BR FACTFILES NEW YORK

I am going to talk about book is New York.
New York is the city one of the biggest city in the world. More than twenty million people from all over the world visit New York every year. Most of them say, “It’s the most exciting city in the world”. From American movies, old and new – King Kong, On the town, Anime, Manhattan, Spiderman, and many more.
New York is not the capital of New York State. Albany, 154 miles to the north of the city, is the capital. I thought that New York is the capital but it was not.
Four hundred years ago, Manhattan Island was the home of the Native American people called the Algonquin Indians. In 1609, a man called Henry Hudson came up the river to Manhattan. In 1626, a Dutchman called Peter Minuit gave the Algonquin Indians about twenty- four dollars for the island of Manhattan. But in 1664, the British took the town from the Dutch and changed its name to New York. Then there was the War of Independence – a war between the British and some of the people of North America. It finished in 1783, the British left, and the United State of America had its first president – George Washington. In 1790, about 33,000 people lived in New York, but then millions more men and women began to leave their countries and come to America from all over the world. The first immigrants came from Germany and Ireland; Later, more came from Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Africa, and China. These “New Americans” often lived in the same streets with other people from their own country – Irish with Irish, Italians with Italians, Chinese with Chinese. Today, there are parts of New York called Chinatown and Little Italy.
On 11 September, 2001 – “9/11” to Americans – everyrhing changed. At 8.46 a.m. on that day an American Airlines plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Seventeen minutes later, at 9.03 a.m., a United Airlines plane crashed into the South Tower. Nobody can forget 9/11. People all across the world watched on TV and saw the last minutes of two big towers. Thousands of people died in and near the center. Today this place is called Ground Zero. This news was made me surprised and fear. I cannot forget this news.
Americans love to watch baseball, and New York has two famous baseball team – the Mets and the Yankees. Shea Stadium is the home of the New York Mets, and they play there between April and September. I think baseball is the most famous sports in all over the world. I like to play and watch baseball. I like New York Yankees.
Any other famous sports in America is ice hockey, tennis basketball. I played basketball when I was elementary school and junior high school student. So I like basketball and I want to watch NBA’s game.
I think New York is very good city. I want to go to New York.
John E. (2008) FACTFILES New York OXFORD

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