New York

Discover New York through videos and audio recordings: the city, its neighbourhoods, landmarks and museums, Ellis Island and a guide welcoming tourists.

For each video, start with Watch and answer, then complete the commentary and finish with the vocabulary.

Discover New York City

Ready for your first trip to New York?

• Take the audio quiz on New York This quiz will help you get to know the city that never sleeps.
• Read and complete the text A summary of the quiz: the essential facts to remember when you talk about the Big Apple.

New York profile

The city in a few numbers. Some of them will surprise you!

• Watch and answer How many people? How many yellow cabs? How much snow? The Big Apple in numbers.
• Watch and complete Drag the right words and check you caught the key figures.
• Vocabulary quiz Choose the right word to complete each sentence from the video.
• Vocabulary Learn the words you need to describe a big city.

America's largest city

A guided tour of the city's most famous neighbourhoods.

• Watch and complete Follow the guide from Wall Street to Little Italy, and complete the commentary as you go.
• Sentences Practise the useful sentences from the video.
• Crossword Test your memory of the city with a crossword.

Top 5 things to do

• Watch and answer Lady Liberty, the Rockettes, Central Park, Times Square and the MoMA: watch and answer.
• Watch and complete Only one day in New York? Here is what you shouldn't miss.

Top 10 attractions

• Watch and answer Which landmark is number one? How many visitors does Central Park get? 15 questions on the Big Apple.
• Watch and complete Which sights are a must? Watch and complete.
• Vocabulary: drag the words 44 words, 6 slides: drag each English word next to its French translation.

A holiday in New York

Nine famous places, nine short recordings. Choose where you want to go first!

• Brooklyn Bridge
• Greenwich Village
• The Metropolitan Museum
• Central Park
• Ellis Island
• The MoMA
• The Statue of Liberty
• Times Square
• Ground Zero

New York's museums

Art, science, history... New York has a museum for everyone.

• Vocabulary first Learn the key words before you watch: it makes the video much easier.
• Watch and answer Wax stars, a supersonic plane, dinosaurs and Marilyn: which museum would you choose?
• Watch and complete Watch and drag the right words.
• Use the vocabulary Use your new words in context.
• Mixed-up sentences Put the words back in the right order to rebuild the sentences.
• Who am I? Each museum describes itself. Can you guess which one it is?
• Which museum is it? Look at the building and name the museum.
• Vocabulary quiz 1 How many museum words do you remember?
• Vocabulary quiz 2 A second round to make the words stick.

Ellis Island

The island where millions of Americans' families began their new life.

• Start the activity Step into the shoes of the 12 million immigrants who came through Ellis Island.

A guide welcomes tourists

Imagine you have just arrived in New York with a group of tourists.

• Start the activity Welcome to New York! Your guide has a busy programme for you. Can you follow her?