This majestic building is the Supreme Court. This is where the laws are interpreted by the highest judges in the United States.
The White House is the beautiful home of every President of the United States, except the first president, George Washington. This is the oldest public building in Washington, D.C., and has the most famous address in the United States — 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The White House consists of 132 rooms. It is open for tours from 10:00 a.m. to noon. Tickets are available at 8:00 a.m. (first come, first served). McPherson Square Metro Station.
The tallest building in Washington, D.C., and the most famous building in the United States, because this is where laws are made, the Capitol, is surrounded by a beautiful garden with many trees and flowers. You can tour it daily from 9:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Capitol South Metro Station.
This monument was built in honor of George Washington. It is 555 feet tall and provides a panoramic view of Washington, D.C., via elevator. It is open daily, 8:00 a.m. to midnight. Last elevator ride is at 11:45 p.m. The Washington Monument is located south of the White House. Smithsonian Metro Station.
The National Mall is the area between the Capitol and the Washington Monument. Bike-ways. footpaths, information kiosks, and refreshment stands are located on the Mall. Nine of the Smithsonian museums and the Smithsonian Information Center are located here. The museums contain many historical objects and great works of art.
castle ['kQ:s(q)l] - замок
to provide [prq'vaId] - снабжать, обеспечивать
majestic [mq'dZestIk] - величественный
law [lO:] - закон
to interpret [In'tE:prIt] –толковать, объяснять
visitor’s guide ['vIzItq] [gaId] - путеводитель
except [Ik'sept] – кроме, за исключением
to consist of [kqn'sIst] – состоять из
tour [tVq] - экскурсия
to be surrounded [sq'raVnd] - окруженный
panoramic ["pxnq'rxmIk] – панорамный
via elevator ['vaIq] ['elIveItq] – на лифте
bikeway ['baIkweI] –велосипедная дорожка
footpath ['fVtpQ:T] - пешеходная дорожка
refreshment stand [rI'freSmqnt] [stxnd] - буфет
New York City!
Hi! My name is Debbie. I am a New Yorker. That means that I live in New York City. Manhattan is the main island of New York City and that's where I live. I love music. We have a lot of theaters in New York City, where musicals are performed. This is Broadway. There are more than thirty theaters here! You can see a different performance every day! My favorite musical is called "Cats."
Times Square is the center of the theater district. The lights from all the theaters and advertisements are very bright. On New Year's Eve, December 31, crowds of people stand in Times Square and wait for midnight. At midnight everyone shouts, "Happy New Year!" to everyone else.
Central Park is used by thousands of New Yorkers and visitors every day. Here you will see families walking their dogs and young people riding their bikes and roller-skating. Do you like to roller-skate? I do! You can also see baseball and soccer games here. Some people come here just to rest. They walk, sit in the sun, listen to music, or go to the zoo.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the most famous art museum in New York. It has great art collections from all over the world. It's located in Central Park.
This is how New York City looks at night. Can you see the Statue of Liberty? It was built in New York Harbor in 1886. It was a gift from the people of France. About 12 million immigrants passed through New York when they came to America. The first thing they saw after their long trip was the Statue of Liberty, America's symbol of freedom.
This is the Guggenhiem Museum. Can you say Guggenheim ten times? It has one of the world's finest collections of modern and contemporary art. This museum was designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Look at its shape!
This is the Empire State Building. It is the most famous building in the world. It's very tall.
New Words:
musical ['mju:zIk(q)l] – музыкальное представление, мюзикл
performance [pq'fO:mqns] - представление
advertisement, ad [qd'vE:tIsmqnt] - реклама
to walk a dog – прогуливать собаку
to ride a bike [raId], [baIk] – кататься на велосипеде
art [Q:t] – художественный, искусство
Metropolitan Museum of Art ["metrq'pPlItn] – музей искусства «Метрополитен»
Statue of Liberty ['stxtSu:], ['lIbqtI] – Статуя Свободы
symbol of freedom ['sImb(q)l], ['fri:dqm] – символ свободы
fine [faIn] – изящный, тонкий
the fine arts – изобразительное искусство
contemporary [kqn'temp(q)rqrI] - современный
statistics [stq'tIstIks] - статистика, статистические данные
how something looks = what something looks like – как это выглядит
1. Where can you go to see a musical in New York?
2. What is there to do in Central Park?
3. What is America's symbol of freedom?
4. Where do New Yorkers go to celebrate New Year's Eve?
5. How many floors does the Empire State Building have?
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston is the 5th largest city in the United States. Only New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston are larger. It is located on the Atlantic Ocean. Boston Harbor has always been an important port. The Charles River runs along the north side of the city and separates Boston from another well known city, Cambridge.
Boston is the capital of Massachusetts, one of the fifty states and one of the original thirteen states. Massachusetts, along with Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, Jew Hampshire and Maine, makes up the region called New England. It has this name because it was originally settled by people from England.
If you like sports, you will love Boston. It is home of the Boston Celtics, a baskeball team, the Boston Bruins, an ice hockey team, and the Boston Red Sox, a basketball team. The Celtics and the Bruins play in the Boston Garden, which is a large indoor stadium. The Red Sox play at Fenway Park, an outdoor baseball field. Also, the oldest running race in the United States, the Boston Marathon, is held in Boston each April. Boston is also home of one of the best Symphonies in the United States - the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Symphony usually performs in Symphony Hall on Massachusetts Avenue. They also perform at Tangle wood, a park in Western Massachusetts. The Boston Ballet is also very good and each year presents Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" at Christmas.
Some of the best known universities are located in Boston. The oldest university in the United States, Harvard University, was founded in 1636. It is located in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is also located in Cambridge. There is also Boston University, Boston College and many others. Because there are so many universities and young students, many people call Boston a "College Town".
Boston has many nice parks. The Public Garden is one of my favorites. It has a pond where you can ride on boats in the shape of swans. They're called Swan Boats. It's also home of a famous statue based on the book Make Way for Ducklings. It is a statue of a mother duck leading her baby ducklings safely from the duck pond. A replica of this statue is in the Novodevichy Park in Moscow and was given as a gift by the wife of an American President to the children of Russia.
There is also a very nice park along both sides of the Charles River. One park is called the Esplanade. Every day, you can find people running, roller skating, cycling and walking. There is a sailing club where you can take lessons on how to operate a sail boat.
In addition to all of this, Boston is one of America's oldest cities. It was founded in 1630, only 10 years after the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock (which is only 60 miles south of Boston). That's 73 years before St. Petersburg was founded!
Boston was one of the key cities in the years before and during the Revolutionary War. In 1770, the Boston Massacre occurred in which British soldiers shot and killed five American demonstrators on the Boston Common. In 1773, to protest a new set of taxes on tea, a group of Americans dressed up like Indians, climbed aboard a ship full of tea and threw it all overboard into Boston Harbor. This was known as the Boston Tea Party. In 1775, British soldiers marched from Boston to the towns of Lexington and Concord to investigate rumors of guns being stored there. The Americans were ready because a well-known silversmith, named Paul Revere, rode on horseback ahead of the British warning the local militia, known as Minutemen (because they could be ready to defend their town in less than a minute), that "The British were coming".
Today, you can see many historical sites by following the Freedom Trail. The Freedom Trail is marked by a red brick line that runs through the city streets of Boston connecting 16 historic sites. It starts at the Boston Common and the State House and goes by the Paul Revere house, Faneuil Hall (a great marketplace throughout Boston's history), the USA Constitution (a ship used in the War of 1812 with the British) and Bunker Hill Monument (site of a 1775 Revolutionary War battle).
Paul Revere
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town tonight,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,
One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm".
That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation a-riding that night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Landlord's Tale:
Paul Revere's Ride". Tales of a Wayside Inn
Boston has been the final home of many immigrants to the United States. In the 18th and early 20th centuries, many Italian and Irish immigrants moved to Boston. The North End of Boston is a very interesting Italian neighborhood with many Italian restaurants and stores. South Boston is where many Irish immigrants settled. Every year, South Boston hosts the St. Patrick's Day parade. Today, many other nationalities from such places as Asia, South America and Eastern Europe are also represented in Boston.
New words:
separate ['sepqreIt] – отделять
original [q'rIdZIn(q)l] – первоначальный
to make up [meIk] [Ap] – составлять, комплектовать
indoor ['IndO:] – находящийся внутри помещения
outdoor ["aVt'dO:] – находящийся вне помещения (открытый) на открытом воздухе
running race ['rAnIN] [reIs] –состязания, соревнования в беге
symphony ['sImfqnI] – симфония
Symphony Orchestra ['sImfqnI] ['O:kIstrq] - симфонический оркестр
«Nutcracker» ['nAt"krxkq] - «Щелкунчик»
duckling ['dAklIN] -утенок
rumor ['ru:mq] –слух, молва
gun [gAn] – орудие, ружье
to store [stO:] – запасать, хранить
silversmith ['sIlvqsmIT] – серебряных дел мастер
to warn [wO:n] – предупреждать
militia [mI'lISq] – народное ополчение
replica ['replIkq] - точная копия
key [ki:] – основной, ведущий, главный
massacre ['mxsqkq] -резня, бойня
to shoot (shot) [Su:t] – стрелять, расстрелять
set [set] – установка, система, набор
tax [txks] - налог
hardly ['hQ:dlI] – едва, с трудом
aloft [q'lPft] - наверху
belfry ['belfrI] –колокольня, башня
arch [Q:tS] – свод, арка
shore [SO:] -берег
alarm [q'lQ:m] - сигнал
gloom [glu:m] – темнота, тьма
fate [feIt] – рок, судьба
Questions
1. Where is Boston located?
2. When was it founded?
3. How many states make up the region called New England?
4. If you went to Boston, would you go to a basketball game, baseball game or hockey game?
5. What would you do and see if you could visit Boston?
6. What were your thoughts when you read about Boston?
Atlanta, Georgia!
Hello, my name is Christy. Welcome to Atlanta, Georgia, my hometown and one of the most beautiful cities in the United States of America. Atlanta is the capital of Georgia. If you are planning a trip to Atlanta, look at the map and you will find it in the north central part of Georgia. Georgia is famous for its magnolia trees and beautiful flowers. Georgia’s motto is “Wisdom, justice, moderation.” Its state bird is a brown thrasher and its state flower is a Cherokee rose. Its territory is 58,056 square miles.
I am 15 years old. My favorite subject is science. My favorite museum is SciTrek, which is right here in Atlanta. You can touch everything in the museum! This year SciTrek will be offering a summer day camp. I will be attending the camp. I 'II learn about bats, rockets, new inventions, and more! It's so much fun at SciTrek. I can't believe I'm learning!
I am very interested in traveling and learning about different cultures. Like many big cities, Atlanta is multicultural. People from all over the world now call Atlanta home.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is my hero. Atlanta was his hometown too. He was brave. He wanted people of all races to march together for peace and love. He was a minister and his church is here in Atlanta. Dr. King once said:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character..."
Atlanta is the hometown of some famous companies, such as Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, and CNN. Pharmacist John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in 1886 and now it is the world's best-known soft drink. Did you know that it was a medicine? CNN reports the news all over the world. And you know a lot about Delta Air Lines.
Sports are very popular in Atlanta. Atlanta has a baseball and a basketball team.
You can learn about the history of Atlanta at the Atlanta History Center and Museum. They have exhibits on "Gone with the Wind," railroads, the American Civil War, and black history in Atlanta. Here are some "Gone with the Wind" souvenirs you can find in the museum. Have you read the book "Gone with the Wind?" The author of the book, Margaret Mitchell, was from Atlanta.