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B Look at the highlighted words/phrases in the blog posts and find their definitions in a dictionary.
C Read the blog posts and check your answers to activity A. Can you name each sight?

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A DAY TRIP TO YORK A RIDE OVER NEW YORK
Last week, I visited one of the oldest cities in the New York City — the largest city in the United States. On
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UK — York. York is a city that has always played a my recent trip there, I took a helicopter tour to see the
huge part in British history. city from above.

The Shambles is one of the best-preserved The first sight we flew over was the city’s most famous
medieval streets in the world and definitely the landmark, the Statue of Liberty. This statue of Lady
most interesting place I visited. It’s a tiny street full Liberty raising her torch into the air dates back to the
of old buildings that date back to the mid-1300s. In 1880s, when it was given to the USA by the French.
the old days, this street was full of shops preparing After the Statue of Liberty, we headed to
and selling meat; now, it’s a great place to do some Manhattan, which is actually an island, right in the
souvenir shopping. middle of the Hudson River. Luckily, it was a lovely
clear night, and we got a beautiful view of Brooklyn
Another place I want to tell you about is Clifford’s
Tower. It used to be part of the much bigger York Bridge, one of the oldest bridges in the US. If I ever
Castle, but after years of neglect, fires and floods, have the chance, I will cross that bridge on foot.
the tower is all that’s left. It’s been repaired since One thing you notice looking out from a helicopter
those days, and now visitors can go inside and look is the number of skyscrapers in New York. Of
around it safely. course, the city is famous for them — for a long
time, New York architects competed to see who
If you have a little extra time, on your way from the could build the tallest skyscraper in the world —
Shambles to Clifford’s Tower, go into the Jorvik and seeing them from above really showed me
Viking Centre. Here, they try to recreate what life what an impressive sight they are.
was like in York during the Viking age, showing you
aspects of daily life at home, at the market, in the After flying over upper Manhattan, we turned to the
streets, etc. You will have the chance to experience right and crossed the river so that we could see the
the sights, sounds, smells and flavour of the Viking Yankee Stadium. We were really lucky because the
world. It’s amazing — and you can even dress up as New York Yankees were playing a baseball game
a Viking. that night, and the stadium was brightly lit up!

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D Read again and write T for True, F for False or NM for Not Mentioned.
1. In the past, the Shambles was an area of food shops.
2. Today the whole of York Castle has been rebuilt
for visitors.
PROJECT
3. Visitors to the Jorvik Viking Centre can buy Viking costumes. PROJECT
Write a blog post!
4. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France.
Choose a city and do research
5. The writer of the blog post walked across Brooklyn Bridge. on the main sights. Imagine
you recently travelled to that
city. Write a blog post about
6. The tallest skyscraper in the world can be found in New York. city. Write a blog post about
the places you visited.
7. Baseball is the only sport which is played at the Yankee Stadium.
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