Лекция: B. Answer the questions on the text

UNIT 1 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

Lead-in

1. The official name of the country is the United States of America. What other names of the country do you know?

2. What were the reasons for which people from other countries started to immigrate to North America?

A. Vocabulary development

Find in the text the English equivalents for the following words and phrases

1. отличительная характеристика

2. влиять, оказывать влияние

3. ошибочно полагая

4. заселить, обжить территорию, осесть где-то

5. против воли

6. иметь много общего

7. снизиться

8. всего

9. избавиться

10. в целом, в основном

11. преуспевать

12. в условиях, когда; при каких-то условиях

13. добровольные мигранты

14. широко распространенный

15. иметь равные возможности

16. столкнуться с проблемами

17. принять закон

18. третий по величине

19. жить в резервациях

20. бедность

21. покончить с рабством

22. происхождение

23. плавильный котел

24. безработица

25. принять что-то

26. привезти на работу

B. Answer the questions on the text

1. How big is the population of the USA?

2. What is the most distinctive characteristic of the USA?

3. Why did Walt Whitman once called the USA “a nation of nations”?

4. Who are Native Americans? Where did they originally come from?

5. How many Indians live in the USA today? What are their major problems?

Where do most of them live?

6. When did immigrants from Britain start coming to America? What part of the country did they settle in?

7. Were immigrants from Africa willing immigrants?

8. When were they brought to America? What for?

9. When did slavery end in the USA?

10. Do people still have prejudice against African-Americans or are they treated as equals?

11. Which part of the country has mostly German and Scandinavian influence?

12. When did immigration from Northern and Western Europe begin to increase?

13. When and did most immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe come to the USA? Why did immigration from Poland, Greece and Russia gradually slow down in 1920-s?

14. What is one of the fastest growing groups in the US population?

15. Who is called Hispanics? What are the three biggest groups of Hispanics?

16. What part of the world did most immigrants come to the USA in the 1980-s?

17. The USA used to be called a melting pot. More recently they started to call it a mosaic. Why?