The USA - Střední průmyslová škola textilní

Reálie anglicky
mluvících zemí
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Datum vytvoření: 2012/2013
Autor: Mgr. Hana Svrčková
Škola: Střední průmyslová škola textilní, Liberec, Tyršova1, příspěvková organizace
Reálie anglicky mluvících zemí
8. The USA – Basic information
Výukové cíle:
 Prohloubení základních znalostí o Spojených státech
 žáci dovedou hovořit o národních symbolech USA a
orientují se v politickém systému země
Metodické poznámky:
 na závěr připravené úlohy k diagnostice dosažení VC
 řešení kontrolní úlohy se zobrazí na samostatném
snímku
What do you know about
the country?
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What is typically American?
What do you know about the people?
Which places have you heard about?
Who is the president of the USA?
How many people are there?
What is the capital city?
America or the USA?
• The USA lie in North America (continent)
• It borders Canada in the north and Mexico in the
south
• Its capital is Washington D.C.
• Consult the map now!
What are the USA?
• The USA = The United States of America
• It is a democratic federal republic consisting of 50
states
• Consult the map and name some of the states!
The Flag
• It is called The StarSpangled Banner or Stars
and Stripes.
• It consists of 13 red and
white stripes and 50 white
stars in a blue rectangle.
• The stripes represent the
13 colonies which
founded the USA and the
stars represent the 50
states of the USA.
50 states of the USA
The people
 “a nation of nations” (Walt Whitman)
 the third-largest population in the world 250,000,000 inhabitants
 The original inhabitants were the Indians – today
called Native Americans.
 America has been called “a melting pot” –
a place where people from all over the
world meet and mix with other cultures
The melting pot
 the first white settlers were the British
 West Africans were brought as slaves, today about 12
% of population are Afro-Americans
 Today, there are large Hispanic communities,
especcialy in Mexico and California
 Asian-Americans have been the major immigrant
group since the 1960s, come from Laos, Taiwan, the
Philippines, Korea etc
The political system 1.
• The USA are a democratic federation of 50 states
• The basic of the political system is the Constitution
from 1787
• It cannot be changed, only amended, e.g. the
Fifteenth Amendment (dodatek) gave the black
Americans the right to vote
• There is a federal government in Washington D.C. and
the 50 states have their own governments, too.
The political system 2.
 The legislative body is the Congress. It has two
chambers - the House of Representatives and the
Senate.
 The executive power lies in the hands of the President
and his Cabinet
 the judicial branch – the most important federal court
is the Supreme Court
 two main political parties are the Democrats (more
liberal) and the Republicans (conservative)
The Congress and The Capitol
The President, the White House
The Anthem
• The Star-Spangled Banner has been used an a
national anthem since 1931
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O say can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Comprehension check
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What is the full name of the USA?
What is the national capital?
Who is the head of state?
What is the population of the USA?
What type of state are the USA politically?
What is the national anthem called?
What does the US flag look like?
Answer key
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The United States of America
Washington D.C.
The president
300,000,000 people
Democratic federal republic
Star-Spangled Banner
50 stars and 13 stripes
Použitá literatura
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BORSBEY, Janet, SWAN, Ruth: Crossing Cultures, reálie anglicky mluvících
zemí. 1. vyd. Dubicko: INFOA. ISBN 978-80-7240-683-8
BRENDLOVÁ, Světla: Reálie anglicky mluvících zemí, 2. dopl. Vyd. Plzeň: FRAUS.
ISBN 80-7238-307-8
CUNNINGHAM, Sarah, MOOR, Peter: New Cutting Edge Intermediate
Student‘s Book. 3. vyd. 2007. Harlow: PEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED. ISBN – 13:
978-0-582-82517-8
Zdroje obrázků
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/The_White_House.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/The_Capitol_b
y_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG/640px-The_Capitol_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Map_of_USA_
with_state_names.svg/800px-Map_of_USA_with_state_names.svg.png