San Francisco

1.      Where is San Francisco located?

2.      Would you like to travel to San Francisco? Why (not)?

Watch the video and say the locations and monuments  you can see in San Francisco. Choose from the list. 

The Statue of Liberty                       cable cars

Victorian houses                              Central Park

Golden Gate Bridge                         Disneyland

Fisherman’s Wharf                          Broadway

Empire State Building                     Alcatraz

Read the text and do the tasks below.

History

The community was settled in 1776 by the Spanish. In 1848 gold was discovered in California, near Sacramento, and the goldrush transformed San Francisco into a booming community.

The city developed as a port and became an early cultural centre. By 1900 San Francisco had more than 340,000 inhabitants.

On April 18, 1906, a major earthquake shook the city and caused a fire that raged for three days, destroying almost all of San Francisco’s city centre and most of the residential area. Despite this, the city was quickly rebuilt. The city was again badly damaged by an earthquake in 1989, but has since recovered.

During World War II San Francisco was a major shipbuilding centre. In the 1960s and1970s many large modern buildings were constructed in the city.

In the late 1950s the literary development of the Beat Generation was located in San Francisco’s North Beach area and the city has long been famous for its alternative cultures.

Places of interest

The port of San Francisco is one of the largest in the nation. The city contains the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge (opened 1936) and the Golden Gate Bridge (1937) with a central channel span of 1,280 m.

The downtown section of San Francisco has many attractions. Particularly notable are the Transamerica Pyramid Building (1972) and China Town, which has one of the largest Chinese communities outside Asia. There are lots of museums in the city centre: The Maritime Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Mexican Museum and many more.

San Francisco is also famous for its cable cars, which were returned to operation in the mid-1980s after several years of repair.

Vocabulary

Match the underlined words to the definitions below.

·        _________________________: In music and arts it’s the opposite of mainstream, e.g. the hippie culture in the 60’s, punk in the 70’s, hip hop and gangsta rap in the 90’s.

·        _________________________: there are only private houses, no offices or factories.

·        _________________________: place where ships load and unload goods.

·        _________________________: becoming or making bigger, more important.

·        _________________________: sudden violent movement of the earth.

·        _________________________: to change something completely.

·        _________________________: everything which has to do with the sea.

·        _________________________: people living together in one place or country.

·        _________________________: have or hold within itself.

·        _________________________: find or learn about a place or fact for the first time.

·        _________________________: to show violent anger.

·        _________________________: return to normal state, e.g. of health.

Questions

Find questions to the following answers.

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In 1776.

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About 7000,000.

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Gold.

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A major earthquake and a fire destroyed almost all of San Francisco’s city centre.

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A shipbuilding centre.

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In 1937.

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In the mid-1980’s.

« SAN FRANCISCO (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair) » by SCOTT MCKENZIE 

1-Listen to the song

(Fill in the gaps)

If you're going to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some (1)_______ in your (2) _____

If you're going to San Francisco

You're gonna meet some gentle (3) _________ there

(Unscramble the words)

For those who come to San Francisco

(4) smmtmeurie ___________will be a love-in there

In the (5) tserset _________ of San Francisco

(6) tlegne _______ people with flowers in their hair

(Put the sentences in the right order)

____People in motion

____All across the nation

____People in motion

____There's a whole generation

____People in motion

____Such a strange vibration

____With a new explanation

(Fill in the gaps)

For those who come to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some (7)_______in your (8) ______

If you come to San Francisco

(9) _____________ will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco

(10) ____________will be a love-in there

2- Join the sentences given in the song and their meaning :

A.- You’re gonna meet some kind people there 

B.-In the 1960s, there were millions of hippies from all across the US 

C.-They organised a ‘sit-in’ in streets to protest against war 

D.-Many hippies were constantly in motion, traveling around the country 

E.-A gathering (= rassemblement) where people are encouraged to express friendship 

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1.-All across the nation such a strange vibration

2.-People in motion people in motion

3.-You’re gonna meet some gentle people there

4.-Summertime will be a love-in there

5.-In the streets of San Francisco/Gentle people with flowers in their hair

3- Answer the following questions:

 Who wore some flowers in their hair?

a.      hippies

b.     skinheads

c.      bikers

 Why did they wear flowers?

a.   because they were vegan

b.   to show passive resistance and non violence ideology

c.   they used the flowers to contact the aliens

 Which one of the following expressions was their slogan?

a.      gun power

b.     flower rainbow

c.      flower power

4- Imagine that the city of San Francisco chooses one or two lines of these lyrics as a slogan, what could it be? Which lyrics do you think it represents the city best? Justify your answer.

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Autor: Kolinda Gabrilo