American music and theatre

Today's topic is devoted to American music and theatre. 

Work with the texts and make sure you know all the words.

• picture 1
• picture 2
• picture 3
• picture 4
• picture 5 

Complete the Word list and take a picture of it along with the answers to the test.( p.255) 

Famous cities of the USA

Work with these pictures, read the paragraph and be ready to answer the questions.

• picture 1
• picture 2
• picture 3
• picture 4
• picture 5 

Start with working with the new words.
After that watch the presentations on this blog, connected with the biggest cities of the USA.
Answer the questions below the presentations. '
And the last. In the previous work you were given a test to do.
I still want to see your results and the pictures of the table "Political System"

The general facts

Work with this test , too. Use your .planeta107.zp.ua account to do it. Watch the type of the question!!!!There will be some more later. 

The questions and the table

Work with these links, please

• link 1
• link 2
• link 3
• link 4
• link 5

The first link contains the set of new words, which you are expected to know. 

The second one - is the text itself- the brief description of the political system.
The third link is the set of questions for you to answer orally. 
The fourth contains a table, which you are expected to fill in and copy into your copybooks, take a picture of it and send it to me. 
The last link is a set of sentences for you to read and complete orally. 

As a homework you are asked to watch the videos about the American presidents on this blog ( find them using the tag - Meet the USA - as a usual. ) . There are the questions - answer them orally.

 Thank you. Good luck.

Legislative branch

Watch these funny but informative videos inorder to get some general idea of the topic - The Political System of The USA. Take some notes and get ready to answer the questions. There will also be a test. Tomorrow you'll be given the next topic to work with.

Judicial Power

The President of The USA

The US political System

             

U.S. geography

Geography of the USA - physical geography

Geography of the USA - regions

Geography of the USA - location

For Tuesday

For our next lesson would you be so kind to revise the set of activities for the previous lesson, including video and the words for the dictation. In addition to this make sure that you are familiar with the information form §7 ( p.40-42 - you 've got the pictures of these pages). And finally make sure you can show all the objects mentioned at the previous lesson, on the map of The USA. 

Before the contact

Watch this video and answer the following questions

• What do the dates 1776 and 1492 mean? 
• How long is the history of the Native Americans?
• Why was it possible for the people to come to America from Asia during the Ice Age?
• Is it possible now?
• What was united by the spit of the land exposed?
• What was the number of the inhabitaits in the Americas before the contact?
• What important agricultural event happen in Mexico around 5 000 BC?
• How did it change their lifestyle?
• What were the Natives originally engaged in?
• What does the term settled agriclture mean?
• How did the climate influence the lifestyle? Give some examples.
• How did the societies in dry areas adapt to the conditions?
• Did they provide agriculture in the Great Plains region?Why?
• What did they hunt?
• What's a teepee?
• What were the benefits of teepees?
• How did Pueblos live?
• Where did farming flourish?
• What became possible for these peoples?
• What does a term three-sister farming mean?
• What made the density of population on the eastern coast relatively high?

The early history of the USA

This card is for you to get ready for our March lesson. The pages are from the blue Countrystudies textbook ( new edition) . There are pictures of these pages at your disposal. If you still need them, come at any time and take a picture again.
In addition to this watch the videos about volumbus again and get ready to answer the questions. 

The puzzling mystery of Vinland Map

in addition to this one 

Disaster

1. Where did the accident happen?
2. What area was polluted?
3. Name the company, responsible for it.
4. How much oil got into the water every hour?'
5. Were there any similar disasters before?
6. What states got their coastlines contaminated?
7. What fact can prove that the area of the contamination was huge?
8.  What figures can prove that the loss of oil was great as well?
9. Did the company try to keep the situation in secret?
10. Why was is such a challenge to find the solution?
11. Did the first attempt save the situation?
12. How was leakage finally stopped?
13. How long did it take?
14. Was it an easy engineering solution?
15. What were the economical results?
16. What changed in the legal issues after the accident?
17. How did the rules of offshore drilling change?

Barbie

The most popular toy of the USA