Stars and stripes. Welcome to the

USA!

Yarlykova O.G. School № 3

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Geography of the USACapital of AmericaStates of AmericaCities of AmericaAmerican Symbols

The USA is the fourth largest country in the world in size and population.

The USA is placed in the middle of the North American continent and washed by the Atlantic Ocean in the east and the Pacific Ocean in the west. It has an area 9400000 square kilometers and is twice as large as all the countries of Europe combined. In the USA live 290 million people. The capital of the USA is Washington,D.C.(District of Columbia)

The USA consists of fifty states. The largest state is Alaska. Hawaii is one of

the smallest states.

Along the Atlantic Coast the land is flat, inland from the coast there are the Appalachian Mountains. In the middle of the continent there is the great Mississippi River. The Mississippi is one of the longest rivers in the world. The north-western part of the USA includes five lakes.

The main rivers are the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Colorado and the Ohio.

The capital of the USA is Washington. It is situated on the Potomac River no far from the Atlantic coast.Wasington is not a very large city. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston , Philadelphia, Detroit, New Orleans are larger.

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 Island. The whole area is very small, that's why the sky-scrapers 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 signs which turn night into day.

• It is the city that never goes to sleep. Buses and sub-way 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 Avenue.

• New York is the largest port in America. More than half the 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. When you come to New York you see lots of cars, big and small, black and yellow, old and modem; you do not see any trees or flowers in the streets, but only cars. You'll see and hear advertisements everywhere. There is no getting away from them. Advertisements fill the newspapers and cover the walls, they are on menu-cards and match-boxes, they are shouted through loud speakers and shown in the cinemas.

The capital of the United States of America was founded in 1791 in the District of Columbia. The capital received the name of Washington — after the name of the commander-in-chief of the American army in the War for Independence who became the first President of the United States. President Washington himself took an active part in choosing the place for the capital. He invited a famous French engineer, Pierre Charles L'Enfant. With a help and advice of Washington, he drew a plan of a city with straight streets running far into a great distance. It was something new in those days.

American Symbols

The flag of the USA

The Statue of Liberty

The Liberty Bell

Homework

1. The longest river in the world (11)

2. The main river of the USA(8)

3. One of the smallest state of America (6)

4. The capital of the USA(10)

5. The famous writer of the United States of America(4,5)

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