Venice (a suburb

of Los Angeles)

Yosemite Valley

Yosemite Falls

El Capitan (гора)

Half Dome (гора)

San Francisco (г.)

Napa Valley

Sonoma Valley

The Olympic Peninsula

Puget Sound (залив)

Mount Rainier

Seattle (г.)

Elliot Bay

Bainbridge Island

Whidbey Island

Tillicum Village

Blake Island

Mount McKinley (Denali)

The Kenai Peninsula

Pearl Harbor (г., бух.)

Haleakala (вулк.)

Oahu Island

Lanai Island

Molokai Island

B) tourist attractions and historical places and events:

The French Quarter

Jackson Square

The Cathedral of Saint Louis

The Cabildo

The Presbytere

The Mardi Gras Parade

Sears Tower

The Gateway Arch

Oregon and Santa Fe Trails

Chimney Rock

Yellowstone National Park

Pasco del Rio, or River Walk

The Mission San Antonio de Valero

The Alamo (крепость)

Burbank’s Media City

Walt Disney Studio

Warner Brothers Studio

The NBC Television Studio

Yosemite National Park

Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Park

Conservatory

Arboretum

Japanese Garden

Chinatown

North Beach (one of San Francisco’s districts)

The Castro District

The Mission District

Seattle Space Needle (башня)

Pike Place Market

Denali National Park

U.S.S. Arizona (United States Ship ‘Arizona’)

c) names of people:

Mark Twain

Frank Lloyd Wright

John Colter

General Santa Anna

Davy Crockett

Jim Bowie

J ohn McLaren

d) names of Indian tribes:

the Anasazi – индейцы анасази

the Pueblo - индейцы пуэбло (см.рис.)

the Athabascans - индейцы атабаски

the Salish - индейцы сэлиш, «плоскоголовые»

References:

- a float – специальная низкая платформа на колесах, на которой размещаются декорации и красочные фигуры людей (так называемые float riders (или - krewes (crews)) во время праздников и карнавальных шествий (см.рис.)

- Mardi Gras – Марди-Гра (Вторник на масленой неделе). Праздник в Новом Орлеане и др.городах Луизианы, с красочным карнавалом, балами и парадами с участием ряженых и джаз-оркестров, введенный французскими поселенцами.

- Treaty of Utrecht - Утрехтский Договор (1713)

- Cajun – каджун (a native of Louisiana descended from 18^th-century Acadian immigrants; alteration of Acadian (the French Canadians))

- Creole – креол(ка) (a native-born person of French ancestry in Louisiana and other Gulf States of the US)

- Jambalaya – джамбалайа (a Creole dish made of shrimps, ham, rice, onions, etc.) – см.рис.

- nom de plume – литературный псевдоним. Так, псевдоним Сэмюэла Клеменса - Марк Твен (Mark Twain) возник во времена его плавания по р. Миссисипи в качестве речного лоцмана (riverboat pilot) из жаргона лоцманов, у которых возглас “Mark Twain!” (Отметка два (фута)!) был предупреждением о мели.

- a skyscraper – небоскреб

- to rise like a phoenix from its ashes – восстать как феникс из пепла

- a single-storey prairie-style house – одноэтажный дом в стиле прерий

- to round up (a roundup) – сгонять скот для клеймения

- Stetson hat – «стетсон», ковбойская шляпа (см.рис.)

- adobe houses – глинобитные хижины/постройки в районе Скалистых гор (Rocky Mountains) и на юго-западе страны, при строительстве которых использован кирпич-сырец из необожженной глины (adobe) – см.рис.

- “The moment I saw the brilliant, proud morning shine high up over the deserts of Santa Fe, something stood still in my soul, … and the old world gave way to the new.” - цитата из путевых заметок английского писателя Дэвида Герберта Лоуренса (D.H. Lawrence) о его путешествии по американскому штату Нью-Мексико

- to take excess to extremes – зд. доводить до крайней степени; придавать утрированные формы

- to turn every superlative into an understatement – зд. не поддаваться никакому сравнению

- Golden Gate Park Conservatory and Arboretum – оранжерея и дендрарий, расположенные в городском парке «Золотые Ворота» в Сан-Франциско (см.рис.)

- a winery – винодельня

- Cabernet, Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot White, Chardonnay – Каберне, Совиньон, Совиньон Блан, Пино Вайт, Шардоне (сорта вин)

- “U.S.S. Arizona” - «Аризона» - один из кораблей ВМС США, находившихся в бухте Перл-Харбор (Pearl Harbor) 7 декабря 1941 г. и уничтоженных японской авиацией. В настоящее время останки корабля, находящиеся на дне бухты, превращены в музей воинской славы (U.S.S. Arizona Memorial).

- glacier – ледник, глетчер

- Maui – бог Мауи у жителей Гавайских островов, именем которого назван второй по величине остров Гавайского архипелага (см.рис.)

2. Read the following questions, then watch the video and answer them:

1. Who was New Orleans settled by in 1718? _________________________________________________

What embodies the original charm of the city? ________________________________________________

What architectural styles does the French Quarter combine? _____________________________________

2. How many parades take place during New Orleans carnival season? _____________________________

3. Why were the French Canadians exiled from Arcadia and why did they settle in Louisiana Bayous? ____

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4. What contributed substantially to New Orleans wealth? _______________________________________

Where were the slaves brought from? _______________________________________________________

What goods were shipped out to Europe? ____________________________________________________

5. What did Mark Twain call the Mississippi River? ____________________________________________

6. What contributed to prosperity of Chicago as the major manufacturing centre of the Midwest in the 19^th century? ______________________________________________________________________________

What is Chicago known for today? _________________________________________________________

What did Chicago architects invent? ________________________________________________________

7. Which city did the pioneers heading west in the mid 1800s consider the last bastion of civilization? ______________________________________________________________________________________

What was erected in this city in 1965 to honour its role as the gateway to the west? ___________________

8. When did the largest flood of human migration in the history of the US occur? ____________________

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What did thousands of people, who flooded out of the east, seek for? ______________________________

9. What is the first National Park established in the world? ______________________________________

Why did the Salish and other local tribes believe it to be under an enchanted spell? ___________________

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10. Why did the roving Franciscan Friar name the tiny little village he stumbled upon while following the river San Antonio? ______________________________________________________________________

11. Which cities are at the centre of countless stories of the Old West? _____________________________

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12. What is the flat Texas landscape perforated with? ___________________________________________

What has made the fortunes of many Texans? _________________________________________________

Which things are still associated with Texas? _________________________________________________

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13. Why did the Anasazi build their elaborate dwellings on almost inaccessible cliffs? _________________

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14. What has resulted in extensive research on the Pueblo tribes and restoration of Pueblo ruins? ________

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15. What sort of city is Las Vegas? _________________________________________________________

When does it come alive? _________________________________________________________________

16. Is Death Valley actually lifeless and dull? _________________________________________________

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17. How is Los Angeles often described? ____________________________________________________

18. Where does America’s love affair with the automobile reach its peak? __________________________

19. What can be found in Burbank Media City? _______________________________________________

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20. What free time activities are popular in Venice? Why? _______________________________________

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21. Which National Park turns every superlative into an understatement? ___________________________

22. What is Yosemite Valley walled by? _____________________________________________________

23. What’s San Francisco’s best-known landmark? ____________________________________________

24. What were Chinese men imported to the US during the Gold Rush for? _________________________

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Where did they flood then? _______________________________________________________________

Which district became the largest Chinese community outside of mainland China? ___________________

25. What does each of the wineries in Napa and Sonoma Valleys offer the tourists? ___________________

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26. What kind of forest grows on the Olympic Peninsula? _______________________________________

27. Where is Seattle located? What is it edged by? _____________________________________________

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Why are Seattle’s many parks and green belts green all year round? _______________________________

28. How can any of several charming islands of Puget Sound be reached? __________________________

29. What do the native artists on Blake Island carve? ___________________________________________

What do they create? ____________________________________________________________________

30. What was Denali National Park established for? ____________________________________________

31. What takes place along the Kenai Peninsula? What is this Peninsula famous for? ______________________________________________________________________________________

32. What were Hawaiian Islands formed by? __________________________________________________

33. What lies beneath the transparently clear waters of Pearl Harbor? ______________________________

What does it remind people about? _________________________________________________________

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34. What sort of nation is America? _________________________________________________________

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3. Explain how all these places, names and things are connected with each other:

1. New Orleans – Treaty of Utrecht _________________________________________________________

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2. The Mississippi River - Mark Twain ______________________________________________________

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3. Chicago – the blues ___________________________________________________________________

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4. Sears Tower – the curvature of the earth ___________________________________________________

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5. Frank Lloyd Wright – low single-storey prairie-style houses ___________________________________

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6. John Colter – Yellowstone ______________________________________________________________

7. The Alamo – General Santa Anna – woodsman Davy Crockett and mountain man Jim Bowie _________

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8. signature cowboy boots – bull hide, ostrich and snake skin ____________________________________

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9. The Anasazi – cliff dwellings ____________________________________________________________

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10. The Grand Canyon – the Colorado River __________________________________________________

11. The Gold Rush – transcontinental railroad _________________________________________________

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12. Denali – Mount McKinley _____________________________________________________________

13. U.S.S. Arizona - a surprised attack of Japanese bombers on Pearl Harbor in 1941 _________________

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4. Match the places and events on the left (1-17) to the descriptions on the right (a-q):

(___) 1. Mardi Gras Parade

(___) 2. Chicago

(___) 3. Sears Tower

(___) 4. Yellowstone National Park

(___) 5. Las Vegas

(___) 6. Burbank’s Media City

(___) 7. Walt Disney Studio

(___) 8. Venice

(___) 9. Yosemite National Park

(___) 10. Yosemite Falls

(___) 11. El Capitan

(___) 12. Alaska

(___) 13. Mount McKinley

(___) 14. Haleakala

(___) 15. Pacific Region

(___) 16. Los Angeles

(___) 17. Santa Fe

a. Micky Mouse House

b. the largest known single block of granite in

the world

c. ‘the Golden West’, the land of opposites

d. the most spectacular of New Orleans’

carnivals

e. the highest peak on the North American

Continent

f. the major manufacturing centre of the Mid-

west since the 19^th century

g. the world’s most dramatic geological

spectacle

h. the largest dormant volcano in the world