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    This document provides a lesson on how cities develop and change over time using New York City as an example. It includes the following: 1) A video about how New York became an important city due to its harbor, location along major trade routes, growth during the industrial revolution, and waves of European immigration. 2) Discussion questions about what students already know about New York and what factors helped it grow. 3) An excerpt about learning about the history of one's own hometown or nearby cities in order to understand their development and plan for their future.

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    This document provides a lesson on how cities develop and change over time using New York City as an example. It includes the following: 1) A video about how New York became an important city due to its harbor, location along major trade routes, growth during the industrial revolution, and waves of European immigration. 2) Discussion questions about what students already know about New York and what factors helped it grow. 3) An excerpt about learning about the history of one's own hometown or nearby cities in order to understand their development and plan for their future.

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    GREAT LEARNERS
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    EVOLVING CITIES
    Lesson aim: To think about how and why cities develop, change
    ( and grow
    Video: How New York became New York
    SEL Social and emotional learning: Being curious
    5 Read the text. Write one sentence explaining
    its main message(s).
    1 SPEAKING Ask and answer these questions.

    ) 1 What do you know about New York (e.g. its location, things to see and do there)?
    Make brief notes.
    Your hometown’s past, present and future
    2 What do you think helped New York to become such a big and important city? It often happens that we learn interesting facts about big,
    famous cities from around the world but we don’t know
    2 VIDEO Watch a video about how and why New York became so important. much about the actual place where we live. When and why
    Tick ( ) the things it mentions. did people decide to come and live here for the first time?
    How has the city or town changed since those days until
    1 It offered a great harbour for ships from around the world. now? What have been the great and/or difficult moments in
    2 The weather was ideal for working. the city’s history? Has it got bigger or smaller as time has
    3 It served as a connection between the Old World and the New World. passed and why? By studying our city or town’s past we can
    4 Thanks to the Industrial Revolution there were a lot of factories there. understand its present too … and make plans for its future.

    ! 5 Millions of Europeans went to work there.


    6 They built lots of skyscrapers to make it easy for people to live there.
    "
    BEFORE AFTER
    6 SPEAKING Work in a small group. How much
    7 Good transport made it possible to do business with the rest of the world. do you know about the city or town where you
    live, or a big, famous city nearby? Together,
    3 VIDEOWatch the video again. Why do they mention these numbers, you’re going to prepare a mini-poster with
    places or people? ‘Five Fascinating Facts’. Do research to find out
    1 400 3 the Irish 5 London or confirm your facts.
    2 The Hudson River 4 the 1840s
    GREAT LEARNERS SEL
    GREAT THINKERS Great learners are curious
    Connect-Extend-Challenge
    When you read or hear about people, places
    and things in texts and videos, are you usually
    4 Think about the video you watched and follow the
    SPEAKING
    curious to find out more? Why do you think
    instructions. curiosity is an essential quality for all learners?
    1 How are the ideas in the video connected with what you already knew and
    discussed in 1?
    2 What information in the video extended what you already knew?
    3 What would you like to challenge in the video? Is there anything that you
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    don’t completely agree with or that you would like to check, investigate
    and know more about?
    4 Share your ideas with other students. Find out more about the history of
    New York if you are interested.

    36 Unit 3 Unit 3 37

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