Orte im Tessin

Ich habe heute versucht ein kleines Video mit http://animoto.com und http://audacity.sourceforge.net/?lang=de zu machen.Es ist natürlich noch nicht perfekt, aber ein Anfang!

1)Beschreibt doch einfach, was ihr seht und macht daraus eine kleine Geschichte.

2) Erklärt, wie man in das Morobbiatal und wie in das Maggiatal gelangt.

3)Was kann man auf dem Gotthard machen und welche Bedeutung hat dieser Ort?

4)Wo liegt Brontallo?

Tessin.

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Swiss emigrations

In the following audio by Swissinfo.ch it is very well explained when the Swiss emigrated mainly to America

and that happened. We’are also informed about the Processing Centers “Castle Garden” and Ellis Island.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/audios/detail.html?siteSect=15055&sid=10671080&mp3=y

1) How many people passed through the Processing Center “Ellis Island” during the huge emigration to

America  in the 1880s which has now become a museum?

2. When were the processing facilities at Ellis Island opened and why?……………………………………………
3. The number of Swiss almost ………………… to 82’000 in………………………………………………………………

(There would never again be so many Swiss people knocking on America’s door.)
4. In what way were the people helped at the processing center „Castle Garden“ and in what way was it   different  from „Ellis Island“?
- List some points, such as information about boarding houses, possibility to speak in various languages

and ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
5.  How were the health controlls at „Ellis Island“?…………………………………………………………………………..
6.  How were the Swiss received in America?…………………………………………………………………………………..
7.  What did they have or bring with them?………………………………………………………………………………………
8.  Why did so many Europeans try to emigrate  between 1880-1914, but especially in the
1880s? and what were they promised?………………………………………………………………………

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

9. What changed, however, definitely in America after that wave of immigration? .

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

10. What is your opinion of nowadays immigration into Switzerland? Do you consider it as

huge?………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Ticino/Tessin

Ab A1/Deutsch, from A1 onward/English

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