Homework, May 11th

TED TALK
Through the eyes of a child immigrant. Erik Gomez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46wWjKTn4Ac
Circle the correct option.
1-Most Americans recognize the USA was built by immigrants/ natives.

2-Some people argue that America is the greatest nation in the world/ a very
good country.

3-Immigrants are vilified/ taken into consideration for everything.

4-People say immigrants are pushing up the economy and hard-working/

lazy, dangerous full of diseases.

4-The ideas that Americans have about immigrants are new/ 130 years old.

5-When people talk so harshly about immigration, there’s a feeling of disgust/

fear connected to that.

6-Americans believe that if too many immigrants go to live their they will lose
their way of life. / will stop being Christians.

7-People say the USA is the greatest country in the world. However, they have
never travelled abroad/ they have been to Canada.

8-According to a poll, only 140/650 million people want to live in the USA.

9-Erik crossed the border by plane/illegally together with his family.

10-When he was at school, he used to be afraid of being bullied/ of his

mother being at home.

11-Her mother used to work in a mushroom plantation and she could win a
prize for being hard-working/ could be deported to her country.

12-Although children learn at school how great the USA became thanks to
immigrants, boys like Erik suffer/ have a great time because the others tell him
that he has to go back to his country.
13-Donald Trump called the Mexican people cheerful, kind, brown/ thieves,
rapists, drug smugglers.

14-People in the USA hear that Mexicans have amazing antique traditions/
are drug dealers and murderers.

15-People in Mexico hear about all the mass shooting in the USA/ the USA
being the best country to live.

16-America can be greater if people embraces the different cultures that live
there/ Donald Trump becomes president.