Unit 14 People Who Changed the Shape of Our WorldPart 1 Communicative ActivitiesAims: 1) Learning the descriptive language in relation to the tourist attractions of New York City. 2) Understanding cutural elements of New York City, and learning to talk about them in relation to Ss personal preference and needs.1. Interactive listening and speaking:A Pre listening task. Learning suggestions: 1) Read the 19 attractions, pay attention to the pronounciation. 2) Before listening to the recording, guess what you would hear, and get familiar with all these place names. 3) Identify the pictures based on the names. 4) Speak out your guesses and explain why you choose them.B Listening: Sequence 1) Listen and check your guesses. 2) Put your guesses in the correct sequence.Answers 1. Time square 2. Natural History Museum 3. Fith Avenue 4. The St. Patricks Cathedral 5. Wall Street 6. Ground Zero 7. The Brooklyn Bridge 8. Ellis Island 9. ChinatownC Listening for details 1. Listen to the recording for several times until you get enough notes for discusstion. 2. Select key words or phrases for the features of the tourst attraction. 3. Report in your own words based on the worksheet.Answer for reference 1. Time Square: the pulse of the city, most exciting location of the night life; 2. Natural History Museum: four floors of exhibits showing all aspects of lige from the beginning and present. 3. 3. Fith Avenue: World-renowned shopping street, full of brand name shops; 4. The St. Patricks Cathedral: Seat of Archbishop, the largest decorated Gothic styled Catholic Cathedral, center of catholic life of the US; 5. Wall Street: A financial district which used to be protects by wood wall; 6. Ground Zero: The debris of World Trade Center Towers in memory of the victims of “9.11”; 7. The Brooklyn Bridge: An old bridge built in 1883, the longest then; 8. Ellis Island: A small island in NY Harbor, used to ab immigtation station; 9. Chinatown: Largest Chinatown in the US.2. Speaking:1) Find a partner to talk with. Each suggest one or two places to visit. 2) Each should raise a reason for your choices. 3) Work out the table by writing your details.Recording script Hi, ladies and gentlemen, let me take you through the tourist attractions pof New York City for today. Here is a list of 18 tourist attracitons, but due to the limit of the time, we can only cover nine of them today. The first is Time square, which is located between Broadway and 42th street. The name originated from the fact that the famous New York Times newspaper building was once located here. This is the spot where the pulse of city can be found. It is also the most exciting location of Manhattan during the evening hour. It is a cibrant area with play houses, restaurants and shopsit is the city of lights. On our second slide show is the Natural History Museum. The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world famous attractions in New York City. There ate four floors of exhibits in this large building: it shows all aspects of life from the beginning of time to the present. On this picture is Fith Avenue. It is the renowned street for the large number of the expensive brand name shops. With the beautiful display windows, the famous shops are lined up along each side of the street one after another. Now, lets move on to the next picture. The St. Patricks Cathedral. The St. Patricks Cathedral is the seat of Archbishop o fNew York. It is the largest decorated Gothic styled Catholic Cathedral in the United States. And it has been recognized throughout the history as the center of the catholic life in this county. Ground Zero. Nobody would ever forget the death and the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings on the fatal day of Sept 11, 2001. All people around the world felt the pain of New Yorkers on that day. The Brooklyn Bridge which joins Manhattan and Brooklyn was officially completed in 1883. At that time it was th elongest bridge made. For a penny toll cost, people were allowed to cross the brdge. This included people, trolleys, all heavy vehicles, and even live stocks. Ellis Island. Grom 1892 to 1954 over 12 million immigrants passed through the federal Immigration Station at Ellis Island, a small island in the New York Harbor. Chinatown. It is the larges Chinatown in the United States, and it is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Manhattan. The rest of places will be introduced tomorrow.Part 2 Reading and Language ActivitiesAims1) learning to understand the passage about New York City and its people 2) learning to use the concept of signpost language for understanding discourses 3) learning to interpret unknown words/phrases by using contextual cues1. Pre-reading tasks1) Write down the facts you know about New York City. 2) Write down what you hope to know more about it.2. Reading suggestions: 1) Read the text for its main idea. 2) Read the text