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The story of Ellis Island - worksheet
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Grammar: PREPOSITIONS
Complete these sentences with the appropriate prepositions
- 1. The immigrants disembarked (____________) the steamship that had carried them (____________) the ocean.
- 2. Like the thousands of other people milling (____________) them, they are caught (____________) (____________) a mixture of hope and apprehension as they crowd (____________) a vast waiting room.
- 3. They have come, seeking life (____________) a new world; and now they are (____________) American soil (____________) the first time.
- 4. After hours of waiting, they are called (____________) a desk.
- 5. All those who pass (____________) Ellis Island are would-be immigrants.
- 6. (____________) many, passing (____________) Ellis Island was not so much a matter of stepping (____________) a new world, it was stepping (____________) a new life, a new character.
- 7. The man who finally led his family (____________) the door and (____________) the ferry packed (____________) a jostling crowd of new Americans was not Franz Schumacher any more, but Frank Shoemaker.
- 8. Ellis Island, almost (____________) the shadow (____________) the Statue of Liberty (____________) the entrance (____________) New York Harbor, was the first stop (____________) American soil (____________) some twelve million immigrants (____________) the years 1892 and 1954.
Reading: matching exercise:
Take
one element from each column to form a sentence, and add in an
appropriate time clause (e.g. "on 12th November
2008").
B
- ever since the Declaration of Independence
- saw 12 million immigrants
- because of restrictive immigration laws
- closed its doors
- opened for business
- disembarked on Ellis Island
- was destroyed by fire
- to build a federal immigration station
- opened
- ever since the Declaration of Independence
- saw 12 million immigrants
- because of restrictive immigration laws
- closed its doors
- opened for business
- disembarked on Ellis Island
- was destroyed by fire
- to build a federal immigration station
- opened
A
- Congress set aside funds
- Franz and Ulrike Schumacher
- the US has been a nation of immigrants
- the new building
- the new station
- the French Renaissance style building
- Ellis Island
- immigration declined sharply
- the Ellis Island Immigration Station
- Congress set aside funds
- Franz and Ulrike Schumacher
- the US has been a nation of immigrants
- the new building
- the new station
- the French Renaissance style building
- Ellis Island
- immigration declined sharply
- the Ellis Island Immigration Station
Role Play activity:
Franz and Ulrike Schumacher have just arrived on Ellis Island: they are at last called to a desk, for the immigration formalities. The two immigration officers are going to ask them a whole lot of questions about their past and their future; they are also going to make some suggestions about where to go and how to set about doing things in the United States. They will also suggest the Schumachers anglicize their name; while Franz thinks this is a great idea, Ulrike has reservations.
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