Well, here my oral presentation.
In my opinion the power point and the work we did at home was really successfull but the thing I did wrong or that I should improve is that I was looking all the time the paper. I should be more confident with myself. I considere that my pronunciation is quite good and that I vocalize very crearly the words. I should learn how to explain things with my own words and being more espontaneous.
NEW YORK
Tiziana.
Good morning to everyone we are Eugenia and Tiziana and today our aim is to teach you some interesting things from New York.
We had chosen a few topics because as you must know there are hundreds of things to talk about.
I'm going to start with a little introduction, New York is also known as the “Big Apple” or the “City that never sleeps” and its population is around 8 millions people.
New York it's America biggest business, cultural capital, nation's trendsetter and the most exiting city.
New York is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world it also exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, tecnology, education and entretainment.
New York is one of the world's largest natural harbors and it also consist of five boroughts, each of which consist a state contry: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and State Island.
Eugènia.
I will introduce you some places to visit; first of all we have the Brooklyn's bridge above the East River, infront of the City hall. It's teh most important bridge and you last 30 minutes to go from one side to the other.
The Central Park its a huge park next to a very importnat college where most of the studients go there when they finish. It has a small zoo, an ice-kating rink, a theater outdoor, a place to ride horses..
Next we have China Town which is the biggest community of Chinesse people outside Asia.
The World Trade Center or Twins towers, they were the highest buildings of New York. And the second hihghest tower of the world.
You should know it, that the 11th of September of 2001 a group of terrorist stole two airplains crashing against them.
They absolutely destroyed them and caused a horrible desaster.
Following the destruction of the World Trade Center the Empire State became the tallest building of New York. At the top it has a huge anthenna.
The most famous side to visit and important one is the Statue of Liberty. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France and it is an icon of freedom and of the United States.
Tiziana.
FOOD AND DRINK.
TOP “8” TYPICAL FOOD FROM NY
1- The most typical food in North-America is the fast food because is the kind of food that can be served very quickly. The term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingridients and served to the customer in a packaged form for take-away. Examples: hot-dog, hamburgers, pizza, nuggets, fries,..
Some of the most cummon restaurants are : Mc. Donald's, Burger King, Pizza Hut, KFC, Subway..
2- New England clam chowder. It's often served in restaurants on Fridays. Among many types of clam chowders, massachuset one is the most special it is traditionally made with bacon, onion, potatoes, flour and clams.
3- The Apple pie is concidered to be served for breakfast. Lemon juice is usually added to the bottom layer and buttermilk to the topping.
4- Po-Boys. It's a sandwich composed by fried meat or seafood inside. The traditional dish is served hot and includes frie shrimp and oysters.
Besides catfish, roast beef, hot sausage and French fries.
5- Chilli Peppers. Used as food and medicine. The American do not like chilli foods as much as Korean and Chinesse, but peppers are essential ingridients in their dishes.
6- Small oysters used to disappear, therefore oysters farmers had to import Pacific and Eastern oystres to replace them.
7- Fajitas Beef. Is an integral ingridient which makes fajitas great. However, chiken, pork and shrimp are good alternatives. Popular condiments such as tomato, pico de gallo, sour cream, lettuce and cheese are shredded.
8- Pastrami. It is origined by Turkey and introduced to United States in a wave of Jewish imigration. It's usually made from beef seasoned with a mixt of spices such as garlic, black pepper, paprika, mustard seed..)
Eugènia.
DRINKS (sugared drinks)
Soda which can be called fezzy drinks too.
The Ice teas, the most cummon one is cold tea with lemon and ice.
Sport or Energetic drinks
Flavored waters
Fruit drinks
Powered drinks
LENGUAGES. In America more than 200 lenguages are spoken.
English is the mother lenguage. All the communication is done in English.
New York has serious communication problemes, especially in the schools because of the major influence since World War II of Spanish speakers from Caribbean region or speakers of South called Black English and more recently, Asian in addition to the ever-present large numbers of speakers of the other lenguages. As a result, schools in some areas have emphasized teaching English as a second lenguage.
CULTURE-RACES-ETHNICITIES
The 35 % of the population are immigrants.
As they have so many people from many different places the culture mixes everyday.
The population organizes itself : Republica Dominicana, China, Jamaica, Rusia, Italy, Polon, India and so we can travel to China town, little Italy, little Korea, little India and Spanish Harlem without leaving the city.
The religions are : Induism, Judaism, Muslim, Catholic. There is a community of Judaism were it has the biggest Jewish community.
CONCLUTION
(tizi)
We have chosen New York because we have never been there and we would like to visit it. There are lot of interesting places and after seeing all the pictures and learnd so many information we defenetly think it's an amazing city and you have to go there at least once in your life.
