Reading Comprehension activity, Guías, Proyectos, Investigaciones de Inglés

READING COMPREHENSION 8TH

Read the text and underline the words you don´t know, look up their meaning in

the English dictionary.Lee el texto y subraya las palabras que no conoces, busca

su significado en el diccionario.

Getting to know New York City

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New York City, also known as the Big Apple, is both a huge city and

the name of the state where it is located. It is the most important city

can find the not less famous Statue of Liberty, offered by the French to the North

American people as a symbol of freedom.   .New York is very big, bigger than we can

imagine. There are three airports:. JFK, La Guardia and Newark, 200 bus routes, 12.000

taxis and ten subway lines.. New York streets are also large and long, some of them are

kms long and they are named with numbers, Broadway is the largest avenue in

Manhattan.. The most important avenue is 5th Avenue, famous for its luxury shops.

.....The center of New York is Manhattan and it is the economic and cultural area.. The

biggest and most famous park in New York is Central Park, in the center of Manhattan,

where you can find a zoo, skating rinks, sports courts, two lakes and a pool.

.....New York is also well known for its museums, one of them is the Metropolitan

Vocabulary:

boroughs: Municipios/Comunas  -    huge: grande  -     bridge: puente