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CONNECT 6 Unit 1 “Green Cities” Lesson 3

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Hi Samer,
How are you? I’m well and New York is great! Our apartment is on the sixteenth floor, so
we have a great view.
New York has a lot of green spaces. There are also a lot of projects to create parks
and green areas in parts of the city that no-one uses now, like the famous High Line
– do you know about it?
Years ago, the High Line was a railway line, but in the 1980s trains stopped using it.
Some local residents then decided to make the old railway into a big, long park that
everyone could use. Now it’s a green space with more than 500 species of plants
and trees in it! It is 2.5 kms long and when you walk through it, you can see art
works, watch a theatre performance, eat delicious food, or go running, or just hang
out with your friends there. I think it’s my favorite place in New York. Through our
neighborhood, so I often go there with my parents. Here is one of my photos of it.

How are things in Alexandria? I miss home. New York is very noisy all the time.
Alexandria is much quieter at night.
There are lots of different restaurants here, and the food doesn’t taste like the food at
home. The Alexandrian restaurants are better. I think the food tastes more delicious
in Egypt. I miss our food so much!
Write soon and tell me all your news, Wael

Answer the following questions:

1- What’s Wael’s favorite place in New York? -------------------------------------------------

2-How were the local residents helpful to their neighborhood?

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A) Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d:

3- Wael lives in an apartment block in -----------------------.

a) Port Said b) Alexandria c) New York d) Cairo

4-The underlined word it refers to---------------------------

a) a restaurant b) a theatre c) a class d) the old railway

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