2. Vocabulary focus 1

Complete the gaps. Use each word in the list below once

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1. Mickey Mouse and Pluto __________ through the park to greet visitors while the familiar tunes played through the ____________.

2. It could only have happened in California, home to the ________ industry and the fastest-growing state in the nation since the ______________ of the military aviation industry during World War II.

3. ABC-Paramount held 35 percent of the __________ in the Disneyland __________, and it had provided start-up ________ and guarantees of $5 million.

4. Disneyland was a giant ________. Disney __________ the advice of his bankers, his business manager brother, and most _________ investors to _________ ahead and build his dream.

5. “No company has ever had such a _______________ influence on American _____________,” commented Gerald Celente, ______________ of Trends Journal.

3. Vocabulary focus 2

Find words or phrases in the text which mean the same as the following:

1. values or traditions passed from earlier generations

2. an activity, something at which one works or gives one’s time

3. something lent, especially a sum of money

4. one of the equal parts forming a business company’s capital and entitling the holder to a proportion of the profits

5. to give someone a claim on (property) as security for payment of a debt or loan

6. to seek to persuade (a legislator) to support one’s cause

7. interaction of discrete agencies (as industrial firms), agents (as drugs) or conditions such that the total effect is greater than the sum of the individual effects

8. a measurement such as length, breadth, thickness, area, etc.

9. a country’s annual income from taxes, duties, etc., used for paying public expenses

10. the branch of medicine dealing with the diseases and care of old people.

D. Vocabulary focus 3

Give your explanations of ten different words or phrases from the text for other students in your group to find

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WALT DISNEY AND AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT

PART 2

A. Understanding the main points

Decide whether the following statements are true or false.

True False

1. Mickey mouse faced down the Chinese dragon when the world’s two most inscrutable empires staged a curious power game.

2. The Baptists’ Ethics and Liberty Commission listed thirty-two reasons “to beware the Magic Kingdom.”

3. Disney learned something of business, obtaining a stock of German steel helmets.

4. The first film, Plane Crazy, featured Mickey as driver.

5. Popular culture and film studies were just beginning to be topics of scholarly study when Disney brought them into life.

B. Vocabulary focus 1

Complete the gaps. Use each word in the list below once

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1. Mickey Mouse faced down the Chinese _________ when the world’s two most __________empires staged a ________ power game.

2. We learned after hard lessons that the _________ wants its ____________.

3. This ___________ drive to ____________ new characters and new styles was driven by Disney’s early lesson, from the _______ of Oswald the Rabbit, of the need to _________.

4. It became a ___________ phenomenon, the ________ for newspaper ____________ and political speeches, and the shared experience of ___________ 100 million Americans.

5. It brought in the _________ that was needed for the next great project.