- •Contents unit 1 Attitudes, Values and Lifestyles
- •Unit 3 Government and the American Citizen
- •Unit 4 The World of American Business
- •Unit 5 American Holidays: History and Customs
- •Unit 1 Attitudes, Values and Lifestyles Тhе Аmеriсаn Character
- •The American Character
- •Regions of the United States
- •Building your vocabulary
- •Understanding idioms and expressions
- •After you read
- •Getting the message
- •Taking words apart
- •Sharing ideas
- •On a personal note
- •American Etiquette
- •Discuss
- •American Etiquette American Attitudes and Good Manners
- •Introduction and Titles
- •Congratulations, Condolences, and Apologies
- •Dining Etiquette
- •Manners between Men and Women
- •Classroom Etiquette
- •Language Etiquette
- •Getting the message
- •Building your vocabulary
- •Understanding idioms and expressions
- •Taking words apart
- •Practising sentence patterns
- •Sharing ideas
- •On a personal note
- •What Americans Consume
- •What Americans Consume
- •Variety – The Spice of Life
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •2. For breakfast, some people have two _______ of toast. For lunch, some have a piece (or _____) of pie. (Use the same word for both answers.)
- •Understanding idioms and expressions
- •Taking words apart
- •Sharing ideas
- •B. On a personal note
- •Unit 2 Cultural Diversity in the u.S. A Nation of Immigrants before you read
- •A Nation of Immigrants
- •Immigration before Independence
- •Immigration from 1790 to 1920
- •Immigration since 1920
- •Today's Foreign-Born Population
- •The Hispanic Population
- •Illegal Aliens
- •The Many Contributions of Immigrants
- •After you read
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •3. Understanding idioms and expressions
- •4. Taking words apart
- •3. Germany ___________ 9. Poland __________
- •B. Word parts
- •5. Practising sentence patterns
- •Sharing ideas
- •On a personal note
- •The African – American
- •Slavery-From Beginning to End
- •The Civil Rights Movement
- •Contributions - Past and Present
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •3. Understanding idioms and expressions
- •4. Taking words apart
- •5. Sharing ideas
- •On a Personal Note
- •Religion in American Life
- •Discuss
- •Religion in American Life
- •Religion and Government
- •Are Americans Religious?
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •6. A religious _______ is a major division or branch of a particular religion. (Smaller groups are called sects.)
- •3. Sharpening reading skills
- •4. Understanding idioms and expressions
- •Taking words apart
- •Sharing ideas
- •Unit 3 Government and the American Citizen The Constitution and the Federal System before you read
- •The Constitution and the Federal System The Constitution
- •The Amendments to the Constitution
- •The Federal System
- •After you read
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •3. Sharpening reading skills.
- •Example:
- •4. Understanding idioms and expressions
- •5. Taking words apart
- •6. Practising sentence patterns
- •Example
- •Examples
- •Sharing ideas
- •On a personal note
- •Choosing the Nation`s President before you read
- •Choosing the Nation`s President Selecting the Candidates
- •The Campaign
- •The Election
- •The Inauguration
- •After you read
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •Sharpening reading skills.
- •Understanding idioms and expressions
- •3. Candidates need to _________ , in other words, get people to contribute to their campaign.
- •Taking words apart Compound words
- •Practising sentence patterns
- •Sharing ideas
- •Citizenship: Its Obligations and Privileges before you read
- •Citizenship: Its Obligations and Privileges
- •Responsibilities of Citizens
- •Responsibilities of All u.S. Residents
- •Responsibilities of the Government
- •After you read
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •Sharpening reading skills.
- •Understanding idioms and expressions
- •Taking words apart
- •Example
- •Practising sentence patterns
- •Sharing ideas
- •Unit 4 The World of American Business
- •Capitalism and the American Economy
- •Before you read
- •Discuss
- •Capitalism and the American Economy The Basic Principles of Capitalism
- •Stocks and Bonds
- •The Cashless Society
- •Recent Trends in Business
- •After you read
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •3. Sharpening reading skills. Words in context Underline the meaning of the italicized word.
- •4. Understanding idioms and expressions
- •5. Taking words apart
- •6. Practising sentence patterns
- •Singular
- •7. Sharing ideas
- •On a personal note
- •The American Worker before you read
- •The American Worker
- •The Role of Labor Unions
- •Protection for the American Worker
- •Living Standards
- •After you read
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •Sharpening reading skills.
- •Understanding idioms and expressions
- •Taking words apart
- •Practising sentence patterns
- •Sharing ideas
- •High-Tech Communications
- •The Telephone and Associated Devices
- •The Internet
- •The Future of Technology
- •After you read
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •3. Sharpening reading skills. Making Inferences
- •Understanding idioms and expressions
- •Taking words apart
- •Example
- •Add the Prefixes Change the Prefixes
- •Practising sentence patterns
- •Examples
- •Example
- •Sharing ideas
- •Unit 5 American Holidays: History and Customs
- •Christopher Columbus: a Controversial Hero
- •Preparations for a Great Journey
- •Four Important Voyages
- •Why ‘America’?
- •After you read
- •Getting the message
- •Building your vocabulary
- •Sharpening reading skills.
- •Understanding idioms and expressions
- •Taking words apart a. Names of places and groups of people
- •Examples
- •B. Compound Words
- •Sharing ideas
- •On a personal note
- •Thanksgiving and Native Americans before you read Discuss
- •Thanksgiving and Native Americans
- •After you read
- •1. Getting the message
- •Building your vocabulary
- •Sharpening reading skills.
- •B. Context Clues
- •Understanding idioms and expressions
- •Taking words apart
- •6. Practising sentence patterns
- •7. Sharing ideas
- •On a personal note
- •Two Presidents and Two Wars before you read
- •Two Presidents and Two Wars
- •George Washington
- •Abraham Lincoln
- •After you read
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •3. Sharpening reading skills.
- •4. Understanding idioms and expressions
- •Taking words apart Look-alike words
- •6. Practising sentence patterns a. The Emphatic Past Tense
- •7. Sharing ideas
- •On a personal note
- •Four Patriotic Holidays
- •Before you read Discuss
- •Four Patriotic Holidays
- •Memorial Day
- •Veterans Day
- •Independence Day
- •Flag Day
- •After you read
- •1. Getting the message
- •2. Building your vocabulary
- •3. Understanding idioms and expressions
- •4. Taking words apart
- •Practising sentence patterns
- •Sharing ideas
- •On a personal note
- •Appendix a
- •Religious Holidays
- •Holidays to Express Love
- •Appendix b Martin Luther King's “I Have a Dream” Speech
- •Appendix c Barack Obama's Victory Speech
- •Appendix d The Declaration of Independence
- •Appendix e The Bill of Rights
- •Amendment VI
Sharpening reading skills.
A. Making inferences Mark each statement below true (T) or false (F).
_____ 1. Delegates at a national political convention belong to the same party.
_____ 2. When a political convention comes to town, many businesses make money.
_____ 3. The presidential candidate is expected to accept the party's platform.
_____ 4. Being a delegate to a political convention could give a person a headache.
_____ 5. A lot of compromises are made during a political convention.
_____ 6. When delegates choose their party's presidential candidate, their main concern is to choose someone who will be a good president.
_____ 7. When the convention votes, the candidate who wins the majority of the delegates' votes becomes the presidential candidate.
_____ 8. The candidate with the second-largest number of delegate votes becomes the party's vice presidential candidate.
_____ 9. This reading suggests that the U.S. needs more political parties.
B. What does the chart say?
Answer these questions based on the chart of popular and electoral votes.
1. In 2000, which of the four listed states gave Bush more popular votes?
________________________________________________________
2. Who got more popular votes in these four states combined, Gore or Bush?
________________________________________________________
3. Who got more electoral votes in these four states combined?
________________________________________________________
4. The chart says that Gore got all 11 of Wisconsin's electoral votes? Why?
________________________________________________________
5. Why did Gore win more electoral votes in these four states even though Bush
won more popular votes?
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Understanding idioms and expressions
A. Complete each sentence with one of the expressions from the list.
cast ballots lame duck
Electoral College raise money
exit polls roll call
in exchange for run for office
in return for running mate
1. At the conventions, each state announces how its delegates vote when a(n) _________ is taken.
2. Political candidates ________ . They try to get elected to political jobs.
3. Candidates need to _________ , in other words, get people to contribute to their campaign.
4. The __________ officially elects the president of the United States.
5. __________ are surveys conducted on Election Day to find out how people voted.
6. Another way of saying that people vote is to say that they _______ .
7. Two of the expressions listed have the same meaning. They are ______ and _________ .
8. In the last few months of his presidency, Bill Clinton was a(n) __________ president because a new president had been elected and he was leaving office.
9. In 1984, a woman ran for vice president. She was the __________ of Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate for president.
B. Discuss the meaning of the following expressions.
quiet down get down to work