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Interesting Facts About United States

#1: National Facts

· The National bird of the United States is The Bald Eagle.

· Rose is the national flower.

 

· #2: Cartoons & Movies

· Hollywood, America is considered to be the movie capital of the world. Cinema has grown multi fold from its early days.

· Walt Disney was a ruthless business man, and was rumored to be anti Semitic and otherwise racist.

· Mickey Mouse’s original name, Mortimer mouse was thought pompous by Walt Disney’s wife. She had suggested the name Mickey as she thought it was cuter.

 

· #3: Food Habits

· There are some very interesting facts about America related to the food habits of Americans, here they are:

· Cars in America have witnessed almost 20% of the meals eaten.

· 31% of the people consume packaged food than fresh food.

· One fourth of the population eats some kind of fast food every day.

· Americans spend 10% of their disposable income on food every year.

 

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2. Answer the questions below:

1) What is stereotype?

2) Are stereotypes usually accurate?

3) Do you think there are any stereotypes that are good?

4) Do movies show different nationalities as stereotypes?

5) What stereotypes do Hollywood, Bollywood and Hong Kong create?

6) What are the stereotypes of men and women?

7) Do gender stereotypes annoy you?

 

Read some stereotypes below and 5 stereotypes of your own. Comment on each stereotype if you agree or disagree with it

 

Americans are obsessed with celebrities. In the United States, celebrities are on just about every cover of every magazine, every tabloid, and are hired by big companies to advertise their products. There is a certain level of infatuation among Americans when it comes to celebrities. While some Americans may have unhealthy obsessions with their favorite pop star or actress, there are plenty of Americans who could care less about celebrity gossip, etc.

 

Americans are addicted to plastic surgery. In 2010, there were 9,336,814 plastic surgery many individuals who have plastic surgery once, are likely to have other things on their body “fixed” as well. On the other hand, there are plenty of Americans who are just as original as the day they were born.procedures performed in the United States. That’s a lot of plastic surgery! But the truth is,

Ukrainians drink horilka, eat borsch and salo.A lot of nationalities think that Ukrainians drink almost every day, and they always have borsch and salo on their table.

 

Let’s travel throughout the US!

Look at the photos below. Which places do you recognize? Try to give the names of the places, their location and history

 

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Keystone, South Dakota

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota Sioux name: Six Grandfathers) near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865).The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km²) and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is visited by nearly three million people each year that come to marvel at the majestic beauty of the Black Hills of South Dakota and learn about the birth, growth, development and preservation of the country. From the history of the first inhabitants to the diversity of America today, Mount Rushmore brings visitors face to face with the rich heritage we all share.

BROADWAY

New York, New York

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, are theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in the New York City borough of Manhattan.^[1] Along with London's West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.

The Broadway Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City. According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold approximately US$1.27 billion worth of tickets in the 2013-14 season, an increase of 11.4% from US$1.139 billion in the 2012-13 season. Attendance in 2013-14 stood at 12.21 million, a 5.5% increase from the 2012-13 season's 11.57 million.

 

STATUE OF LIBERTY

New York, New York

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a ccolossal neoclassical on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas

, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.

WASHINGTON D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any U.S. state.

GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

San Francisco, California

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the mile-wide, three-mile-long channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County, bridging both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. The bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

 

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK

Arizona

Grand Canyon National Park is the United States ' 15th oldest national park. Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, the park is located in Arizona. The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. The park covers 1,217,262 acres (492,608 ha) of unincorporated area in Coconino and Mohave counties.

Answer the questions using the information from the text above:

1) What does the abbreviation D.C. mean?

2) What monument is called Six Grandfathers?

3) How many theaters make up the Broadway Theater?

4) Which monument was presented to the Americans?

5) What is located along the Potomac River?

6) Which place in America is considered to be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World?

7) Which monument includes a broken chain on its bottom?

8) What tourist attraction is located near Lincoln Center?

9) Name the presidents who’s heads are carved on the Mount Rushmore

Team 1

To carve, to marvel at, to bring smb. suspension bridge, internationally recognized symbol, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, torch, evoke, a federal district

Team 2

Face to face with, diversity, heritage, borough, to be widely considered to do smth., attendance, to dedicate smth to smth.\smb., central feature, unincorporated area

 

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