COMMUNITIES ARE BUILT WHERE PEOPLE MEETWHERE DO PEOPLE MEET IN YOUR TOWN?

Unit 2 Lesson 3

Route A route is a path

from one place to another.

Examples of routes are: rivers, roads, railroads, and hiking trails.

Crossroads Crossroads are a

place where two routes cross.

A trader may have built a store at a crossroads to sell supplies to travelers. A restaurant and a hotel may have been built at a crossroads to serve the travelers.

Bridge A bridge is a road

built over a waterway.

Ferry A ferry is a boat

that carries people and goods across a waterway.

Ford A ford is a shallow

place in a waterway that can be crossed by walking, riding, or driving.

London Bridge London is a city in

England that began as a crossing point at a river.

London Bridge crossed the Thames River.

When London Bridge was rebuilt, people in the U.S. built the old bridge and moved it to Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

London Bridge Farmers traded grains,

wool, butter, and pigs for cloth or leather goods carried there by ships.

Doctors lived by London Bridge so they could help the farmers if they were sick.

Today more than 9 million people live in London.

Write a Summary A summary gives

the main ideas of a story in a few words.

A summary focuses on main ideas instead of details.