Prime Time 4, Coursebook

A visit to Ellis Island Listening: Ellis Island a) Listen to the tour guide talking about Ellis Island. Take notes regarding the dates. b) Listen again to complete your notes and tick the correct answers. 1. The tourists …  are on a boat. have got off the boat. are inside the museum. 2. Most of the arriving immigrants … wanted to move to California. stayed in New York. were sent home. 3. The immigration centre on Ellis Island … is still open today. was closed last year. was closed in the 1950s. c) What else would you like to ask the tour guide? Write two questions in your notebook. a556r6 4 1.3 e2s6cc 1860–1890 first wave of immigrants 1892 1920s 1954 1976 Ellis Island around 1918 Ellis Island today Immigrant children around 1905 The Great Hall today 18 2 Unit New York eighteen Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv