 29th, 1929, also called Black Tuesday, was the symbolic beginning of Great Depression – severe, worldwide, economic crisis. It started with the Wall Street Crash   - the most devastating Stock Market Crash in the United States.Alexander: So … during the 1920s a lot of people in America …. they put a lot of their money into investments on Wall Street, into the stock market. And at the end of 1920s for a bunch of reasons … Because there was too many products being made in factories, because too many people were putting money that they didn’t have into it, the entire market collapsed. And as a result a lot of people lost … a lot of people lost all their money. One in four Americans had no jobs at all and it led to the worst period economically in the country’s history.

Where does the name “Wall Street” come from?

Alexander: So back when New York was called New Amsterdam and it was controlled by Dutch colonists, the end of Manhattan island, they built the big wall to keep the water from where people lived.   And the wall that they built there is why they still call it Wall Street to this day. That’s where they got the name from.

What is Wall Street known for?

Alexander: It’s mainly been … after the wall … when they, you know, kept the water out … Since then it’s become famous as a center of commerce and, you know, the name Wall Street really conjures up ideas of big American business, of the banking sector.Gosia: After 12 years of Great Depression, the late 1940s and 1950s brought economic growth to New York City. In April 1973, the World Trade Center complex was opened just a few blocks from Wall Street. During the 1990s, approximately 500 companies had offi ces there including many fi nancial companies tied to Wall Street.Jonathan: The World Trade Center was the biggest building in New York City. I actually went to the top of it one time. I was like a hundred and ten stories, when you looked down at the streets, like the taxi cabs were just like tiny little dots. So it was a very famous landmark in New York City.  

What happened to these buildings?

Jonathan: On 9.11.2001, two planes that were hijacked by terrorists hit the World Trade Center building downtown in the Financial District, here in Manhattan and the buildings collapsed and over 3000 people died.