THE STATUE OF LIBERTY : a SYMBOL of FREEDOM

READING COMPREHENSION

Date :

Read the information about The STATUE OF LIBERTY and put the verbs between
brackets in the passive form. Mind the tenses !

Originally called Liberty Enlightening the World , the Statue of Liberty is a colossal statue on Liberty
Island which .. (locate)in the harbour of New York. The statue, the island,
and nearby Ellis Island .(declare) a national monument in 1924.
The statue symbolizing liberty is in the form of a woman wearing flowing robes and a spiked crown
who holds a torch aloft in her right hand and carries in her left hand a book on which
...... (inscribe) "July 4, 1776" .

Americas liberation from Britain . (symbolize) by a broken chain at her

feet. Designed by the French sculptor Frdric Bartholdi, the statue
.. (give) by France to the United States to commemorate the centennial of US
independence in 1876. Funds . (raise) in France by popular
subscription to pay for the statue ; US donors financed the pedestal and installation of the monument
... .(finance) by American donors.

The work . (dedicate) by President Grover Cleveland on October 28,

1886.

Originally conceived as a gesture of international friendship, the statue has become a global symbol of
freedom, marking the arrival of millions of immigrants to the United States.

In 1903 the sonnet called The New Colossus which .. .. (write) by

the US poet Emma Lazarus in 1883 , (inscribe) in bronze on a
tablet within the pedestal on which the statue stands.

As the words of the Lazarus poem reflect, the statue quickly became the symbol of America as a land

of hope and opportunity for generations of immigrants.

 CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING :
Use the information above to label the STATUE OF LIBERTY .

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Miss Libertys Measurements : Read the information about the STATUE OF

LIBERTY s measurements and convert the weights and measures.

HELP : 1 pound [lb] = 0.4536 kg

0.9842 ton = 1 000 kg ( tonne)
1 foot [ft]= 1 foot [ft] = 0.3048 m
1 inch [in] ( pl : inches) = 2.54 cm

The statue, formed of copper sheets riveted to an iron framework, is one of the largest in the world. It
measures 306 ft 8 in (. m )from the bottom of the pedestal to the tip of the torch. The
figure itself is 152 ft 2 in high (m) ; the right arm is 42 ft long ( .. m); the hand
is 16ft 5 in long ( m) ; and the head, which is reachable by staircase or emergency lift,
measures 28 ft ( . m) from neck to diadem and 10 ft ( m) from ear to ear. The
Statue of Liberty's nose is 4 ft. 6 in. ( m) The statue weighs 250 tons ( tonnes).

The crown has seven points, representing the seven seas and seven continents. Each individual ray
of the crown weighs about 150 pounds ( . kg), and measures up to 9 ft. 8
(.. m) There are 354 steps inside the statue from the pedestal to the crown and 25
viewing windows in the crown.
 EMMA LAZARUS s POEM:

FIND a possible ENDING for each line of the verse . MATCH THEM UP !

THE NEW COLOSSUS

Give me your tired, a- of your teeming shore.

b- the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

Your huddled masses
c- your poor
The wretched refuse
d- beside the golden door !
Send these,
e- yearning to breathe free,
I lift my lamp

FRENCH TRANSLATION : FIND the ENGLISH equivalent and COMPLETE the WORDBANK .

Le rebut misrable de vos rivages surpeupls ,

Je brandis mon flambeau ct de la porte dore.

Laissez venir moi les sans-abris ballotts par les temptes,

Donnez-moi moi vos masses pauvres et extnues,

Vos masses blotties les unes contre les autres qui aspirent tre libres.

WORDBANK :

huddled =
yearn =
wretched =
refuse =
teeming =
tempest-tost =

Rewrite the last lines of the verse in a chronological order.