After You Read the Story
* I._Match the beginning of each sentence with its proper ending:
1. The first Americans ... a. ... from all walks of life.'
2. The first English colony b. .... immigrants or descendants in America ... ' of .immigrants -
3. Most families in America... c. ... were Indians.
4. Most Americans are ... d. ... was started at Jamestown
in 1607.
5. America is a nation e. ... are neither very rich nor of people... very poor.
II. Complete these sentences:
1. Most people in the United States respect ....
2. Most of Americans are descendants of people who ... -
3. Having courage means not being ...
4- Freedom from want means being sure of enough ... to eat and clothes to ...
5. The backbone of American way of life is ...
6. The opportunity to better oneself is ...
7. Everywhere in America churches, temples and synagogues are ...
Discussion
1. How can a person show respect for another person's religion?
2. Why do many people want to come to the United States?
The Liberty Bell
The Liberty Bell is a symbol of American independence. It was rung in 1776 to mark the signing of-the Declaration of Independence. The Liberty Bell cracked in 1835. You can see it in the Liberty Bell Pavilion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
UNIT II
The struggle for independence Before You Read the Story
This text describes how the first people who settled here worked ^and fought to live in freedom As you read you'll learn"
Why the early settlers in America left their mother country^
Why they wanted their independence"?
About some of the men who helped to make the nation free
Word Study
I Look up these words in the dictionary. ta&, to decide, lav-, to promise, success.
II Take into account the meanings of the following words.
1. settler — man who has come to one's place (location) to live for the first time
2. ruler ~ person (man) who governs
3. founded - started; built for the first time
4 to struggle - to fight
5 to exist — to live
6. to survive - to live after others died
7- to celebrate — to recognize and honour as a holiday
8. unemployed - man without work
9- to earn ~ to make money by working
10. to invest — to put money into something
11. to let - to give chance (possibility)
12. representative - delegate; a person sent to speak or act for
others
13 to elect - to choose (representatives) 14- to refuse - to be against doing smth
15. blessing - prayer
16. traitor — person who works against his own country
17. independence - freedom from control by others
18. trained - made ready and able to do smth
19. to excite - to make smb. be joyful or nervous
20. appointed — named to take a job
21. to adopt - to take as one's own 22- to declare - to make known openly
III. Read thg sentences and learn the meanings of the underlined
1. The Pilgrims came to America to worship God in their own way-2- The United States of America was founded in 1776.
3. The settlers who survived were thankful -
4. Thomas Jefferson wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.
5. The PiSigriras struggled to build S oraes for themselves.
6. A person chosen to do job for yc-; is your representative.
7. The colonists declared themselves to be free from Great Britain
Notes to the Text
1- to hold (held, held) a feast - to organise a holiday
2- have to pay - must pay 3. should fight - must fight