The Usa

Andrei Mariuta
Inglés 1ºBCN
29/01/2012
THE USA


INDEX

* Activities Before reading.
- Exercise 1......................................................................... page.3
- Exercise 2......................................................................... page.4

* Activities While reading.
-Exercise Chapters 1 to3....................................................page.5
-Exercise Chapter 4.............................................................page.6
-Exercise Chapters 5 and 6..................................................page.6
-Exercise Chapters 7 and 8..................................................page.7
-Exercise Chapters 9 to 11...................................................page.8
-Exercise Chapter12............................................................page.8
-Exercise Chapters 13 and 14...............................................page.9
-Exercise Chapters 15 to 16..................................................page.10

* Activities After reading.
-Exercise 1............................................................................page.11
-Exercise2............................................................................page.13

* Map of USA...........................................................................page.14

Activities
Before reading

① Here have six famous places. Match the name with the photos.

E
F
a

Grand Canyon
C
B
Mount Rushmore.

Hawaii New York
D
A

F
E
D
B
C
A
Las Vegas San Francisco② Which of these places would you most like to visit? Why?

I would like to visit New York because it is a big city. I would like to know the culture, how people live and especially to learn English. If I could, I would like to do Erasmus in New York, because, for example, I want to study mechanical engineering, and training offered at any university is awesome.
On the other hand, as Ihave mentioned, the culture is totally different. The only thing that I know about that culture is what I have seen in movies : overweight people, cops eating donuts all the time, the obsession with everything big... and I want to live for a moment that.

Activities
While Reading

Read the Chapters 1 to 3. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Rewrite the false sentences with the correctinformation.

1. The first Americans came from Asia. True.
2 There are more Hispanic people than Native American in USA. True.
3. Pocahontas married John Smith. False. /Pocahontas married John Rolfe/
4. The Pilgrim Fathers used slaves to farm the land. False. /The Pilgrim Fathers farm the land themselves/
5. Americans celebrate Thanksgiving in November. True.
6. Men in Boston threwboxes of tea into the sea because they wanted to drink coffee.
False. /Men in Boston threw boxes of tea into the sea because didn't want to pay the British tax on it/
7. The chief of the American army was Thomas Jefferson.
8. The thirteen colonies became the first states of the USA. True
9. The last state to join the United States of America was Utah. False. /The last state to join the UnitedStates of America was Hawaii/

Read Chapter 4. Choose the best question-words for these questions and then answer the questions.

1. Why did South Carolina Decide to leave the United States? Because they wanted to have slaves in their new lands of the west.
2.Who was the South's most famous soldier? The soldier most famous was Robert E. Lee
3.Who farm boy from Kentucky became president?The farm boy from Kentucky was Lincoln.
4.What happened at Gettysburg in 1863? A very important battle was won by the soldiers of the North at Gettysburg.
5.Why did John Wilkes Booth shoot President Lincoln? Because John hated Lincoln and was angry about the war.
5.Which book tells the story of a rich Southern girl? The book is Gone with the Wind.

Read Chapters 5 and 6 and match these...