Today, about one-fifth of New Yorks seven million residents were born outside the USA. 5.________ About 14,000 Native Americans from all over the USA live in New York City, and the population is growing all the time. But where now are the people whose ancestors were the citys first inhabitants? Two surviving groups of these early settlers still have a connection with Manhattan. They are the Delaware, who now live in over 2,000 km away in Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Ontario; and the Ramapough, a community living on the border of New York and New Jersey, direct descendants of Manhattans original inhabitants.
When the Dutch first settles on the island, groups of Native Americans came every year to the settlements in the south and north to hunt, fish and grow crops. 6.________
However, the Native Americans and New Yorks most eye-catching modern feature, the skyscraper, are closely linked. As the giants began to rise over Manhattan, the heroic descendants of New York States Iroquois became very famous. They gained a
New Yorks Skyscrapers
reputation for being extremely skilled steel workers in the construction industry. Without them, New Yorks most impressive skyscrapers would never have been built and New York would not have the city skyline it has today.
3. Vocabulary. Nouns, verbs and adjectives.
a) These words are all used in the article and missing sentences. Decide from the context which are: 1)nouns; 2) verbs; 3) adjectives. Which words do you think have a negative meaning?
bargain, claim, defeat, discover, disease, escape, eye-catching, fail, feature, gain, heroic, impressive, reputation, original, skilled, starvation, surviving, victory
