Red Line 4, Coursebook

twenty-seven 27 Talk about food in New York. Talk about US immigration. Use American money. Say how you feel in English. Talk about actions before other actions in the past. Name three things you can buy in a deli. Name four groups of immigrants to the US. How many dimes are there in a dollar? A friend tells you something sad. What can you say? Say two things that had already happened when you got up this morning. NOW YOU CAN 3 The history of Central Park (simple past, past perfect ➝ G3, G4) Read the text and put in the right form of the verb, simple past or past perfect. Before they 1 ( come ) to the US, many immigrants 2 ( live ) in small villages. After they 3 ( be ) in NewYork for a year or two, they 4 ( start ) to miss the trees and fields of home. They also 5 ( want ) a place for their families, a park where their children 6 ( can ) play or do sports. After officials 7 ( argue ) for about three years, they finally 8 ( decide ) where to put it. After they 9 ( draw ) the plans, they 10 ( talk ) to people who 11 ( live ) in the area which they 12 ( choose ). After the people 13 ( leave ) their homes, workers 14 ( destroy ) their houses and 15 ( start ) to work on the park project. They 16 ( change ) a huge area in the middle of Manhattan into a beautiful park. 20,000 people 17 ( work ) on the area which is now Central Park. This 18 ( be ) the first public park in the US. Work on the project 19 ( start ) in 1858 and it 20 ( take ) eight years to finish it. ä 4 9 /11 (mixed exercise) Read the text and put in the right word each time. Until that awful day, theWorld Trade Center had 1 one of the tallest buildings 2 the world. 50,000 people 3 in the offices there, and lots of visitors also went 4 in the elevators to enjoy the view of Manhattan 5 the top. Then, 6 September 11, 2001, everything changed. Terrorists flew two planes 7 the twin towers, and the buildings fell to the ground in a terrible cloud 8 smoke and steel. More 9 2,800 people died that day. Most of them were already in theWorld Trade Center 10 the planes hit 11 . But some were firefighters 12 arrived later. They lost 13 lives when 14 tried to save people. NewYorkers 15 never forget these heroes. ➝ WB 13, 1 – 3 Check-out 1 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eig ntum des Verlags öbv