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IX. Imagine you are American students. You are to tell school students from Russia about the USA. Make the reports about the geographical position, the climate and industry of your country. Use additional information, maps, cards and other things to make
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IX. Imagine you are American students. You are to tell school students from Russia about the USA. Make the reports about the geographical position, the climate and industry of your country. Use additional information, maps, cards and other things to make the presentation more interesting and spectacular.
CONVERSATION
Read the dialogue and say if people should help the newcomers to find the way they don’t know.
– Excuse me, I’m a newcomer in the city. Can you help me?
– What can I do for you?
– Is this the way to George Washington University?
– Yes. Go straight ahead for two blocks and then turn right. You can’t miss it (1).
– Thank you very much. I also would like to know the way to the National Gallery. Is there a bus from here to the place?
– No, there isn’t. Take bus 60 to Pennsylvania Avenue and then transfer to the R2 (2).
– And one more question.
– Sure.
– How to get to the Lincoln Memorial?
– You can get there by subway. There’s a subway station over there (3).
– Thanks a lot. You were so helpful!
I. Act out the dialogue using substitutional words.
SW 1. Take bus 19 to Massachusetts Avenue and then change for subway train.
It’s about a three minute walk from here.
It’s three blocks north.
2. You’d better get there by subway.
Cross the street and take a number 37 tram. It’s about four stop lights from
here.
You’d better take a taxi.
3. Go straight ahead. It’s on the right hand side.
Take bus 19 to Peace Avenue and then change for subway train.
Take tram 44. You should get off at the third tram stop.
II. Make up your own dialogue according to the following situation: a foreign tourist has come to your native town. He (or she) would like to make a tour around the town. Help the newcomer to find the way to the most popular sights of the town.
Text II
Cities of the USA
Read the text and say what American city is the most interesting to your opinion.
The largest cities of the USA are New York, Chicago, Los Angeles.
Washington is the capital of the USA. The city is situated on the Potomac River in the District of Columbia. It is not a typical American city. Washington is mostly an administrative city without much industry. It has no skyscrapers and nobody will build a house higher than the Capitol. There are a lot of large public gardens, parks where you can sit in the sun, and wide streets like Pennsylvania Avenue, which runs to the foot of Capitol Hill. Every four years it plays the role of a ceremonial way for a president, connecting the White House and the Capitol.
Washington, DC meets millions of tourists from different countries and all parts of the USA. They come to see the Lincoln Memorial, the White House and the Capitol. The Capitol, where the Congress meets, is a very high and beautiful building with white marble columns. It is in the very centre of the city. Not far from the Capitol there is the Library of Congress. It holds five million books. The White House, the residence of the President, is the oldest public building in Washington and one of the most beautiful. The other popular sights of the city are Jefferson Memorial and Kennedy Center.
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New York is one of the largest cities in the world. Its population is over 11 million people. New York is an industrial and cultural centre of the country. Most business is centered in Manhattan in Manhattan Island. The whole area is very small, that’s why the skyscrapers were invented in New York and, especially, in Wall Street. Wall Street is a narrow street with big houses, but it is well known all over the world as the busiest street in the USA. People do business there.
There are two more world-famous streets – Broadway and Fifth Avenue. Broadway is the centre of the theatres and night life. It is known as «The Great White Way» because of the electric lights which turn night into day. It is the city that never goes to sleep. Buses and subway run all night. There are many drugstores and restaurants which never close their doors. There are cinemas with films that start at midnight.
Fifth Avenue is the great shopping, hotel, and club street. If you go along this avenue, you come to Harlem, where the black people of New York live, the coloured workers, teachers, doctors and musicians.
New York is the largest port in America. More than half trade of the United States goes through this city.
There are many places of interest in New York. They are: the Statue of Liberty, the United Nations Building, Empire State Building, Columbia University, City Hall, New York Public Library and others.
Chicago is the second largest city of the country after New York. It is the largest industrial centre of the USA.
There is more air traffic at Chicago International Airport than in any other airport in the country, and Chicago is very important for its shipping industry because it is on Lake Michigan. The meat–packing industry is larger in it than in many other cities in the United States. Although Chicago doesn’t have so many skyscrapers as New York City, it does have the tallest skyscraper in the world, the Sears Building.
Another large city of the USA is Boston – the first city built on the Atlantic coast of America. It is an important port and a financial and cultural centre. It has three universities.
Los Angeles, in California, is a centre of modern industries. Not far from Los Angeles is Hollywood, the centre of the US film business.
Notes:
the foot of Capitol Hill – подножие Капитолийского Холма
a marble column – мраморная колонна
to turn night into day – превращать день в ночь
a drugstore – аптека
shipping industry – судостроение
a coast – побережье
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