41 Answer the questions:

1 Where is Manhattan situated?

2 What was the original name of New York?

3 Do the avenues and streets have only numbers or names with numbers?

4 On the Continent streets are usually named after historic figures and politicians, aren’t they?

5 Was Manhattan itself purchased by the Dutch or Indians?

42 Comment on the story. Writng practice

43 In the usa and Great Britain there are days which are public holidays. In British English they are known as bank holidays.

The USA Great Britain

New Year’s Day (Jan. 1) Easter

Lincoln’s Birthday (Feb. 12) Spring (Bank) Holiday – last Monday in May

Washington’s Birthday (the 3^rd Monday August Bank Holiday (Late

Summer in February)

holiday) – last Monday in August

Independence Day (first Monday in

September) Christmas (December, 25)

Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in Boxing Day (the first day after

November) Christmas)

Christmas (December, 25)

44 Read the season greeting postcard you’ve received from a friend:

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Our family wishes you and your family the very best Christmas and a prosperous year in 1999. Helen

45 Write a postcard to your friend Peter in Great Britain and congratulate him either on Christmas or Easter.

You may find the following expressions useful:

- Happy New Year! Best wishes of the season.

- Good luck and good health in the New Year.

- I congratulate you on...

- My congratulations.

- I congratulate you.

- I’m very glad to congratulate you on.../ Happy to congratulate you.

- Let me wish you...

ZEARN THE WORDS

1. ) district;

2. ) car;

3. ) capital;

4. ) noise;

5. ) crossroad;

6. ) pedestrian;

7. ) road;

8. ) traffic;

9. ) motorway;

10) transport.

Audial practice

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Tokyo

I don’t live in Tokyo. I don’t even know whether I would like to live there. I love it and hate it – it is one of those places that you can love and hate at the same time.

The first “fact” about Tokyo, for me, is that there are too many people. I don’t mean the fact that 12000000 people live there. That is 4000000 more than London or New York, but it is not an important fact for me.

In Tokyo there are always too many people in the places where I want to be. That is important fact for me. Of course there are too many cars. The Japanese drive very fast when they can but in Tokyo they often spend a long time in traffic jams. Tokyo is not different from London, Paris and New York. It is different when one wants to walk.

At certain times of the day there are a lot of people on foot in London’s Oxford Street or near the big shops and stores in other great cities. But the streets in Tokyo always have a lot of people on foot, and sometimes it is really difficult to walk. People are very polite; there are just too many of them.

The worst time to be in the street is at 11.30 at night. That is when the night-clubs are closing and everybody wants to go home. Between 11 and 12 everybody is looking for a taxi. Usually the taxis are shared by four or five people who live in the same part of the city.

During the day, people use the trains. Perhaps the first thing you notice in Tokyo is the number of trains. Most people travel to and from work by train, and there is a station at almost every street corner. At most stations, trains arrive every two or three minutes, but at certain hours there do not seem enough trains. At 8 o’clock in the morning you can see students pushing passengers into the trains. Usually the trains are nearly full when they arrive at the station, so the students have to push very hard. Sometimes the pushers are also pushed by mistake, and they have to get out at the next station. Although they are usually crowded, Japanese trains are very good. They always leave and arrive on time. On a London train you would see everybody reading a newspaper. In Tokyo trains everybody in a seat seems to be asleep. Some Japanese make a train journey of two hours to go to work, so they do their sleeping on the train. But if a train journey lasts only 5 minutes, and if they have a seat, they will also go to sleep. They always wake when they arrive at their station.

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